Aubrey Anable
Research Highlights
Anable’s research is broadly concerned with film and media aesthetics in North America after 1945, with an emphasis on the ways digital computers have changed visual culture. Her book Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) won the 2019 Society for Cinema & Media Studies First Book Award.
Select Publications
“The Work of Didactic Art in the Information Age,” ASAP/Journal 6.1 (2021).
A Concise Companion to Visual Culture. Co-edited with A. Joan Saab and Catherine Zuromskis. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
“Platform Studies,” Feminist Media Histories 4.2 (2018); Special Issue on Genealogies, edited by Shelley Stamp, Miranda Banks, Ralina Joseph, and Michele White. 135-140.
Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
“Labor/Leisure.” Time: A Vocabulary of the Present. Ed. Amy J. Elias and Joel Burges. New York: New York University Press, 2016. 234-254.
“Casual Games, Time Management, and the Work of Affect,” in Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, Issue No. 2, June 2013
Areas of Supervision
Aubrey Anable is interested in supervising graduate students working in the following areas: digital media aesthetics, games studies, virtual reality, media and affect, and queer and feminist theory.
Kester Dyer
Research Highlights
Dyer’s current book project titled Otherworldly Incursions: The Supernatural in Québec Cinema is supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and comprises a broad exploration of the Québec film corpus since the 1990s.
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“Anticipating the Colonial Apocalypse: Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum.” Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes Toward an Inventory. Edited by Laliv Melamed, Vinzenz Hediger and Philipp Keidl. Meson Press, 2020.
“Landscape, Trauma, and Identity: Simon Lavoie’s Le torrent.” A Cinema of Pain: Essays on Quebec’s Nostalgic Screen. Edited by Liz Czach and André Loiselle. Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2020.
“Léolo’s Fantasized Italy: Family Romance and Accented Cinema in Québec.” Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. 5.1 (Jan 2017): 47-64.
Areas of Supervision
Kester Dyer is interested in supervising graduate students and postdocs working on Québécois, Canadian and Indigenous film and media, as well as research deploying genre and postcolonial approaches to film and media.
Marc Furstenau
Research Highlights
Marc Furstenau has published on cinema and technology, film theory, the films of Terrence Malick and of Werner Herzog, and on the photographic theory of Susan Sontag. He has edited an anthology of classic texts in film theory, The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments (Routledge 2010), and co-edited a volume of essays entitled Cinema and Technology (Palgrave 2008).
Furstenau is a member of TECHNÈS, the SSHRC-funded research group on cinema and technology. He is currently co-editing a collection of essays on the history and theory of special effects in the cinema, and writing a book on the aesthetics of digital montage. He was co-editor (2014-2020) of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue canadienne d’études cinématographiques.
Select Publications
Marc Furstenau. The Aesthetics of Digital Montage: Art, Technology, and Film Form. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (Forthcoming, 2020). Part of the book series “Cinema and Technology.”
Marc Furstenau. “Realism, Illusionism, and Special Effects in the Cinema.” Theorizing Special Effects in Film History, Marc Furstenau and Martin Lefebvre (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (Forthcoming, 2020).
Marc Furstenau. “Nature and Natural Meaning in Grizzly Man.” The Philosophy of Werner Herzog, M. Blake Wilson and Christopher Turner (eds.), Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020: 69-94.
Marc Furstenau. “Film Editing, Digital Montage, and the ‘Ontology’ of the Cinema.” Cinémas: Revue d’études cinématographique / Journal of Film Studies. Vol. 28, nos. 2-3, Spring 2018: 29-49.
Marc Furstenau, “The Technologies of Observation: Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life and the Philosophy of Science Fiction. ” Jonathan Beevor and Vernon W. Cisney, (eds.) The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016: 59-87. Available from Northwestern University Press
Marc Furstenau (ed). The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments. New York and London: Routledge, 2010. Available from Routledge.
Marc Furstenau, Bruce Bennett, Adrian Mackenzie (eds.). Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices. London: Palgrave, 2008. Available from Palgrave.
Areas of Supervision
Marc Furstenau is available to supervise graduate students in the following fields: film theory and film history; new digital media; philosophy and film; cultural and media studies; histories and theories of media and communications technologies; theories of representation and semiotics.
