Susan Ohmer
William T. and Helen Kuhn Carey Associate Professor of Modern Communication
Office: 230B DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Phone: 574-631-7671
Email: sohmer@nd.edu
Areas of Expertise
Market research in media organizations, Hollywood film industry in the 1940s
Ohmer’s teaching concentrates on film and television in U.S. culture and her research focuses on the history and use of market research in media organizations. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, The Journal of Film and Video and Film History, and in the anthologies Identifying Hollywood’s Audiences, Global Currents, and American Cinema of the 1930s. Her book “George Gallup in Hollywood” assesses how film studios and producers used public opinion research to select and develop film subjects. Ohmer, who also is working on a study of the Walt Disney studio during the 1940s, has served as a member of the editorial board of Cinema Journal and an officer of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
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