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Field-Of-Study: Film, Video and Radio Studies
Donald Crafton
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies stated, when conferring the Award of Distinction in the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship on Donald Crafton’s Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation (2013), that “This study takes us on a deep and provocative journey through cinematic animation through the concept of ‘animation performativity.’ Blending
Emily Thompson
Emily Thompson is a historian of technology who studies late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Her research explores the cultural history of sound, music, noise, and listening, and she focuses on how these phenomena and activities intersected with technologies like the phonograph, motion pictures, and architecture. Before she became a historian, Thompson worked as a
André Gaudreault
André Gaudreault (b. 1952) holds a Ph.D. in cinema from Université Paris 3–Sorbonne Nouvelle (1983). He is a full professor in the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques at the Université de Montréal, where he heads the research group GRAFICS (Groupe de recherche sur l’avènement et la formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique—Research Group
Yomi Braester
Yomi Braester is a scholar of modern literary and visual culture, with a special interest in China since 1949. After earning a Ph..D in Comparative Literature at Yale University in 1998, he was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley (1997–1998), taught at the University of Georgia (1998–2000), and is now Professor of Comparative Literature and
Steven Ungar
Following studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cornell University, Steven Ungar’s teaching and research at Case Western Reserve and at Iowa have increasingly engaged topics in philosophy, history, and film linked to 19th- through 21st-century French literature. A 1981 Camargo Foundation Fellowship supported completion of Ungar’s first book, Roland Barthes: The Professor of Desire
Heather Hendershot
Heather Hendershot is the Coordinator of the Film Studies Certificate Program at The Graduate Center and a professor in the Media Studies department at Queens College. She is also a member of the Ph.D. Program in Theater at the Graduate Center. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and her B.A. from Yale
James Naremore
James Naremore is Chancellors’ Professor Emeritus of Communication and Culture, English, and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. His research, which centers on classic Hollywood cinema and modernist literature, is concerned with questions of style, cultural politics, and ideology. A former Asa Mellon Bruce Fellow of the National Gallery of Art, he has lectured widely in