Areas of Study:
 
 
 
   
     
 
Film and Media Studies

Several faculty members concentrate on the theoretical and cultural dimensions of images with a particular emphasis on the rhetoric of contemporary media. The fields we offer in this area include film theory and criticism, photography, pornography, representations of race, gender and media, and spectatorship.		  
 
     
 

Faculty

Carol Clover, Emerita
Popular culture

Kaja Silverman
Film theory; photography

Trinh T. Minh-ha
Film theory and practice; aesthetics

Linda Williams
Melodrama and pornography; genre

David Cohen
Japanese cinema

Anton Kaes, Affiliated faculty
German cinema; film theory