John Caldwell

About John

• Professor
• Office: 1329 Macgowan
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• Phone: 310-205-5826

Attachments

Biography

Books

• Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film/Television, (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008).
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• Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, August 1995).
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• Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Film/Television Work Worlds, (New York and London: Routledge, May 2009). Co-Edited with Vicki Mayer, and Miranda Banks.
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• New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality, (New York and London: The AFI Series/Routledge, 2003). Co-Edited with Anna Everett.
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• Theories of the New Media: A Historical Perspective, (London: Athlone/Continuum Press, 2000). [European Edition of Electronic Media] [Edited Book].
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• Electronic Media and Technoculture, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, (2000). [Edited Book].
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Films

• Rancho California (por favor).
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• Freak Street to Goa: Immigrants on The Rajpath.

A media studies scholar and filmmaker (MFA, Cal Arts, PhD, Northwestern University), John Caldwell has authored and edited several books, including “Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television” (Duke Univ. Press, 2008), “Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American Television” (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995), “Electronic Media and Technoculture” (edited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2000), “New Media: Digitextual Theories and Practices” (co-edited with Anna Everett, Routledge, 2003) and the forthcoming “Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries” (co-edited with Vicki Mayer and Miranda Banks, Routledge, 2009).

Caldwell’s critical and theoretical writings have been featured in the journals “Television and New Media,” “Cinema Journal,” “Genre,” “Quarterly Review of Film and Video,” “Emergences: Journal of Media and Composite Cultures,” “Medie Kultur,” “Film Quarterly” and “Aura: Journal of Film Studies” and have been published in numerous books, including “The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies” (2008), “The Media/Cultural Studies Reader” (2009), “Film and Television After the DVD” (2008), “The Media Industries Book” (2009), “Television After TV” (2004), “Media/Space: Place, Scale, and Culture in a Media Age” (2004), “The New Media Book” (2002), “Issues in Contemporary Television” (2004), “Film Theory: An Anthology” (2000), “Television: The Critical View” (1999), “Living Color: Race, Feminism, and Media” (1998) and “American Television: History and Theory” (1994).

He has been a keynote and plenary speaker at various institutions and international conferences, including London Metropolitan University, UK (2007); Warwick University, UK (2006); Shanghai University, China (2004); the International Communication Association Annual Conference, U.S. (2003); the “Media and Cultural Development in the Digital Era Conference,” Taiwan (2001) and the University of Siegen, Germany (1999). For his film and video productions, Caldwell has also received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (1979, 1985), Regional Fellowships (AFI/NEA, 1985, 1988) and state arts councils (1984, 1985, 1989). His films have been screened in museums and festivals in Amsterdam, Park City, Paris, Berlin, Toulouse, Mexico City, Taipei, San Francisco, New York, Palm Springs, Santa Cruz, Hawaii and Chicago and have been broadcast on SBS-TV Network/Australia, WTTW-Chicago, WGBH-Boston, WNED-Buffalo and WEIU-TV-Illinois. He is the producer/director of the award-winning documentaries “Freak Street to Goa: Immigrants on the Rajpath” (1989), a film about “the migratory pattern of ‘hippies’ in India and Nepal,” and “Rancho California (por favor)” (2002), a troubling look at migrant camps that house indigenous Mixteco workers within the arroyos of Southern California’s most affluent suburbs.