JUMP
CUT
A
REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA
3480 Mill Street, Eugene OR 97405, USA
541-344-8129
chuckkle@northwestern.edu
1. CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor Emeritus. Radio/Television/Film Department, Northwestern University; spring 1977-2009. Introductory courses in microcomputer graphics, film and video making, media literacy, popular culture; advanced courses in production aesthetics, experimental and documentary film and video, Hollywood cinema. Graduate courses in film/tv theory, mass culture theory, digital culture, cross-cultural media. Dissertation direction: 43 completed.
Co-editor, founder and publisher,
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media; 1974-present. Jump Cut published annually, circulated 4000+ copies per issue nationally and internationally in print, and ranges from reportage and reviews to original research and analytical articles. In 2001 it became a web-based publication. <http://www.ejumpcut.org>
RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS
Independent Film and Video. History and aesthetics of experimental and documentary work. Radical, feminist, and Black independent work. Institutional analysis of the independent sector.
Mass Culture: Theory and Case Studies. Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic, semiotic analysis of mass culture. History of film theory. Ideological analysis of Hollywood. Subculture reception of mass culture. U.S. culture in the Third World.
Sexual Representation. Visual communication using sexual images from high art to kitsch, advertising to pornography. Sexuality in experimental film and video. Image use in stigmatized sexual subcultures.
Media and Development. Aesthetic, ethical and political issues in cross cultural analysis. History and aesthetics of Latin America cinema and video. Media use in revolutionary movements. Special interest in Nicaragua, Cuba, and African diaspora.
CREATIVE WORK
Experimental and documentary work in Super 8mm film, 1/2" and 8mm video, photography, Xerox, graphic design, Macintosh computer graphics and animation. Special interest in radical use of consumer technologies.
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