Film and Digital Media

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Charles L. Lord
Film and video directing and editing, video theory and history, video installation, screenwriting, documentary production

Margaret Morse
Digital and electronic media theory and criticism, media art, media history, technology and culture, film history and theory, German cinema, documentary, science fiction, and silent comedy

Associate Professor

Lawrence Andrews
Film, video, installation and media art

Sharon Daniel
Community-based public art in information and communications environments, social and political aspects of information technology, community networks, participatory culture, digital inclusion, net art, human-computer interface design

Amelie Hastie
Film theory and history, feminist film and television studies, Chinese cinemas, issues of authorship, interdisciplinary approaches

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

Assistant Professor

David Crane
Film and media theory, discourses on technology, digital culture, experimental media, critical and psychoanalytic theory

Irene Gustafson
Producing across the boundaries between "theory" and "practice," non-fiction, gender and queer studies, production design

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; intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; theories of globalization, transnationalism, and postcoloniality; queer theory

Gustavo Vazquez
Film and video production, directing drama, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in film, film curator

Yiman Wang
Film history and theory; border-crossing film remakes; silent cinema; translation theory and cinema; star study; Chinese language cinemas and documentary; East Asian cinemas; Internet culture

Professor

Teresa de Lauretis, History of Consciousness
Semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, film theory, literary theory, queer studies

Rosa Linda Fregoso, Latin American and Latino Studies
Cultural studies, transnational feminist theories, Chicana/o and Latina/o cinema, issues of human rights and gender violence

Herman S. Gray, Sociology
Cultural studies, media and television studies, black cultural politics, social theory

Donna J. Haraway, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Feminist theory, cultural and historical studies of science and technology, relation of life and human sciences, human-animal relations, and animal studies

B. Ruby Rich, Community Studies
Documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latin/a cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, the politics of film festival proliferation and the marketing of foreign films in the U.S.

Associate Professor

David S. Marriott, History of Consciousness
Literary theory, psychoanalysis, black cultural theory and philosophies of race, literary and visual cultures of modernism

Renee Tajima-Peña, Community Studies
Documentary film and video focusing on Asian American and immigrant communities, media, and social change