Barbara Klinger
Professor of Communication and Culture
Adjunct Professor of English, Comparative Literature, American Studies, and Cultural Studies
Barbara Klinger received her Ph.D. in Film Studies from the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa in 1986. Her research and teaching focus on U.S. cinema, reception studies, fan studies, cinema and new media, media theory and criticism, and gender studies. She is currently editing a reception studies reader for Routledge and starting a new book project tentatively entitled, Cult Blockbusters: Movies, Home Screens, and Male Fandoms.
Representative publications include:
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Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home. University of California Press, 2006.
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Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk. Indiana University Press, 1994.
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“The Art Film, Affect, and the Female Viewer: The Piano Reconsidered,” Screen 47.1 (Spring 2006): 19-41.
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“Film History Terminable and Interminable: Recovering the Past in Reception Studies,” Screen 38.2 (Summer 1997): 107-128. Winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award for best essay from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
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“Cinema’s Shadow: Reconsidering Non-Theatrical Exhibition,” in Going to the Movies: The Social Experience of Hollywood Cinema, ed. Richard Maltby, Melvyn Stokes, and Robert C. Allen ( Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, forthcoming 2007).
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“What Do Female Fans Want? Blockbusters, The Return of the King, and U.S. Audiences,” in Tolkien’s World Audiences, ed. Martin Barker and Ernest Mathijs, et al ( London: Peter Lang Publishers, forthcoming 2008).