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Roundtable Presenters:
Dr. Neta Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media at Colgate University and the Assistant Editor of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS). Her work focuses on digital culture, film and media, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Her award-winning analysis of buffering revealed the understudied ways in which latency and delay are inherent to digital systems and infrastructures. Her recent book, Failure (co-authored with Arjun Appadurai, 2020) studies how Silicon Valley and Wall Street monetize failure and forgetfulness. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Visual Culture, Cinema Journal, Cinergie, Film Quarterly, Media Fields Journal, Flow Journal, and other publications. She also contributed chapters to the anthologies The Netflix Effect (2016), Compact Cinematics (2017), and Pandemic Media (2021). Her public scholarship encompassing topics such as the Internet of Medical Things, predictive personalization, and the limitations of technology has been published in The Atlantic, Public Books, Real Life Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and Haaretz.
Dr. Girish Shambu is Professor of Management at Canisius College in Buffalo, where he teaches sustainability and supply chain management. In a dual career as film blogger, critic, and scholar, Girish is also the author of The New Cinephilia (caboose, 2020, 2nd ed.) and editor of Film Quarterly’s online column Quorum. His writings have appeared at The Criterion Collection, Framework Journal of Film & Media, and Film Quarterly.
Dr. Jane Shattuc is Professor of Visual and Media Studies at Emerson College. She is the author of Television, Tabloids, Tears: Fassbinder and Popular Culture (University of Minnesota Press) and The Talking Cure: Television Talk Shows and Women (Routledge Press) and the editor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Cultures (Duke University Press) Her most recent book is The American TV Industry (co-authored with Michael Curtin, British Film Institute). She is currently working a new book analyzing international streaming. She has taught at the University of Vermont and University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a fellow at Bonn Universität, Bonn, Germany.
Patricia Zimmermann, Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies, will moderate.
Behind the Screens is designed as conversations with major figures in international screen cultures to probe the systems, structures, economics, politics, operations, infrastructures, and practices undergirding cinema across myriad forms such as major Class A international festivals, international art cinemas, documentary, virtual cinema, local art cinema exhibition, experimental animation, and streaming.
Discussion opens up thinking about cinema across many forms and modes, unraveling the complex nexus of production, distribution, and exhibition.
Behind the Screens is a collaboration between the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, the new BA in Screen Cultures, and the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Dr. Patricia Zimmermann, Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies, and Dr. Rachel Schaff, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Screen Studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communications are co-programmers of the series.