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Michael Newman

  • Professor, English
  • Professor, Film Studies Program

Education

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • BA, McGill University

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ENGLISH 290-001 Introduction to Film Studies MW 10am-11:15am
ENGLISH 383-001 Cinema, Television, and Genre: American Screen Comedy MW 11:30am-12:45pm
FILMSTD 290-001 Introduction to Film Studies MW 10am-11:15am
FILMSTD 383-001 Cinema, Television, and Genre: American Screen Comedy MW 11:30am-12:45pm

Courses Taught

  • AMS 101 - Introduction to Mass Media
  • ENGLISH 290 - Introduction to Film Studies
  • FILMSTD 290 - Introduction to Film Studies
  • JAMS 262 - Principles of Media Studies
  • JAMS 562 - Media Studies and Culture
  • JAMS 660 - Seminar in Contemporary Issues in Media Studies - New Media History
  • JAMS 855 - Topics in New Media - Old Media as New Media
  • JAMS 855 - Topics in New Media - What is the Internet?
  • JAMS 855 - Topics in New Media - Children and New Media
  • JAMS 860 - Seminar in Mass Communication: Indie Culture
  • JAMS 860 - Seminar in Mass Communication: New Media
  • JAMS 860 - Seminar in Mass Communication: Video Games

Research Interests

  • American cinema and television
  • Early video games
  • Media history, theory, and criticism
  • Media studies

Selected Publications

Newman, Michael Z. The Media Studies Toolkit Routledge. 2022: 286
Newman, Michael Z. Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2017.
Newman, Michael Z. Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium Columbia University Press. 2014.
Newman, Michael Z., and Levine, Elana. Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status Routledge. 2011.
Newman, Michael Z. Indie: An American Film Culture Columbia University Press. 2011: 304 pages
Newman, Michael Z. “From Beats to Arcs: Toward a Poetics of Television Narrative,” The Velvet Light Trap 58 (Fall 2006), 16-28.

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