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“Not Just an Actor: Socially Conscious Stardom and the Rise of the Postwar Actor-Producer”
Thomas Brami (2025)
“Framing Australian Landscape in the Globally Dispersed Film Industry”
Zachary Zahos (2024)
“Meaning in the Margins: Boutique Distribution and the Contemporary Art House Film Market”
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
David Vanden Bossche (2024)
“Man and Camera become One – The First Twenty Years of Steadicam: Analyzing the influence of the Steadicam on camera movement in American Cinema (1974-94)”
Erica Moulton (2023)
“From Bestseller to the Big Screen: The Acquisition and Development of Popular Novels in Classical Hollywood”
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Matt St. John (2023)
“United Slates: The Evolution of the American Film Festival System”
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
JJ Bersch (2022)
“Pack Your Product’s Bags, It’s Going Hollywood: Explaining the Mainstream Emergence of Cinematic Product Placement in the 1980s”
Blank Check podcast
Luke Holmaas (2022)
“The Best Gag in the Picture: Gag-Based Comedy’s Adaptability in Blockbuster-Era Hollywood Cinema”
Hamidreza Nassiri (2022)
“Iranian Cinema in the Digital Era: The Implications of Digital Technologies on Local and Global Power Relations in Film and Media Industries”
Fordham University
Megan Boyd (2021)
“Legitimizing Laughter: The Rise of Feature Comedy”
University of Cincinnati
Maureen Rogers (2020)
“Getting in on the Act: How Exploitation Cinema Remade the New Hollywood (and Vice Versa)”
Shapiro & Raj
Jonah Horwitz (2019)
“Live Television Drama and Its Cinematic Legacies”
University of Pittsburgh
Nora Stone (2018)
“Marketing the Real: The Creation of a Multilayered Market for Documentary Cinema”
University of North Alabama
Brandon Colvin (2018)
“Making It Real: Performance Styles and Contexts in Contemporary American Microbudget Cinema”
University of Alabama
Matt Connolly (2018)
“Underground Exploiteer: John Waters and the Development of a Directorial Brand, 1964-1981”
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Eric Dienstfrey (2018)
“The Stereo Impulse: High Fidelity Cinema and the Making of Modern Surround Sound Aesthetics”
Ursinus College
Derek Long (2017)
“Reprogramming the movies: distribution strategy and production planning in the early studio system, 1915-1924”
University of Illinois
Chelsea McCracken (2017)
“Riding the Gay New Wave into New Queer Cinema: revealing the contexts that created a movement”
State University of New York, Oneonta
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski (2017)
“An aesthetic of contradictions: Jacques Demy, Choreography, and the musical genre”
University of Illinois
Booth Wilson (2017)
“The most European cinema: Yakov Protazanov across borders, 1909-1930”
Shenzhen University, China
Amanda McQueen (2016)
“After ‘the Golden Age’: an industrial history of the Hollywood musical, 1955-1975”
New York University
John Powers (2016)
“Conjuror’s box: technology and aesthetics in postwar American avant-garde cinema”
Washington University in St. Louis
Andrea Comiskey (2015)
“The Sticks, the Nabes, and the Broadways: U.S. Film Distribution, 1935-1940”
Franklin & Marshall College
Heather Heckman (2014)
“Undervalued Stock: Eastman Color’s Innovation and Diffusion, 1900-1957”
University of South Carolina
Mark Minett (2013)
“Expanding the Standard Story: Rethinking ‘Early Altman’ and the Elaboration of Classical Hollywood Storytelling”
University of South Carolina