Katherine Spring
Associate Professor, English and Film Studies
kspring@wlu.ca
Waterloo, Ontario
Faculty of Arts
Katherine Spring is an expert in American cinema, American film history, electronic music in film, film sound and music, film technologies and industries, Hollywood transition to sound and soundtrack design in the 1920s and 1980s.
Areas of Expertise
- Film Studies and Cinema
- Sound, Music and FIlm
Biography
I received my PhD and MA in Communication Arts (Film Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and my Honours BSc in Physics and Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto.
The main focus of my research is film sound and music. I’m interested especially in how changing technologies and industries have influenced the composition of film music and soundtrack design during two historical phenomena: Hollywood’s transition to sound in the late 1920s and the global diffusion of music synthesizers in the 1980s. I’m now working on a book-length history of electronic music in American cinema.