Biography

Greg Smith (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998) is nd Associate Professor who recently published Film Structure and the Emotion System (Cambridge 2003), and has edited two volumes, On a Silver Platter: CD-Roms and the Promises of a New Technology (NYU 1999), and Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion (Johns Hopkins 1999, with C. Plantinga). His research has been published in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Television and New Media, Asian Cinema, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Cinema Journal, Animation Journal, and the Journal of Film and Video. Smith’s research interests span traditional media boundaries, and intersects film, television, and new media scholarship. He is completing work in a book project – Beautiful TV: The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal, under contract with the University of Texas Press. He has recently been invited to present his work at conferences in Australia, Great Britain, and Germany, and has twice won the department’s Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award. Research Areas: Television Studies; Media Theory; Film & Cognition. Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Moving Image Studies), M.A. (Film & Video). Core Graduate Seminars Regularly Taught: Narrative, Style, & Aesthetics; Advanced Film Theory; Issues and Perspectives in Communication Theory; Film History.