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Ashley R. Smith

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BA, summa cum laude, baccalaureate honors, English, 2009, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ; MA, Cinema Studies, 2012, New York University, New York; PhD, Screen Cultures, (anticipated) 2019, Northwestern University, Evanston. Selected Conferences: Society of Cinema and Media Studies; Film & History; Orphans Midwest; Backward Glances. Selected Invited Presentations: “Wilderness, Maniacs, and the Abjecting of the Rural Other,” Northwestern University, Evanston. February 2018. “Grittier and Grungier: New American Horror and the 1970s.” Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. November 2017.

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Description

These classes examine film genres such as (but not limited to) The Western, Film Noir, Science Fiction, Horror, Romance, and Screwball Comedy. Each course illuminates the defining characteristics of the particular genre by establishing its narrative conventions, its influences in literature, art and other film genres. These courses discuss the conventions of the genre's visual style and its relationship to popular culture and social upheaval.

Class Number

2187

Credits

3