Prof. Jonathan Foltz Publishes “Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richard’s Screen Tests” with Duke University Press
Prof. Foltz, Director of Cinema & Media Studies, has recently published his his article, “Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richard’s Screen Tests” with Duke University Press, Modern Language Quarterly on November 17th, 2023.
From the Abstract: “This article explores the overlapping histories of close reading and mass media by attending to the late-career film and television experiments of I. A. Richards. A lifelong critic of the entertainment industry and (arguably reactionary) media theorist, Richards also spent decades experimenting with the exacting and humbling realities of media production. Spanning his abandoned collaboration with Disney, a series of Basic English teaching films (made with the artist and filmmaker Len Lye), his two educational television programs on poetry, and a number of unrealized television adaptations of Plato and Homer, this article surveys the extensive and ambivalent record of Richards’s ventures into media production.”
Members of the BU community can access it on Duke University Press via BU Libraries.