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Isabel Pinedo is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. She holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center, in sociology. She is the author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing (SUNY Press, 1997). She has published articles on the horror genre in the Journal of Film and Video, and Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres. Recent publications deal with the depiction of blowback on Battlestar Galactica, and the treatment of 9/11 on Jericho. She is currently working on a project on “Discourses of Death, Torture, and Terrorism in Television and Film after 9/11.” She teaches courses on Television Culture, Television Genres, and Complex TV Narratives, among others.
She can be reached at ipinedo@hunter.cuny.edu.
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