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To all,
After over thirty five years at our fair institution, Professor Emeritus George Semsel, noted film scholar and filmmaker, is teaching his last courses at Ohio University.
Dr. Semsel, an experimentalist given to personal works akin to poetry, has been making films since 1953. During the Underground Film Movement of the 1960's, he was associated with Marie Menken and Willard Maas in the Gryphon Film Group. In 1984, Dr. Semsel spent a year working in the Chinese film industry under the Ministry of Culture. His first Fulbright sent him to Thailand, and his second had him teaching modern American literature and film at Shandong University in the People's Republic of China. A major pioneer of Chinese film studies, Dr. Semsel published the first book on the subject following the cultural revolution, and in two others introduced Chinese film theory to the U.S.
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