Film and Visual Culture
Film and visual culture encourages students to think about film and visual culture in its relationship to modern cultural politics and within the history of representational technologies and perceptual regimes. Animated by cross-disciplinary theoretical work and covering a range of media—including cinema and pre-cinematic visual technologies, photography, painting, architecture, graphic and digital media, and literature—research in this field foregrounds questions pertaining to vision, embodiment, and modern subjectivity; theories of realism and mimesis; politics and mass media; the visualization of space, time, and movement in literature and the other arts; and literary forms as they construct, anticipate, or respond to the filmic registers of modern experience.
Faculty working in film and visual culture include Jennifer Fay, Ken Harrow, Scott Juengel, Ellen McCallum, Justus Nieland, Patrick O’Donnell, Stephen Rachman, Judith Roof, Karl Schoonover, Judith Stoddart, Bill Vincent, and Jeff Wray.
