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My specialties
of the moment are in film and narrative studies, both in theory
and in practice. I also have a background
in 19th Century British Literature and the legacy of Romanticism
in the Victorian period. My interest in film and narrative are
reflected in the courses that I have developed and taught: Fiction
into Film, Narration in Fiction and Film, Film Theory and Criticism,
Film Genres (the western, the musical, melodrama, the woman’s
film, film noir, the war film, the art film, horror), Film Auteurs
(Hitchcock, Bergman, Antonioni, Fellini, Allen, Scorsese, Renoir),
and a general course on film that stresses aesthetics, genre,
and ideology.
My publications
in film include adaptation studies on The Third Man, The
French Lieutenant’s Woman, David
Copperfield, and Short Cuts; gender/race and genre studies
on the Hollywood South
Seas film, Thelma and Louise, Chinatown, McCabe and Mrs. Miller,
The Deer Hunter, contemporary film noir, the Godfather films, and
the biopic; and Hollywood period history including Hollywood and
Vietnam in the 1970s and a book on Radical Visions: American Film
Renaissance, 1967-1976.
Forthcoming
articles are “1975: Film and Conflicting Ideologies” in
the 1970s volume of the Screen Decades Series published by Rutgers; “Short
Cuts to Gosford Park: The Family in Robert Altman” in an
anthology All in the Family: The Family in Film published by Wallflower
Press; and “Narration and Characterization in the Multi-Protagonist
Film” in a special issue of montage/av, a European journal.
Presently, I am editing an anthology of essays on the multi-protagonist
film narrative/genre.
I am a member
of the Modern Language Association and the Society for Cinema
and Media Studies. I presently serve on the Teaching
Committee of SCMS, which promotes the pedagogy of film in schools
and universities and processes the Society’s annual Teaching
Award.
I was English
Department Chair from 1992 to 2001. And I served as Resident
Director of the UH-Manoa’s Study
Abroad Program in London in Spring 2002 and in Spring 2006.
Areas of Interest
Film, Narrative, 19th Century British Literature
Education
BA , MA,, PhD, University of Notre Dame
Awards
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature Excellence in Teaching
Award, 1989
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