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Jordon Jacobson

  • Teaching Assistant - Doctoral, English

Education

  • Cinema Studies, San Francisco State University, 2020
  • History, Washington State University, 2015

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ARTHIST 111-202 Entertainment Arts: Film, Television, and the Internet No Meeting Pattern
DAC 661-001 Digital Engagement Seminar W 2:30pm-5:10pm
DAC 661G-001 Digital Engagement Seminar W 2:30pm-5:10pm
ENGLISH 111-202 Entertainment Arts: Film, Television, and the Internet No Meeting Pattern
FILMSTD 111-202 Entertainment Arts: Film, Television, and the Internet No Meeting Pattern

Courses Taught

  • English 101: Introduction to College Writing
  • Film Studies 205: History of Film 1
  • Cinema 212: Film History II
  • Cinema 325:1-3: The Star as Author: Marilyn Monroe, Focus on French New Wave, Focus on Hitchcock
  • Cinema 341: Critical Studies: Film Theory
  • Cinema 344: Film Genre – Focus on Melodrama
  • Cinema 344: Film Genre: The Screwball Comedy
  • Cinema 345: Auteur Cinema: Martin Scorsese and William Friedkin
  • Cinema 650-1-3: Filmmaking Master Class with Caveh Zahedi, Christopher Münch, and Pete Nicks

Research Interests

  • Genre cinema
  • horror games
  • digital aesthetics
  • hauntology

Related Activities

  • UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award, 2022-23
  • SFSU Provost Scholar Award, 2019-20

Selected Conference Presentations

  • “Free From Fear: Affective Mood in Horror Game Live Stream Communities,” Be-Twitching Scholarship: Power, Action, and Live Streaming: 2023. Online Conference.
  • “Reimagining the Western Gunslinger and Gender Roles in The Last of Us Part II (2020)” Console-ing Passions: 2022. University of Central Florida.
  • “‘Will you be goin back, Miss? Or pressin on?’: Women in the American West, Loneliness, and Relationships in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” 21st Annual Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association October 17-18, 2019. San Francisco State University.

Selected Publications

“Fast Forwarding the Past (on Pause),” The Velvet Light Trap 90 no.1, (2022).
“Digital Identity Assemblage in Audiovisual Cyberpunk Spaces,” Cinemedia: Journal of SFSU School of Cinema, (2020).
“Vaporwave: Aesthetics of Memory and Nostalgia of An Artificially Constructed Time and Space,” Cinemedia: Journal of SFSU School of Cinema, (2019).

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