Film and Digital Media

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

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

Eli E. Hollander
Film and video directing; ethnographic documentary directing, editing, cinematography, and videography; digital image generation; screenwriting

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

Shelley Stamp
Film history, theory, and criticism; silent cinema; women's filmmaking; film censorship; histories of moviegoing; feminist approaches to cinema

Associate Professor

Lawrence Andrews
Film, video, installation and media art

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

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

Warren Sack
Software design and media theory

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

Assistant Professor

Caetlin Benson-Allott
Distribution studies; technology and culture; film history and theory; new media studies; queer and feminist theory; horror.

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 media, experimental film/video, production design, gender and queer studies

Peter Limbrick
International cinemas; intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; theories of globalization, transnationalism, and postcoloniality; queer theory

Irene Lusztig
Film and Digital Media
video production, experimental documentary, ethnographic film, autobiographical film, editing

Yiman Wang
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; cybernetic fan culture

Professor

Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Literature
Twentieth- and 21st-century Latin(o) American visual media, particularly film; melodrama as a transnational form; gender and authorship; history, cultures, and representations of California , particularly the Central Coast

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

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

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