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COMS 885 – Popular Culture

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Editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies

Co-investigator, Advanced Research Team on the History and Epistemology of Moving Image Studies

Charles R Acland

Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies

BA, Commerce (Economics and Marketing), Carleton University

PhD, Institute of Communications Research (Cultural Studies), University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Postdoc, Media Studies, Concordia University

Areas of Research:

Media and Cultural Theory, Film and Television Studies, Cultural History, Visual Technology, Taste Formations

Selected Publications:

Books

2012, Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence, Duke University Press, pp. 328.

2011, Useful Cinema, edited with Haidee Wasson, Duke University Press, pp. 386.

2007, Residual Media, an edited collection, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 416.

2003, Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture. Duke U. Press, pp 337. Winner of the 2004 Robinson Book Prize for Best Book by a Canadian Communication Scholar.

1999, Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions, edited with William Buxton, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s U. Press, pp. 435.

1995, Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of “Youth in Crisis,” Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, pp. 176.

Book Chapters

2011, “Celluloid Classrooms: Post-WWII Consolidation of Community Film Activism,” in Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States, eds. Dan Streible, Marsha Ogeron, and Devin Ogeron, Oxford UP, 377-396.

2011, “Hollywood’s Educators: Mark May and Teaching Film Custodians,” in Useful Cinema, eds. Charles R. Acland and Haidee Wasson, Duke UP, 59-80.

2011, “Utility and Cinema,” co-authored with Haidee Wasson, in Useful Cinema, eds. C. Acland and H. Wasson, Duke UP, 1-14.

2009, “Screen Technology, Mobilization, and Adult Education in the 1950,” in Patronizing the Public: American Philanthropy’s Transformation of Culture, Communication, and the Humanities, ed. William J. Buxton, Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield/Lexington Books, 261-279.

2008, “Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Reconstructing Cultural Authority and The Film Council Movement, 1946-1957,” in Inventing Film Studies, edited by Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, Durham: Duke University Press, 149-181.

2008, “Theatrical Exhibition: Accelerated Cinema,” in The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry, eds. Paul McDonald and Janet Wasko, London: Blackwell Press, 83-105.

2007, “‘Opening Everywhere’: Multiplexes, E-Cinema and the Speed of Cinema Culture,” in Hollywood and the Social Experience of Movie-going, eds. Robert Allen, Richard Maltby and Melvyn Stokes, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2007, 364-382 and 462-467.

2007, “Theatrical Exhibition: Accelerated Cinema,” in The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry, eds. Paul McDonald and Janet Wasko, London: Blackwell Press, 2008, 83-105.

2007, “Residual Media ” An Introduction,” in Residual Media, ed. Charles Acland, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, xiii-xxvii.

2007, “The Swift View: Tachistoscopes and the Residual Modern,” in Residual Media, ed. Charles Acland, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, 361-384.

2002, “Screen Space, Screen Time and Canadian Film Exhibition,” in North of Everything: An English-Canadian Film Reader, eds. W. Beard and J. White, Edmonton: U. of Alberta Press, pp. 2-18.

2001, “From Absent Audience to Expo-Mentality,” in A Passion for Identity: Canadian Studies for the 21st Century, 4th edition, edited by David Taras and Beverly Rasporich, Toronto: Nelson, pp. 275-291.

2000, “Fresh Contacts: Global Culture and the Concept of Generation,” The Radiant Hour: Versions of Youth in American Culture, ed. Neil Campbell, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, pp. 31-52.

Refereed Journal Articles

2009, “Curtains, Carts and the Mobile Screen,” Screen, 50.1, 148-166. Winner of the 2010 Kovacs Prize for Best Essay, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

2006, “Harold Innis, Cultural Policy, and Residual Media,” International Journal of Cultural Policy, 12.2: 171-185.

2004, “Moore Than This: Fahrenheit 9/11, Screen Numbers, and Political Community,” Environmental Planning D: Society and Space, 22: 901-906.

2003, “Haunted Places: Montreal’s Rue Ste. Catherine and its Cinema Spaces,” Screen, 44.2.

2001, “Patterns of Cultural Authority: The National Film Society of Canada and the Institutionalization of Film Education, 1938-41,” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 10.1: pp. 2-27.

2000, “Cinemagoing and the Rise of the Megaplex,” Television and New Media 1.4: pp. 375-402.

Non-Refereed Articles

2011, “Avatar as Technological Tentpole,” FlowTV, 13.14, “Flow Favorites Special Issue,” www.flowtv.org. Reprint from issue 11.05.

2011, “You Haven’t Seen Avatar Yet,” FlowTV, 13.08, www.flowtv.org.

2010, “Everybody Knows,” FlowTV, 13.03, www.flowtv.org.

2010, “Marshall’s Children,” FlowTV, 11.08, www.flowtv.org.

2009, “The Last Days of Videotape,” FlowTV, 11.02, www.flowtv.org.

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