Prof. Alex Denison in Film Quarterly
Prof. Alex Denison’s review on Michael Zryd’s new book Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema was published in the Winter 2024 Issue of Film Quarterly. See below an extract from Prof. Denison’s review. “Hollis Frampton is one of the most recognizable names in American avant-garde cinema. Yet, despite the abundance of literature on Frampton’s life […]
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 […]
Prof. Schwartz Publishes Article in “Morphology and Historical Sequence”
Professor Peter Schwartz recently published an article titled, Rube Stories and Paradigmatic Crimes as Narrative Modulators at Thresholds of Cultural Change.” in Roberto Gilodi and Luigi Marfè, ed., Morphology and Historical Sequence. Cosmo: Comparative Studies in Modernism.
Prof. Foltz Publishes Article on Film Novelizations
In the most recent issue of Modernism/modernity, Prof. Jonathan Foltz has published new research on the neglected literary genre of the film novelization. In the article, Prof. Foltz details the historical origins of the genre as a commercial product, and proceeds to consider the formal and generic questions afflicting the novelization as a distressed re-mediation […]
Frederick Publishes Article in “Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media”
Professor Sarah Frederick has published an article titled Girls’ magazines and the creation of ‘shōjo’ identities in the first edition of the “Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media” The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media is a comprehensive study of the key contemporary issues and scholarly discussions around Japanese media. Covering a wide variety of forms and types from newspapers, television […]
Prof. Schwartz Publishes Article in “New German Critique”
Professor Peter Schwartz has recently published an article titled Aby Warburg and Cinema, Revisited in “New German Critique”.
Prof. Frederick Publishes Essay in “Testing the Margins of Leisure: Case Studies on China, Japan, and Indonesia”
Professor Sarah Frederick has published an essay titled The Leisure of Girls and Mothers: Affective Labor, Leisure, and Taste in the Transnational and Transmedia Adaptations of Stella Dallas in “Testing the Margins of Leisure: Case Studies on China, Japan, and Indonesia”
Prof. Golder Publishes Essay in “Transcendence and Film: Cinematic Encounters with the Real”
Professor Herbert Golder published an article on his film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, titled, “Transcendence and Tragedy in My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done,”
Prof. Foltz Publishes New Research on Digital Cinema
In the most recent issue of Critical Quarterly, Prof. Jonathan Foltz has published new research on the aesthetics of digital video in Harmony Korine’s singular film julien donkey-boy. Prof. Foltz shows how the film, by exploiting the noise and flatness of its DV images, suggests a re-evaluation of the aesthetics of digital cinema, so […]
Golder Publishes Article, “Shooting on the Lam”
Professor Herbert Golder publishes article “Shooting on the Lam,” in Werner Herzog’s collection A Guide For The Perplexed