Faculty | Barbara Klinger

Professor, Film and Media Studies, Department of Communication and Culture

Email: klinger@indiana.edu
Phone: 855-1796
Office: 225

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Communication Studies/Film, University of Iowa,1986
M.A., School of Film, Ohio University,1981

Background

Her research and teaching focus on U.S. cinema, film exhibition and reception, fan studies, cinema and new media, film and convergence culture, media theory and criticism, and gender studies. She is currently working on two book projects: Becoming Classic: Hollywood Cinema, Television Exhibition, and Popular Canons/and Reenactment: Fans Performing Movies, from Theater to Youtube.

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate

Alfred Hitchcock and His Legacy
Hollywood II
Cinema in the Digital Era

Graduate

Reception and Audience Studies
Fans and Participatory Cultures

Publication Highlights

Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home. University of California Press, 2006.
Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk. Indiana University Press, 1994.
“The Art Film, Affect, and the Female Viewer: The Piano Reconsidered,” Screen 47.1 (Spring 2006): 19-41.
“Contraband Cinema: Piracy, Titanic, and Afghanistan,” Cinema Journal (forthcoming 2009).
“Say It Again, Sam: Movie Quotation, Performance, and Masculinity,” Particip@tions: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 5.2 (forthcoming December 2008).
“The Art Film, Affect, and the Female Viewer: The Piano Reconsidered,” Screen 47.1 (Spring 2006): 19-41.
“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.
“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).
“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).