Recent PhDs - Film

Katherine Spring. Say it with Songs: Popular Music in Hollywood Cinema During the Transition to Sound, 1927-1931.
First job: Wilfrid Laurier University

Kevin Hagopian. Hollywood Restoration: The American Film Industry and the Culture of American Affirmation, 1936-1945 (2006). Balio.
First job: Penn State.

Jonathan Frome. Why films Make us Cry But Videogames Don't: Emotions in Traditional and Interactive Media (2006).  Bordwell.
First job: School of Film and Digital Media, University of Central Florida.

Ethan Robert DeSeife.  Cheerful Nihilism: The Films of Frank Tashlin (2005). Jacobs (chair)
First job: Wesleyan

Michael Zvi Newman.  Characterization in American Independent Cinema (2005).  Bordwell (chair).
First job: UW - Milwaukee.

Jonathan Christopher Walley.  Paracinema: Challenging Medium-Specificity and Re-Defining Cinema in Avant-Garde Film (2005).  Murphy (chair).
First job: Denison University.

Hideaki Fujiki.  Multiplying Personas: The Formation of Film Stars in Modern Japan (2004).  Singer (chair)
First job: Nagoya University.

James Leo Kreul. Up From Underground: American Independent Film Distribution and Exhibition 1950-1970 (2004).  Murphy (chair).
First job: University of North Carolina - Wilmington.

Patrick Keating. The Rhetoric of Light: Discourse and Practice in Hollywood Cinematography, 1931-1940 (2004). Bordwell (chair)
First job: Washington University of St. Louis.

Christopher Sieving. Soul Searching: African American Culture Before Blaxploitation, 1963-1970 (2004). Balio
First job: University of Notre Dame.

Jinhee Choi. Corporate Affluence, Cultural Exuberance: A Korean Film Renaissance and the 386 Generation Directors (2004). Bordwell (chair).
First job: Carleton University.

Timothy Palmer. Tales of the Underworld: Jean-Pierre Melville and 1950s French Cinema (2003). Conway (chair).
First job: University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

Jane Greene. The Road to Reno: Censorship, Screwball and Comedies of Remarriage, 1930-1942 (2003). Jacobs (chair).
First job: Southern Methodist University.

James Udden. Hou Hsaio-hsien and the Aesthetics of Historical Experience (2003). Bordwell (chair).
First job: Gettysburg College.

Paul Ramaeker. A New Kind of Movie: Style and Form in Hollywood Cinema 1965-1988 (2002). Bordwell (chair).
First job: Sweet Briar College.

Panayiota Mini. Pudovkin's Cinema of the 1920s (2002). Kepley (chair).
First job: Institute of Mediterranean Studies (Greece).

Lisa Dombrowski. "If You Die, I'll Kill You!" Samuel Fuller In and Out of the Studio System (2002). Jacobs (chair).
First job: Wesleyan University.

Christine Becker. An Industrial History of Established Hollywood Film Actors on Fifties Prime Time Television (2001). Jacobs (chair).
First job: University of Notre Dame.

Jennifer Fay. The Business of Cultural Diplomacy: American Film Policy in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 (2001). Kepley (chair).
First job: Michigan State University.

Scott Higgins. Harnessing the Rainbow: Technicolor Aesthetics in the 1930s (2000). Jacobs (chair)
First job: Wesleyan University.

Sara Ross. The Hollywood Flapper, 1920-1930 (2000). Jacobs (chair).
First job: Southern Methodist University.

See also:
Communication Science
Media & Cultural Studies