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Hugh S. Manon
Associate Professor
PhD in Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Manon is on University Sabbatical for the Fall Semester of the 2009-2010 school year.
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Lacanian Psychoanalysis
- Film Genres: Horror, Film Noir, Gangster, Pseudo-documentary
- Lo-Fi Aesthetics
- Cuteness Culture
- Tod Browning
Recent Upper Division and Graduate Courses Taught
- The Classical Hollywood Crime Genres (graduate)
- Honors Seminar in English: Lo-Fi Aesthetics
- Lacan and His Followers (graduate)
- Gender, Alterity and Subversion in American Cinema (graduate)
- History of International Film: International Noir
Selected Publications
"Heading Off Satisfaction in Tough Guys Don't Dance." The Mailer Review 3.1 (forthcoming Fall 2009).
"Comment ça, rien?: Screening the Gaze in Caché." On Michael Haneke. Eds. Brian Price and John David Rhodes (forthcoming from Wayne State University Press).
“Fantasy and Failure in Edgar G. Ulmer's Strange Illusion.” The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer. Ed. Bernd Herzogenrath (May 2009). (link).
"See Spot: The Parametric Films Noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer." Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row. Ed. Gary Rhodes (May 2008). (link).
"The Jouissance of Jargon." World Picture 1 (Spring 2008). (link)
"One Watches Cells: Kubrick's Films Noirs in Context." Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy. Ed. Gary Rhodes (January 2008). (link)
“X-Ray Visions: Radiography, Chiaroscuro , and the Fantasy of Unsuspicion in Film Noir.” Film Criticism 32.2 (Winter 2007-08). (link)
"Qui Perd Gagne: Failure and Cinematic Seduction.” International Journal of Žižek Studies 1.3 (Fall 2007), issue on “Žižek and Cinema.” (link)
"Seeing Through Seeing Through: The Trompe L'oeil Effect and Bodily Difference in the Cinema of Tod Browning." Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 47.1 (Spring 2006). (link)
Anthologized in The Cinema of Tod Browning: Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque. Ed. Bernd Herzogenrath (September 2008). (link)
"Some Like it Cold: Fetishism in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity." Cinema Journal 44.4 (Summer 2005). (link)
Awards, Honors, & Grants
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Scholar Research Grant (2004, 2007, 2009)
- OSU Regents Distinguished Teaching Award (2008)
Recent Conference Presentations
"Getting Cute with CGI." Forthcoming at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Los Angeles, March 2010.
"Rude Aesthetics in the Digital Mainstream." World Picture Conference on the Popular. Oklahoma State University, October 2008.
"Lip Labor: Asychronous Sound in Popular Film and Television." The Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Philadelphia, March 2008.
"The Ethics of Endurance in Cult Cinema.” World Picture Conference, “Media and Ethics.” Oklahoma State University, October 2007.
"Living Dead Spaces: The Desire for the Local in the films of George Romero." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago, Illinois, March 2007.
"The Shine of Absences: Cuteness Culture and the Female Fetish." Framework Conference, "The Future of Theory." Oklahoma State University, November, 2006.
Current Research & Projects
- “Living Dead Spaces: The Desire for the Local in the films of George Romero” in The Place of the Moving Image, eds. John David Rhodes and Elena Gorfinkel (under contract with University of Minnesota Press).
- "Partition and Desire in the films of Joseph H. Lewis" (under consideration for a proposed Lewis anthology).
- “As Far As Anyone Knows: The Anti-Televisual Paradoxes of Film Noir.” (Book)
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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