History Through a Filmmaker's Lens

History Through a Filmmaker's Lens
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Patricia King Hanson

Patricia King Hanson is executive editor and project director of the multi-volume AFI Catalog of Feature Films, published by the University of California Press, and has held that position since coming to the American Film Institute in 1983. After receiving a bachelor{A146}s degree in Italian and master{A146}s degrees in History and Library Science from the University of Southern California, Hanson became history bibliographer at the USC Library, and then became an editor with Salem Press. She was associate editor of several publications, including the multi-volume Magill{A146}s Survey of Cinema, Bibliography of Literary Criticism and Cinema Annual. Often collaborating with her husband, Hanson has contributed dozens of articles on film to magazines, including British publications Flicks, Stills, The Listener and Moving Pictures International, and was a film reviewer for the British trade publication Screen International in the late 1980s.

Hanson, who has had a life-long love of film, has also contributed to a number of film reference books, including The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers and Prima dei codici. Her publications also include co-authoring the two-volume Film Review Index, Lights, Camera, Action! and The Sourcebook for the Performing Arts. She has been quoted on current films and film history in numerous newspapers, among them The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Daily News, and has been an on-air expert on film for MSNBC and CNN.

Hanson lives in Southern California with her husband Stephen and their son David, who is currently a student at USC.

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