Malini Guha
Research Highlights
Guha’s research and teaching are broadly concerned with spatiality and the cinema, with an emphasis on postcolonial and post-imperial modes of mobility, migration, displacement and settlement. Her first monograph, From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) is a study of cinematic London and Paris from the perspective of migration, globalization and the end of empire in a British and French context. Her latest research project examines the infrastructural role of institutions, collectives, workshops and other formations in the production of moving image work dedicated to the experience of diaspora and migration.
Select Publications
“Infrastructural Sovereignty: IsumaTV at the 2019 Venice Biennale”. Mediapolis 4.3 (October 2019).
“Beyond the Archive: The Work of Remembrance in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010)”, Screening the Past, no. 43 (2018).
The Cinematic Revival of Low London in the Age of Speculative Urbanism” in London on Film: The City and Social Change, eds. Pamela Hirsch and Chris O’Rourke and Pamela Hirsch (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp.205-220.
“Cinephilia and the City: The Politics of Place in Contemporary Bengali Cinema” in Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media, eds. Johan Anderson and Lawrence Webb (Wallflower Press, 2016), pp. 121-142.
From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
Areas of Supervision
Malini Guha is interested in supervising students and postdocs on migration, cinema and media, world cinema, cities in cinema and race/representation in cinema and media.
Laura Horak
Research Highlights
Laura Horak is the Director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal. She investigates the history of transgender and queer film and media in the United States, Canada, and Scandinavia. She is author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressing Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 (Rutgers UP, 2016) and co-editor of Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space (Indiana UP, 2014), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), and a special issue of Somatechnics on trans/cinematic/bodies. She is partnering with twelve international film archives and Kino Lorber to create a four-disc DVD/Bluray set called “Cinema’s First Nasty Women.” Horak is a white cis queer settler scholar who is here to leverage her privilege and institutional resources for the revolution.
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“Representing Ourselves into Existence: The Cultural, Political, and Aesthetic Work of Transgender Film Festivals in the 1990s” In The Oxford Companion to Queer Cinema, edited by Ronald Gregg and Amy Villarejo. Oxford: Oxford University Press. In production.
“Curating Trans Erotic Imaginaries.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 7, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 274-287.
“Visibility and Vulnerability: Translatina World-making in The Salt Mines and Wildness.” In The Power of Vulnerability: Mobilizing Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-Racist Media Cultures, edited by Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyrölä and Ingrid Ryberg, 95-115. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 21 pp. (open access)
Unwatchable. Co-edited with Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, and Gunnar Iversen. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, January 2019.
“Tracing the History of Trans and Gender Variant Filmmakers.” Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism 37, no. 2 (Fall 2017): 9-20.
Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, February 2016.
“Trans on YouTube: Intimacy, Visibility, Temporality.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1, no. 4 (December 2014): 572-585.
Areas of Supervision
Laura Horak is interested in supervising graduate students and postdocs working at the intersections of Transgender Studies and Film & Media Studies, as well as research on queer film and media history. See carleton.ca/transmedialab for a list of funded MA and PhD positions in the Transgender Media Lab.
Gunnar Iversen
Research Highlights
Gunnar Iversen has published more than 20 books and 200 articles, in 8 different languages. He has co-written Nordic National Cinemas (Routledge, 1998) and Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema (Scarecrow, 2012) and co-edited Beyond the Visual: Sound and Image in Ethnographic and Documentary Film, 2010). His co-edited anthology, Unwatchable (Rutgers UP), with Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, and Laura Horak, was published in January 2019. His co-edited anthology Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury (Edinburgh University Press), with Scott MacKenzie, will be published in May 2021.
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“Arctic Noir: Revitalizing Sámi Culture through Film Noir,” in Linda Badley et al. (eds.): Nordic Noir Adaptation and Appropriation: Film, Television, and Beyond. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; 55-70.
“A Sámi in Hollywood: Nils Gaup’s Transnational and Generic Negotiations,” in Anna Westerståhl Stenport and Arne Lunde (eds.) Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019; 157-168.
“Storm Chasers and Adrenaline Tourists: Reimagining the Arctic in the New Norwegian Polar Expedition Film,” in Anna Westerståhl Stenport, Scott McKenzie and Lilya Kaganovsky (eds.) Arctic Cinema and the Documentary Ethos, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019; 175-190.
