Film and Digital Media
2012-13 General Catalog
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Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Sharon Daniel
Community-based public art in information and communications environments, social and political aspects of information technology, new media documentary and database documentary, participatory culture, digital inclusion, net art, human-computer interface design
Eli E. Hollander
Film and video directing; ethnographic documentary directing, editing, cinematography, and videography; digital image generation; screenwriting
Charles L. Lord, Professor Emeritus
Margaret Morse, Emerita
B. Ruby Rich
Documentary film and video, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latina/o cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, film festival studies, and the making/marketing of foreign films in the U.S.
Warren Sack
Software design and media theory
Shelley Stamp
Film history, theory, and criticism; silent cinema; women's filmmaking; film censorship; histories of moviegoing; feminist approaches to cinema
Renee Tajima-Peña
Documentary film, video, and interactive web projects focusing on Asian Americans, immigrants, communities of color, women, media, and social change
Associate Professor
Lawrence Andrews
Film, video, installation and media art
Irene Gustafson
Producing across the boundaries between "theory" and "practice," non-fiction media, experimental film/video, production design, gender and queer studies
Jonathan Kahana
Documentary film and media; film and politics; American film history; essay film; cultural and social theory; media publics; arts of historical re-enactment; war and cultural memory; audio culture; disciplines of listening
L. S. Kim
Television history and theory, racial discourse, feminist criticism, Asian-American media production, industrial practices and social change in both mainstream Hollywood and alternative media
Peter Limbrick
International cinemas, especially Australasian, Middle Eastern, and Arab cinemas; film and video history and historiography; theories of globalization, transnationalism, and postcoloniality; intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; queer theory
Gustavo Vazquez
Film and video production, directing drama, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in film, film curator
Assistant Professor
Jennifer Horne
Media citizenship; non-theatrical film and film exhibition; archives and technologies of information; film preservation; mass media and humanitarianism; cinema and media history and historiography; institutions, disciplinarity, and the politics of knowledge
John Jota Leaños
Social documentation, social art practice, community arts, documentary animation, Chicana/o art practice and cultural studies, media and cultural studies, subaltern studies, photography, installation art, public art and intervention
Irene Lusztig
Film and video production, experimental ethnography and essayistic nonfiction; representations of historical memory; archives, propaganda and training films; feminist film practices; medical film; autobiographical filmmaking; interactive documentary; editing
Soraya Murray
New media art, theory, and criticism; visual culture including digital, film, video, and electronic games; theories of technology and globalization; representation of otherness, migration, citizenship
Yiman Wang
Film history and theory; colonial/semi-colonial/postcolonial/postsocialist modes of media production and exchange; border-crossing film remakes; silent cinema; translation theory and cinema; acting theory/practice and ethnic star studies; transnational connections and ramifications of Chinese cinema and documentary; fan culture; East Asian cinemas
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Professor
Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Emerita, Literature
Teresa de Lauretis, Emerita, History of Consciousness
Rosa Linda Fregoso, Latin American and Latino Studies
Human-rights studies; intercultural and transborder feminism; cultural studies; Latina/o-Latino Américan film and media arts
Herman S. Gray, Sociology
Cultural studies, media and television studies, black cultural politics, social theory
Donna J. Haraway, Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
David S. Marriott, History of Consciousness
Literary theory, psychoanalysis, black cultural theory and philosophies of race, literary and visual cultures of modernism
Assistant Professor
Neda Atanasoski, Feminist Studies
U.S. and Eastern European film and media; cultural studies and critical theory; war and nationalism; gender, ethnicity, and religion
Revised: 8/13/12
