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Lucas Hilderbrand

Assistant Professor, Film & Media Studies
School of Humanities

Assistant Professor, Visual Studies
School of Humanities

Affiliated Faculty, Women's Studies
School of Humanities

Ph.D., New York University, 2006, Cinema Studies

Phone: (949) 824-6898
Email: lucas.h@uci.edu

University of California
2128 Humanities Gateway
Mail Code: 2435
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
Histories of Technology, Copyright, Documentary, Queer Cultures and Media, Obscenity, Video Art
   
URLs Film and Media Studies
   
Visual Studies
   
Center in Law, Society and Culture
   
Inherent Vice on Facebook
   
OC Weekly article
   
Academic
Distinctions
Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2006
   
Appointments Courses:

Film and Media Studies
FMS 190: Audio Cultures: Sound and Music (Fall 2007, Fall 2009)
FMS 112: Documentary (Winter 2008)
FMS 139W: Writing about Film and Media (Winter 2008, Spring 2010)
FMS 160: 1970s American Cinema (Fall 2008)
FMS 85B: History of Broadcasting (Winter 2009)
FMS 110: Film and Media Theory (Spring 2009, Fall 2009)
FMS 130/WS 190: Going Out: Queer Nightlife (Spring 2009)
FMS 115: Disney (Spring 2010)

Visual Studies
VS 295: Inventing the Media: Histories of Technology (Fall 2007)
VS 295: Sex Scenes: Sexualities, Images, Publics (Fall 2008)
VS 292: Film and Media Studies: Theories and Methods (Winter 2010)

Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Cinematic Arts' Division of Critical Studies, University of Southern California, 2006-07
   
Publications BOOK:

Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright (Duke University Press, 2009)

Available at: http://www.amazon.com/Inherent-Vice-Histories-Videotape-Copyright/dp/0822343762

ESSAYS AND EDITORIAL PROJECTS:

Special issue editor (with Lynne Sachs), "Experiments in Documentary," Millennium Film Journal (summer 2009)
Available at: http://mfj-online.org/

"Experiments in Documentary: Contradiction, Uncertainty, Change," Millennium Film Journal (summer 2009)
PDF available at: http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e88476a397d012423e4ed85f27f8f2134a42fd493f53b49473cf87501a56a7e0b&fmt=P

"Cinematic Promiscuity: Cinephilia after Videophilia," Framework (forthcoming, fall 2009)

"Rewind: sex, lies, and videotape at 20," Flow (10:7, summer 2009)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/?p=4246

"Digital Is Not a Noun," Flow (10:4, summer 2009)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/?p=4126

"Justice Is a Bitch: On Damages as Liberal Revenge Fantasy," Flow (10:1, summer 2009)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/?p=4014

“’More Than One Way to Love’”: On Kiki and Herb (But Mostly Kiki),” Camera Obscura, Issue 67 (Spring 2008)
PDF available at: http://cameraobscura.dukejournals.org/content/vol23/issue1_67/?etoc

“YouTube: Where Cultural Memory and Copyright Converge,” Film Quarterly, Vol. 61, Issue 1 (Fall 2007)
PDF available at: http://caliber.ucpress.net/toc/fq/61/1

Special issue editor, “Media Access: Technologies and Preservation,” Spectator, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring 2007)
Available at: http://cinema.usc.edu/programs/critical-studies/spectator/spectator-spring-2007-vol-272b.htm

“An Accidental Institution: Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee: An Interview with Claire Brandt," Spectator, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring 2007)
Available at: http://cinema.usc.edu/programs/critical-studies/spectator/spectator-spring-2007-vol-272b.htm

“Mediating Queer Boyhood: Dottie Gets Spanked” in The Cinema of Todd Haynes, edited by James Morrison (Wallflower Press, 2007)

“Retroactivism,” GLQ, Vol. 12, Issue 2 (Spring 2006)
PDF available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_lesbian_and_gay_studies/toc/glq12.2.html

Co-editor, with Kate Horsfield, Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews (Temple University Press, 2006)

“Conceptual Cinephilia: On Jon Routson’s Bootlegs,” in Cinephilia: Movies, Love, and Memory, edited by Marijke de Valck & Malte Hagener (Universiteit van Amsterdam Press, 2005)

“Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics,” Camera Obscura, Issue 57 (December 2004)
PDF available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/camera_obscura/toc/co19.3.html

Adaptation” (review essay), Film Quarterly, Vol. 58, Issue 1 (Fall 2004)
PDF available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3697263
   
Grant Humanities Center Research Grant (2008-09)
   
Professional
Societies
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
American Studies Association
College Art Association
   
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Last updated 09/14/2009