Jason Middleton

Assistant Professor of English

PhD  Duke University
Film and media studies, film and media production, popular music and music video, cultural studies

Research/Writing interests

Middleton's research interests currently include the revision for publication of his manuscript, titled Documentary/Genre. The project brings together scholarship in the areas of documentary and genre studies, examining the under-theorized affective and bodily dimensions of documentary spectatorship. His co-edited collection from Duke University Press, Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones (2007), opens up new avenues of inquiry within the field of music video studies. It explores the transformations in music video as cultural form in relation to new technologies, modes of distribution, and the global production and consumption of music video. He is also an award-winning experimental filmmaker, whose work has screened at a variety of festivals and other venues in the U.S. and internationally, as well as on public and satellite television.

Selected publications

• Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones, ed. Roger Beebe and Jason Middleton, Duke 2007
• "The Audio-Vision of Found Footage Film and Video," in Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones, ed. Roger Beebe and Jason Middleton, Duke 2007
• "Buffy as Femme Fatale: The Cult Heroine and the Male Spectator," in Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ed. Lisa Parks and Elana Levine, Duke 2007
• "Documentary Comedy," in Visible Evidence: New Documentary Forms, ed. Jane Roscoe and Derek Paget, spec. issue of Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy 104 (2002)
  
• "DC Punk and the Production of Authenticity," in Rock over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture, ed. Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, and Ben Saunders, Duke 2002
• "The Racial Politics of Hybridity and Neo-Eclecticism in Contemporary Popular Music," with Roger Beebe, in Popular Music 21.2 (2002)
  

Teaching

Courses in film studies; documentary film and video; theory and practice of experimental film and video; Hollywood genres, including comedy and horror

Recent courses

• Introduction to the Art of Film (fall 2006)
• Issues in Film: Documentary, Mock Documentary, Reality TV (fall 2007)
• Popular Film Genres: Comedy and Horror (spring 2008)
• Introductory Video and Sound Art (spring 2008)
  

Jason Middleton's CV

jmiddle2@mail.rochester.edu
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