Josh Stenger
Associate Professor of Film Studies and English
Office: Meneely 316
Office Hours: Fall 2007: Monday, 5:00 - 6:30; Wednesday, 11:30 - 12:30, and by appointment.
Phone: (508) 286-5436
Fax: (508) 286-8263
Email: jstenger@wheatoncollege.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., Syracuse University
M.A., Syracuse University
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Main Interests
US film history, especially the Hollywood studio system and the New Hollywood; film theory; cultural studies; 20th-century American popular and entertainment culture; gender studies; critical theory; consumerism and cultural landscape.
Research Interests
The relationship between cinematic representation, race and urban space (with specific attention to how this is expressed through/in Hollywood film and Los Angeles); constructions of masculinity in contemporary film.
Teaching Interests
Film studies; US film history; film theory; Hollywood genres; cultural studies; gender, race and film; popular culture; gender studies.
Other Interests
Hollywood memorabilia; Los Angeles history, fiction & architecture; traveling; mysteries & detective novels.
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
What Price Hollywood? Cinema, Race, and Urban Space in Los Angeles. Manuscript in process.
"Mapping the Beach: Beach Movies, Exploitation Film and Geographies of Whiteness." The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Ed. by Daniel Bernardi. London: Routledge, 2007. 28-50.
"Return to Oz: The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal." Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader. Ed. by Paul Grainge, Mark Jancovich and Sharon Monteith. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2007. 539-549.
"The Clothes Make the Fan: Fashion and Online Fandom when Buffy the Vampire Slayer Goes to eBay." Cinema Journal. Vol. 45, no. 4 (Summer 2006). 26-44.
"Consuming the Planet: Planet Hollywood, Stars, and the Global Consumer Culture." Hollywood: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Ed. by Thomas Schatz. London: Routledge, 2003. 346-366 (in Volume IV: Cultural Dimensions: Ideology, Identity and Culture Industry Studies).
"Return to Oz: The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal." Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context. Ed. by Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice. London: Blackwell, 2001. 59-72
"Lights, Camera, Faction: (Re)Producing Los Angeles at Universal's CityWalk." Hollywood Goes Shopping. Ed. by David Desser & Garth Jowett. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 277-308
"Consuming the Planet: Planet Hollywood, Stars, and the Global Consumer Culture." Velvet Light Trap, #40 (Fall 1997). 42-55