Andrew Utterson

Associate Professor, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies
School: Roy H. Park School of Communications
Office: Roy H Park School of Communications 356, Ithaca, NY 14850

Overview:

Dr. Andrew Utterson is Associate Professor of Screen Studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communications.


Biography:

Specializing in the area of 'screen studies,' his research and teaching examine the impact of new technology on cinema as well as the ways in which new technology enables us to rethink the history of the moving image across screen media.

He is the author of Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), From IBM to MGM: Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age (British Film Institute / Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), editor of Technology and Culture: The Film Reader (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor of the 4-volume anthology Film Theory: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2004).

Originally from the UK, Andrew joined Ithaca College in 2012 having previously been Senior Lecturer of Film and Digital Media at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.


Research interests:

Film history, theory, and criticism; global cinema; media technology; digital culture and the history of new media


Recent articles and chapters:



Courses regularly taught at Ithaca College: 

Contemporary European Cinema: National and Transnational Perspectives (Ithaca Seminar) 
Introduction to Film Aesthetics and Analysis (CNPH 10100)
Hollywood and American Film (CNPH 21400)
Fiction Film Theory (CNPH 30000)
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival: Festivals (GCOM 12000)