Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 in English/film studies (dissertation - The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and, Genre). A book based on this project, called War Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and B...
Professor Landsberg is a scholar in the field of memory studies. Her book, Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (Columbia UP, 2004) considers the way in which individuals are increasingly able to take on memories of events they did not live through...
Lisa Rabin is Associate Professor of Spanish at George Mason University, where she teaches Spanish-language film, media and cultural studies in the Department of Modern & Classical Languages and is an affiliate of the Cultural Studies Program. She received her B.A. in Spanish & French from ...
Martin M. Winkler is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Classics. His classical education began in Münster, Germany, at the Gymnasium Paulinum, founded A.D. 797. His books are The Persona in Three Satires of Juvenal (1983), Der lateinische Eulenspiegel des Ioannes Nemius (1995; reiss...
Nathaniel Greenberg is an Associate Professor of Arabic in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University. Focusing on the intersection of literature, media, and politics in the modern Middle East and North Africa, Greenberg is the author of several books including most r...
Hatim El-Hibri is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on global and transnational media studies, visual culture studies, Lebanon and the Middle East, urban studies, television studies, and media theory and history. His first book, Visions of Bei...
Jessica Scarlata is an associate professor of English and film and media studies and the director of the Screen Cultures minor (formerly Film and Media Studies) in CHSS. Her work addresses questions of incarceration, contested geographies and memories, and an approach to globalization that emphasizes...
Research Capstone Course This course explores the near-ubiquitous presence of melodramatic form in modern culture. It will examine melodrama to open up critical questions about the inter-relationship of politics, aesthetics, social injustice, and the place of media in society. The course will draw o...
This course is designed to give you expertise in audio-visual/narrative analysis and introduce you to key methods in the field of cinema studies. You will learn terminology for film’s stylistic and narrative elements, how to identify those elements, and how to analyze the ways that they can make mean...