Mary Dalton
Professor of Communication
Dalton can put new TV shows in perspective and provide insightful comments about the latest feature films.
Biography
Mary Dalton is a Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television and The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies. Dalton has also tracked the history of the situation comedy in her edited volume The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed. She has… Read More »
Mary Dalton is a Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television and The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies. Dalton has also tracked the history of the situation comedy in her edited volume The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed. She has written and directed nine documentaries, including Martha in Lattimore about the life of Martha Mason, who lived in an iron lung for most of her life, and most recently Living in the Overlap, a love story that advocates for marriage equality.
Media Appearances
Halloween means...movies
HuffPost
October 28, 2014
Where I’m from, Halloween means cool nights, brilliant foliage and crisp apples, but everywhere it means scary movies. Lately, I’ve been thinking about my scariest viewing experiences.
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Areas of Expertise
- Documentary Films
- Film
- Film Criticism
- Film Production
- Hollywood Movies
- Screenwriting
- Teachers in Movies and Television
- Television Situational Comedies
- Women in Film
Education
University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Ph.D., Cultural Studies
University of North Carolina at Greensboro: M.A., Broadcasting / Cinema
Wake Forest University: B.A., Speech, Communication, and Theatre Arts
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