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Hugh S. Manon
Assistant Professor
PhD in Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh
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
“See Spot: The Parametric Films Noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer.” Ed. Gary Rhodes (forthcoming 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)
To be anthologized in Tales of the Grotesque: The Cinema of Tod Browning , Bernd Herzogenrath, editor (forthcoming in 2008). (link)
"Some Like it Cold: Fetishism in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity." Cinema Journal 44.4 (Summer 2005). (link)
Recent Grants or Research Trips
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Scholar Research Grant (2007)
- Oklahoma Humanities Council Scholar Research Grant (2004)
- OSU College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Incentive Grant (2003, 2004)
Recent Conference Presentations
“Lip Labor: Asynchronous 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.
“The Walls in Italics: Ichnographic Space in Film Noir.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004.
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).
- “Out And Out: Haneke’s Metaphorics of Intrusion and the Jouissance of the Other” in On Michael Haneke, eds. Brian Price and John David Rhodes (under contract with Wayne State University Press).
- “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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Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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