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 Arkansas-Little Rock
Brandon Colvin (2018)
Making It Real: Performance Styles and Contexts in Contemporary American Microbudget Cinema
University of Arkansas-Little Rock
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
University of Texas-Austin
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
John Powers (2016)
Conjuror’s box: technology and aesthetics in postwar American avant-garde cinema
Washington University, 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
Maria Belodubrovskaya (2011)
Politically Incorrect: Filmmaking under Stalin and the Failure of Power
Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago
Colin Burnett (2011)
The Invention of Robert Bresson: Style and Taste in the French Cultural Market for Quality Cinema, 1934–1959
Washington University in St. Louis
Billy Budd Vermillion (2011)
Art Cinema in Eastern Europe, 1956-1981
University of Illinois
Pearl Latteier (2010)
The Hollywood Social Problem Film, 1946-1959
Johnson Health Tech
Charlie Michael (2010)
French Blockbusters: Globalization, National Cinema and the Discourses of ‘Cultural Diversity’
Bradley Schauer (2010)
Science Fiction and the Exploitation Tradition in Hollywood, 1950-1986
University of Arizona
David Resha (2010)
The Cinema of Errol Morris
Birmingham-Southern College
Dissertation Theses Currently Under Preparation
Megan Boyd
Legitimizing Laughter: The Rise of Feature Comedy
Kait Fyfe
Weaving with a Finer Thread: Editing in the Era of Intensified Continuity
Casey Long
Linguistic Tools for the Analysis of Vocal Performance in Hollywood, 1931-1948
Matt St John
The American Festival System
Zach Zahos
Art House Film Distribution in the Digital Age: Selling Global Cinema and Classic Movies