Professor Emeritus of Media & Cinema Studies Education Research and Creative Endeavor Peabody Award-winning documentary producer, director, writer, and editor Contact jrosenst@illinois.edu
Category: Media & Cinema Studies
Ann Reisner
Associate Professor Emerita of Media & Cinema Studies Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Dr. Ann Reisner is an Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies, the Institute of Communications Research and an affiliate in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Her primary research interests are in the areas of […]
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski
Associate Professor of Media & Cinema Studies Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background My research explores the history of film style and craft, Franco-American cinema and its transnational intersections, the musical genre, movement and the body on screen, the relationship between dance and film history, methods for movement analysis, and videographic criticism. My first book, Storytelling […]
Derek Long
Associate Professor of Media & Cinema Studies Education Course Specialties Background Derek Long is a historian of media industries, specializing in the Hollywood studio system, film distribution, and digital approaches to cinema history. His first book, Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System (University of Texas Press, 2024), examines the history of film […]
Josh Heuman
Senior Lecturer of Journalism Senior Lecturer of Media & Cinema Studies Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Heuman’s research explores media industries and regulation (especially television), with an emphasis on the regulation of media work. His different projects come together in a concern for the cultural life of media industries and their regulation (from content regulation […]
James Hay
Interim Department Head of Media & Cinema StudiesProfessor of Communications (Department of Media & Cinema Studies and Institute of Communications Research) Education Affiliations Course Specialties Research and Creative Endeavor My research concerns a wide variety of media and contexts—from popular media of the 20th century (cinema, television, telephony, radio) to “new media” and forms of […]
Victor Font
Senior Lecturer of Media & Cinema Studies Education Course Specialties Background Victor Font founded his own audiovisual company in the ’90s. He has been in the production business for more than 25 years. As principal of Prodimag his professional work has involved direction, production, postproduction, and services for worldwide production companies. In 2004 he founded […]
CL Cole
Professor of Media & Cinema Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Cole is the co-editor of “Women, Sport & Culture” (with Susan Birrell) and “Sport and Corporate Nationalisms” (with Michael Silk and David Andrews). She is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled “Good Sports? The Boundaries of American Democracy.” […]
Amanda Ciafone
Associate Professor of Media & Cinema StudiesDirector of Graduate Studies for the Institute of Communications Research Education Affiliations Awards Research and Creative Endeavor Amanda Ciafone is a cultural historian of capitalism, especially interested in culture industries and the role of the media in constructing meaning around economic and social relations. Her research and teaching is […]
Anita Say Chan
Professor of Media & Cinema Studies Education Affiliations Course Specialties Research and Creative Endeavor Anita Say Chan is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences and Department of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research and teaching interests include globalization and digital cultures, innovation networks and the “periphery”, science […]