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Brian R. Jacobson
Assistant Professor of Screen Studies
PhD, Critical Studies, University of Southern California; SM, Comparative Media Studies, MIT
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Cinema and Architecture
- Early Film History and Historiography
- History and Philosophy of Technology
- Visual Studies
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
- ENGL5360: Moving Images and Industrial Modernity
- ENGL5363: Theory/History/Screen
- ENGL3443: Studies in Film Genre [Science Fiction]
- ENGL4450: Culture and the Moving Image [Cinema and Architecture]
Selected Publications
"The Black Maria: Film Studio, Film Technology (Cinema and the History of Technology)," History and Technology 27.2 (2011), 233-241
"A Business Without a Future? : The Parisian Vidéo-Club, Past and Present," (with Joshua Neves). Media Fields Journal: Critical Explorations in Media and Space, Issue 1 (http://mediafieldsjournal.org - December 2010).
"Film Analysis After Film," Review of Framed Time: Towards a Postfilmic Cinema. Garrett Stewart. University of Chicago Press, 2007. Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 32.2 (2010).
"The 'imponderable fluidity' of modernity: Georges Méliès and the architectural origins of cinema." Early Popular Visual Culture 8, no. 2 (May 2010), 189-207.
"Introduction: Deaths of Cinema" (with Christopher Hanson and Veronica Paredes). Spectator 27 (2007): 5-8.
Book Review: An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937. Zhang Zhen. University of Chicago Press, 2005. Film International #26 (5:2), April 2007.
Recent Grants or Research Trips
- College of Arts & Sciences Fall Travel Award, Oklahoma State University, 2012-2013
- Dean’s Incentive Grant for Summer Research, Oklahoma State University, 2012
- College of Arts & Sciences Spring Travel Award, Oklahoma State University, 2011-2012
- Fulbright Advanced Student Fellowship (France), 2009-2010
- International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2009-2010
Recent Conference Presentations
“Film Power, Off the Grid: Electrical Infrastructure + Studio Technology in Paris, 1904-1925”
Network Archaeology Conference
Miami University, Oxford OH, April 19-21, 2012
“Fantastic Functionality: Early Studio Architecture and its Photographic Representations”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Boston, MA, March 21-25, 2012
“Technology and Visual Culture at the World’s First Film Studio”
Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting
Cleveland, OH, November 3-6, 2011
"Reinventing the Studio: Film Architecture in Southern California, 1909-1915"
The Second Birth of Cinema: A Centenary Conference
Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, July 1-2, 2011
Presenter and Panel Chair: "A Specific Art of the Machine: New Approaches to Film and Technology"
Paper: "The Black Maria: Studio, Machine, Human-Built World"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
New Orleans, LA, March 10-13, 2011
"Producing Cinema and Industrial Modernity at the Cité Elgé, 1919-1929"
First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema: Cinema Across Media: The 1920s University of California, Berkeley, February 24-26, 2011
"Georges Méliès's 'Voyages Extraordinaires': Film Technology and Technological Critique" Society for French Historical Studies Conference
Charleston, SC, February 10-12, 2011
"Glass, Steel, Concrete, and Celluloid: 'Building' Cinema in the Bronx, 1906-1909"
11th International Domitor Conference: Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 2010
"Factories of Vision/Visionary Factories: Early Cinema, Technology, and the Modern Built Environment" Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference Los Angeles, CA, March 2010
"Modernity, Postmodernity, Convergence: What's New?"
Media in Transition 5: Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration in the Digital Age Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2007
"Digital Inscription: Marking the Flesh of the Cinematic Body"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Chicago, IL, March 2007
Current Research Projects
Professor Jacobson's research explores the intersections of moving-image media, the visual arts, architecture, and technology. His interests include early French and American cinema, modern visual culture, theories of space and place, and the history and philosophy of technology. These interests converge in his current book project -- Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and Early Cinema -- a study of the world's first film studios and their place in the architectural and technological changes of urban industrial modernity.
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