Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Research and Creative Endeavor Nerone is the author or co-author of four books and numerous articles, including “Violence Against the Press: Policing the Public Sphere in U.S. History” (Oxford University Press, 1994), “Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press” (University of Illinois Press, 1995), and, with Kevin Barnhurst, “The Form […]
Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Background Christians is the former director of the Institute of Communications Research and chair of the doctoral program in communications, positions he held from 1987-2001 and from 2007-2009. He has been a visiting scholar in philosophical ethics at Princeton University, a research fellow in social ethics and also a visiting scholar […]
Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Awards Research and Creative Endeavor Books: The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism (University of Texas Press, 2022). Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics (Columbia University Press, 2015). Selected Articles: “Jurassic Park’s Smoothing Pass: The Dinosaur Input Device […]
Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Research and Creative Endeavor Peabody Award-winning documentary producer, director, writer, and editor Contact jrosenst@illinois.edu
Associate Professor Emerita Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Ann Reisner is an Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies, the Institute of Communications Research and an affiliate in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Her primary research interests are in the areas of environmental communications and the sociology […]
Associate ProfessorDirector, Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background My research explores the history of film style and craft, Franco-American cinema and its transnational intersections, the musical genre, movement and the body on screen, the relationship between dance and film history, methods for movement analysis, and videographic criticism. My first book, […]
Associate ProfessorDirector of Graduate Studies (ICR) Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Derek Long is a historian of media industries, specializing in the Hollywood studio system, film distribution, and digital approaches to cinema history. His first book, Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System (University of Texas Press, 2024), examines the history of film […]
Senior Lecturer Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Heuman’s research explores media industries and regulation (especially television), with an emphasis on the regulation of media work. His different projects come together in a concern for the cultural life of media industries and their regulation (from content regulation as a style of cultural criticism to the […]
Professor and Interim Head Affiliations Education Course Specialties Research and Creative Endeavor My research concerns a wide variety of media and contexts—from popular media of the 20th century (cinema, television, telephony, radio) to “new media” and forms of “media convergence” to technologies and appliances that are not usually considered “media” (such as cars, buildings, clothes, […]
Senior Lecturer Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Victor Font founded his own audiovisual company in the ’90s. He has been in the production business for more than 25 years. As principal of Prodimag his professional work has involved direction, production, postproduction, and services for worldwide production companies. In 2004 he founded Intermedio, a cinema distribution […]