John McCullough’s primary area of research is popular North American film and television. His teaching focusses on representations of social, power, and spatial relations and critical analysis of media institutions and enterprises including studies of media labour. He has published a monograph on the tv series 24 and co-edited Locating Migrating Media. He has published …
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Janine Marchessault
Janine Marchessault is a professor in Cinema and Media Arts and holds a York Research Chair in Media Art and Social Engagement. Her research has engaged with four areas: the history of large screen media (from multiscreen to Imax to media as architecture and VR); diverse models of public art, festivals, and site specific curation; …
Brenda Longfellow
Professor Longfellow has published articles on documentary, feminist film theory and Canadian cinema in Public, CineTracts, Screen, and the Journal of Canadian Film Studies. She is a co-editor (with Scott MacKenzie and Tom Waugh) of the anthology The Perils of Pedagogy: the Works of John Greyson (2013) and Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women Filmmakers (1992). …
Ali Kazimi
Professor Ali Kazimi (pronounced Ka-Zim-E) is filmmaker, writer, and visual artist whose work deals with race, social justice, migration, history, memory and archive. In 2019 he received the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts, as well as a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa from the University of British Columbia. In 2023 he was …
Philip Hoffman
Philip Hoffman has been honored with more than twenty-five retrospectives of his work. In 2001 the publication Landscape with Shipwreck: First Person Cinema and the Films of Philip Hoffman, was released comprising some 25 essays. In that publication, scholar Martha Rosler characterized his filmmaking work as follows: “Philip Hoffman is one of the few contemporary …
Sharon Hayashi
Professor Hayashi specializes in Japanese cinema and media studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of visual culture and history. Her current research interests include digital mapping, architectures of cinema, and the resurgence of artistic and political collectives in urban Japan. She has published articles on Japanese pink cinema and the travel films of Shimizu …
John Greyson
The recipient of the 2000 Toronto Arts Award for film/video and the 2007 Bell Award in Video Art, John Greyson is a filmmaker, video artist, writer, activist and educator whose productions have won accolades at festivals throughout the world. Feature films include: Urinal (1988 – Best Feature Teddy, Berlin Film Festival); Zero Patience (1993 – Best Canadian Film, Sudbury …
Laurence Green
Laurence Green is a documentary filmmaker whose productions present provocative and poetic images from the archival footage and home movies of our collective memories and explore notions of family, personal history and Canadian identity politics. His autobiographical documentaryReconstruction won eight major film awards at festivals from Ann Arbor to Leipzig, including best short film at the …
Scott Forsyth
A film historian, editor and critic, Scott Forsyth’s scholarly interests include film and politics, Hollywood history, Canadian cultural history, culture and Communism, Marxist cultural theory, politics and film in the Third World. His current research includes an archival project on the cultural work of Canadian communists from the 1930s to 1950s, and research on the …
Caitlin Fisher
Caitlin Fisher directs both the Immersive Storytelling Lab and the Augmented Reality Lab at York University in Toronto where she held the Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture (2004-2014). A co-founder of York’s Future Cinema Lab, Caitlin is also a former Fulbright Research Chair (UC Santa Barbara), and former Mourou-Strickland fellowship holder (Paris). She is …