Areas of Supervision
Gunnar Iversen is interested in supervising graduate students and postdocs doing research in the following fields: Film and Media History, Sound Studies, Asian Cinema, Scandinavian Cinema, and Film Aesthetics.
Charles O’Brien
Research Highlights
Charles O’Brien’s book Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound: Transatlantic Trends (Indiana University Press) appeared in print in February 2019. Other publications include Cinema’s Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the United States (Indiana U. Press, 2005).
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“Art Deco and Sound Cinema.” Forthcoming in Art Deco Research Companion. Michael Windover and Bridget Elliot, eds.. Surrey England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound: Transatlantic Trends. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2019.
“Dubbing in the Early 1930s: An Improbable Policy.” In “Splendid Innovations”: The Development, Reception and Preservation of Screen Translation. Carol O’Sullivan and Jean-François Cornu, eds.. London and New York: Oxford University Press and the British Academy. 180-191.
“Technology: Plant, Imported Technology, and Film Style.” In The French Cinema Book, Revised Edition. Michael Temple and Michael Witt, eds.. London: British Film Institute, 2018. 81-88.
“Griffith Goes West: The Move to California and the Style of the Biographs.” In The Blackwell Companion to D. W. Griffith. Charlie Keil, eds.. Hoboken and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. 150-173.
Areas of Supervision
Charles O’Brien is available to supervise students whose research concerns the following fields: film and media history, film music and sound, transnational cinema, film and media technology, and film aesthetics
Aboubakar Sanogo
Research Highlights
Aboubakar Sanogo’s work is located both inside and outside academia and seeks to intervene in both spaces in a mutually transformative manner. It involves research, teaching, film curation, policy making, and institution building. He is the co-founder of Reframing Africa, a research initiative based at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, which brings together academics, archivists along filmmakers and curators to produce discourse on and activism for archiving in Africa. He is currently completing two manuscripts, The History of Documentary in Africa and The Indocile Image: The Cinema of Med Hondo, and an edited collection on the cinema of Med Hondo.
He is also an internationally renowned curator who has curated film programs at The Smithsonian Institution, the Cineteca di Bologna and the Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO). He was instrumental in establishing the African Film Heritage Project (AFHP), a partnership between the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI), Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and UNESCO to restore and preserve fifty African films of historical, cultural and artistic significance. He has also written and done interviews for DVD/Blu Ray releases by the Criterion Collection.
Select Publications
“Cine-Agora-Africana: Meditating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Africa’s Most Important Film Festival” in Film Quarterly, 73.2, Winter 2020.
“Africa in the World of Moving Image Archiving: Challenges and Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century” in Journal of Film Preservation, 99, Oct 2018
“On the Coming of the Time of the Untimely: Toward the Emergence of a Cine-Archival Studies and Dispositif in Reframing Africa: Modernity, Cinema and Africa, Forthcoming 2021. Wits University Press*
“Imaging/Imaginings/Imaginaries: Historicizing Contemporary African Cinema at the Turn of the Third Millennium” Forthcoming in General History of Africa, Vol.9. Paris: UNESCO Publications. Forthcoming 2020*
Special issue of the Journal of African Cinemas devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO). Forthcoming 2021-Intellect Press
“The Indocile Image: Cinema and History in Med Hondo’s Soleil O and Les Bicots-Nègres, Vos Voisins” in Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. 19:4, 2015:548-568
“Reconsidering the Sembenian Project: Towards Aesthetics of Change.” Published in Ukadike, Frank (ed.). Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse. Lanham (MD): Lexington Books, 2014, pp. 209-226.
“Colonialism, Visuality and the Cinema: Revisiting the Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment” in Grieveson, Lee and Colin McCabe (eds.). Empire and Film. London: Palgrave McMillan, 2011, pp. 227-245.
Areas of Supervision
Aboubakar Sanogo is available to supervise graduate students in the following fields: African cinema, Black and Afro-diasporic cinema, documentary film and media, transnational and world cinema, film archival and heritage studies, colonial cinema, film festivals, auteurism, postcolonialism, race and cinema.