By examining the history of the sound newsreel in the 1930s and 1940s, this dissertation illustrates how moving picture news changed the way Americans experienced …
This dissertation examines how producer-distributor trade organizations contributed to the emergence of the American studio system during the 1910s and 1920s. Established to oppose censorship …
This dissertation argues that the everyday is a phenomenon invented along with capitalist modernity and modern technologies of representation, and that cinema is one of …
This dissertation provides a critical and materialist account of the history of the media interview. Starting with Henry Mayhew’s use of the interview to investigate …
Laughter has a material history. In my dissertation, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes," I argue that comedy has haunted the emergence of cinema …
This dissertation examines the shifts in reproduction, knowledge, and power that remap our notion of "life" in contemporary scientific and popular cultures through the uncanny …