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1 JAMES KENDRICK, PH.D. Assistant Professor Film and Digital Media Division Department of Communication Studies Baylor University P.O. Box Waco, Texas (254) (254) (fax) 2400 North 51st Street, Waco, Texas (254) RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Media history, film and media theory, violence in the media, popular culture, film genre, media censorship and regulation, cinema and new technologies ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Baylor University, Waco, TX August 2005 present Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies Courses Taught FDM 3351 History of Motion Pictures FDM 3352 History of Radio and TV FDM 4340 Media & Society FDM 4343 Film/Video Aesthetics: Theory and Criticism Indiana University, Bloomington August 1999 July 2003 Associate Instructor, Department of Communication and Culture Courses Taught: C190 Introduction to Media Fall 2001 Summer 2003 C121 Public Speaking Fall 1999 Spring 2001 Research Assistant for Joan Hawkins Summer 2004 for James Naremore and Barbara Klinger Spring Summer 2002 Baylor University, Waco, TX

2 August 1997 May 1999 Research Assistant, Department of Journalism for Kyle V. Cole Fall 1998 Spring 1999 for Michael E. Bishop Fall 1997 Spring 1998 EDUCATION Indiana University, Bloomington Doctor of Philosophy, Communication and Culture ( ) Minor: American Studies Dissertation: Screen Violence and the New Hollywood Advisor: Joan Hawkins Baylor University, Waco, TX Master of Arts, Journalism ( ) Thesis: Critical Choices in Print and Cyberspace: A Content Analysis of Three Print-Based Film Critics and Three Internet-Based Film Critics Advisor: Kyle V. Cole Bachelor of Arts, English ( ) PUBLICATIONS Books Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre. Forthcoming entry in the Short Cuts series from Wallflower Press, London, Book Chapters Representing the Unrepresentable: 9/11 on Film and Television. Forthcoming chapter in the anthology Why We Fought: America s Wars in Film and History, edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2008.

3 A Nasty Situation: Social Panics, Transnationalism, and the Video Nasty. Chapter in the anthology Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear, edited by Steffen Hantke, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Jacob s Ladder and Häxan. Chapter entries in the anthology 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider, Quintet Publishing, London, Journal Articles Aspect Ratios and Joe Six-Packs: Home Theater Enthusiasts Battle to Legitimize the DVD Experience. A peer-reviewed article published in The Velvet Light Trap, Fall 2005, No. 56, pp Danish Horror: A Witches Brew of Fact, Fiction, and Spectacle: Benjamin Christensen s Häxan (The Witch, 1922). An invited article published in Kinoeye, October 13, 2003, Vol. 3, No. 11, What is the Criterion? The Criterion Collection as an Archive of Film as Culture. A peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of Film and Video, Summer/Fall 2001, Vol. 53, Nos. 2 & 3, pp Marxist Ideology in Three Films by James Cameron. A peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Fall 1999, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp Magazine Articles A Greatly Exaggerated Death: The Persistent Power of the Cinema. Baylor Magazine, Summer 2006, p. 25. Film and Book Reviews The Many Shades of Red: On New Hollywood Violence, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Film-Philosophy, 2006, Vol. 10, No 3, Review of Hindle Wakes (1927), directed by Maurice Elvey. The Moving Image, Spring 2006, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp More than 1,600 feature-length film reviews published at The QNetwork ( an entertainment content-provider web site (January 1997 present).

4 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Empty Spaces: The Role of Missing Films in Cinema History. A peer-reviewed paper to be presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the University Film & Video Association, Denton, TX, August 11, Phantom Cinema: Illuminating the Structuring Absences of Film History. A peer-reviewed paper presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March 10, Also served as panel chair for Forgotten Histories. Return of the Return of the Repressed: The Role of Post-9/11 American Horror. A peerreviewed paper to be presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the American Studies Association of Texas, Images of the South, West, and Texas, Waco, TX, November 17, The Violence of 9/11 in Documentary and Feature Film Traditions. A peer-reviewed paper presented at a moderated panel session at the Film & History League conference, The Documentary Tradition, Dallas, TX, November 11, Splitting Hairs in the Alphabet Soup: The Road From R to PG-13. A peer-reviewed paper presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, Canada, March 4, Served as panel chair for Hollywood Histories. Images Without Precedent: My Lai, Sand Creek, and the Mythological Heritage of American Violence in Soldier Blue. A peer-reviewed paper presented at a moderated panel session at the Literature/Film Association and Film & History League conference, War in Film, Television, and History, Dallas, TX, November 13, OAR vs. J6P: The Construction of Taste, Knowledge, and Legitimacy on the Home Theater Forum. A peer-reviewed paper presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, MN, March 8, Served as panel chair for New Technologies: Changing Spectatorship and Exhibition Practices. Signifiers of Artifice: Examining a Poetics of Realism in Cinematic Violence. A peerreviewed paper presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, Denver, CO, May 26, What is the Criterion? The Criterion Collection as Archive of Film as Culture. A peerreviewed paper presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, Washington, DC, May 24, 2001.

5 Journalistic and Humanist Approaches: Movie Reviews in The New Yorker and Entertainment Weekly. A peer-reviewed paper presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD, August 8, AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS University Research Grant, Baylor University Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University May 2002 Outstanding Associate Instructor Award, Dept. of Communication and Culture, Indiana University April 2002 Travel Grant, Dept. of Communication and Culture, Indiana University May 2001 Travel Grant, Dept. of Journalism, Baylor University August 1998 Inclusion in Who s Who Among American Universities and Colleges 1998 COMMITTEES AND POSITIONS New Faculty Search Committee, Department of Communication Studies, Baylor University Fall 2006 Monocaine Editorial Advisory Board Spring 2004 present DEPARTMENT AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Digital Convergence Initiative s Comanche Bit Trail Project Assistant Supervisor March 2006 Helped supervise and coordinate the work of Baylor University students in a project sponsored by the Digital Convergence Initiative to demonstrate the transmission of 1080i high-definition video over a long distance via existing Internet technologies.

6 City Lights, weekly film series at Indiana University Director Fall 2003 Summer 2004 Advisory Board Spring 2001 Spring 2005 Weekly film series sponsored by the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. The series highlights 16mm films from the university s collection and provides a needed venue for classical cinema in the community. Responsibilities included organizing the series, scheduling screenings, selecting films, running the screenings, and marketing. PROFESSIONAL AND ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) University Film and Video Association (UFVA) Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) Kappa Tau Alpha, National Honor Society of Journalism and Mass Communication Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honors Society

Shira Segal Department of Art and Art History University at Albany, State University of New York Fine Arts 216, 1400 Washington Ave.

Shira Segal Department of Art and Art History University at Albany, State University of New York Fine Arts 216, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222 EDUCATION Ph.D. Film and Media Studies, Indiana University