Jennifer Horne,  Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Dr. Horne is currently writing a book called “Spectators into Citizens: American Silent Film and Civic Discourse,” a study of the better films movement and the cinema’s early relationship to cultural institutions such as schools, museums and other heritage industry sites, archives, and libraries. Her research has appeared in The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and Afterimage. She has co-authored articles, with Jonathan Kahana, in Afterimage and Surfaces and served as a consultant for The Field Guide to Sponsored Films by Rick Prelinger (San Francisco: National Film Preservation Foundation, 2006). Dr. Horne contributed voiceover commentary to the DVD set Treasures from American Film Archives III, and appeared as a guest on WHYY’s A Chef’s Table to talk about food in film. She currently serves as a member of the National Film Preservation Board and is Chair of the Media Archives Committee of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She has been a regular participant at the Orphan Film Symposium and the Women and the Silent Screen Congress and is a member of Domitor.

Dr. Horne teaches courses on film analysis, film history, and film theory. Her research interests include: the history of film criticism, both popular and academic; the history of film culture (in particular, film societies and cinematheques); the relationship of film to other technologies of recording; women and cinema; experimental film and video; theories of citizenship and globalization; cinema of the Asia-Pacific region, especially before 1945.

Fall 2008 Courses:

MDIA 201 – Introduction to Media Studies

MDIA 499 - Senior Seminar: Topics in Media Studies