Faculty | Gregory A. Waller

Professor, Department of Communication and Culture

Email: gwaller@indiana.edu
Phone: 855-5721
Office: 216

Education

Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook

Background

He is currently working on two major projects: a history of 16mm, traveling exhibition, and the non-theatrical film industry during the 1930s-1940s; and Japan-in-America, a comprehensive look at the presentation of Japan across varied media from 1890-1915, a project which includes a traveling exhibit and a digital archive (http://www.indiana.edu/~jia1915/)

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate
- Hollywood I: The First Fifty Years of American Cinema, 1895-1945
- Topics in Media History: Representing Japan
- Hollywood and American Media in the 1930s
Graduate
- Histories of American Cinema
- American Silent Cinema
- Methods of Media Research

Publication Highlights

American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
The Living and the Undead: From Stoker's 'Dracula' to Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead'. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930. Washington: Smithsonian Institutional Press, 1995. Winner of the Theatrical Library Association award and the Katherine Singer Kovacs award of the Society for Cinema Studies.
Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition. London and Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
"Japan on American Screens, 1908-1915." Early Cinema and the National, eds. Richard Abel, Georgio Bertolini, and Rob King. Eastleigh: John Libbey Publishing, 2008, pp. 137-50.
"Free Talking Picture-Every Farmer is Welcome: Non-Theatrical Film and Everyday Life in Rural America during the 1930s." In Going to the Movies, eds. Melvyn Stokes, Robert Allen, and Richard Maltby. Univeristy of Exeter Press.
"Narrating the New Japan: The Hero of Liao Yang (1904)." Screen 47, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 43-65.
"Imagining and Promoting the Small-Town Theater." Cinema Journal 44, no. 3 (Spring 2005): 3-19.
"Robert Southard and the History of Itinerate Film Exhibition." Film Quarterly 57, no. 2 (2004): 2-14.

Selected Honors and Awards

Katherine Singer Kovacs award of the Society for Cinema Studies for outstanding scholarship in film and media studies (1995-1997) for Main Street Amusements
Theatre Library Association award for best book in film and television studies (1995) for Main Street Amusements
Toshiba Foundation Grant for museum exhibition: Japan-in-America, The
Turn of the Twentieth Century (2005)
Fulbright Lectureship, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand (1993)