Faculty Essays and Articles

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. 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 […]