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JEREMY G. BUTLER

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Department of Telecommunication and Film
The University of Alabama
P. O. Box 870152
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0152
(205) 348-6350
Fax: (205) 348-2754
Internet: jeremy@tcf.ua.edu

POSITION SOUGHT

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EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Northwestern University, Film Studies, 1982. Dissertation: "Toward a Theory of Cinematic Style: The Remake."
  
• M.A., Northwestern University, Film Studies, 1977.
  
• B.A., Brown University, Film Studies, 1976.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The University of Alabama

• Associate Professor, Department of Telecommunication and Film. Granted tenure, August 1986. 1986-
  
• Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunication and Film, l980-1985.

Northwestern University

• Teaching Assistant, Radio-TV-Film Department, 1977-1979.
  
• Grader, Radio-TV-Film Department, 1977.

Wright College (Chicago, Illinois)

• Instructor, Evening Division, 1979.

COURSES TAUGHT

The University of Alabama:

• Star Images, Star Performances (graduate seminar)
  
• Approaches to Film Style (graduate seminar)
  
• Introduction to Film Theory (graduate seminar)
  
• Contemporary Film Theory (graduate seminar)
  
• Seminar in American Cinema
  
• Motion Picture History and Criticism (intro. survey)
  
• Film Fundamentals (16mm filmmaking)
  
• The French Film
  
• The German Film
  
• Western European Cinema
  
• Melodrama and Soap Opera
  
• Women/Cinema/Ideology
  
• Critical Studies in Television
  
• Television Workshop
  
• Broadcast Criticism
  
• Introduction to Mass Communication

Northwestern University:

• Introduction to Film History and Criticism (teaching assistant)

Wright College:

• The John Ford/John Wayne Westerns

RESEARCH ACTIVITY AND PUBLICATIONS

Publications (books):

1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994.
   
2. Butler, Jeremy G., ed. Star Texts: Image and Performance in Film and Television. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.

Publications (articles and book chapters):

1. Butler, Jeremy G. "Redesigning Discourse: Feminism, the Sitcom and Designing Women." Journal of Film and Video 45, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 13-26.
   
2. Butler, Jeremy G. "Viva Zapata!: HUAC and the Mexican Revolution." In The Steinbeck Question, 239-249. Edited by Don Noble. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1993.
   
3. Butler, Jeremy G. "'I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV': Characters, Actors and Acting in Television Soap Opera." Cinema Journal 30, no. 4 (Summer 1991): 75-91. Reprinted in Robert C. Allen, ed. To Be Continued . . . Soap Operas Around the World, 145-163. New York: Routledge, 1995.
   
4. Butler, Jeremy G. "Star Images, Star Performances." (College Course File) Journal of Film and Video 42, no. 4 (Winter 1990): 49-66.
   
5. Butler, Jeremy G. "The Politics of Monogamy and Romance: Ideology and the Soap Opera." In Politics in Familiar Contexts: Projecting Politics Through Popular Media, pp. 139-158. Edited by Robert L. Savage and Dan Nimmo. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1990.
   
6. Butler, Jeremy G. "Imitation of Life: Style and the Domestic Melodrama." Jump Cut, 32 (April 1987), pp. 25-28. Reprinted in Imitation of Life, pp. 289-301. Edited by Lucy Fischer. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991.
   
7. Butler, Jeremy G. "Notes on the Soap Opera Apparatus: Televisual Style and As the World Turns." Cinema Journal, Spring 1986, pp. 53-70.
   
8. Butler, Jeremy G. "Miami Vice: The Legacy of Film Noir." Journal of Popular Film and Television, Fall 1985, pp. 126-138.
   
9. Butler, Jeremy G. "The Raw and the Cooked 1984: Three Recent Films." Journal of Film and Video, Fall 1985, pp. 5-14.
   
10. Butler, Jeremy G. "A Bout De Souffle." "Masculin-Feminin." "Pierrot Le Fou." "Vivre Sa Vie." "WR-Mysteries of the Organism." In Magill's Survey of the Cinema: Foreign Films. Edited by Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1985.
    
11. Butler, Jeremy G. "A Compendium of Stylistic Interpretation." Film Reader, 5 (1982), pp. 285-299.
    
12. Butler, Jeremy G. Daily Northwestern. Weekly film commentary, 1977 to 1980.

Recent Papers and Reports

1. Butler, Jeremy G. "Redesigning (?) Discourse: The Case of Designing Women." Paper presented to the Society for Cinema Studies, New Orleans, 1992.
   
2. Butler, Jeremy G. "Slinking Toward Shklovsky: Television and the Neoformalist Project." Paper presented to the Society for Cinema Studies, Los Angeles, 1991.
   
3. Butler, Jeremy G. "Hometown Discursive Hierarchies: Gender Relations and Popular Culture in Mayberry." Paper presented to the Society for Cinema Studies, Iowa City, Iowa, 1989.
   
4. Butler, Jeremy G. "'I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV': The Construction of Character in Television Soap Opera." Paper presented to the Society for Cinema Studies, Montreal, 1987.
   
5. Butler, Jeremy G. "Notes on the Soap Opera Apparatus: Televisual Style and As the World Turns." Paper presented to the University Film and Video Association, Athens, Ohio, 1986.
   

Book Reviews

1. Butler, Jeremy G. "Only Entertainment." Film Quarterly 47, no. 3 (Spring 1994): 60-61. A review of the book by Richard Dyer.
   
2. Butler, Jeremy G. "Channels of Discourse." Journal of Film and Video 40 no. 2 (Spring 1989): 52-57. A review of the book edited by Robert C. Allen.
   
3. Butler, Jeremy G. "The Films of Werner Herzog." International Communication Bulletin 23 nos. 1-2 (Spring 1988): 26-27. A review of the book by Timothy Corrigan.
   
4. Butler, Jeremy G. "The Social Problem Film." Jump Cut 28 (April 1983), pp. 62-63. A review of The Hollywood Social Problem Film, by Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy.
   
5. Butler, Jeremy G. "The Hollywood Musical: Peel Away the Tinsel." Jump Cut, 31 (winter 1986), pp. 17-18. A review of the book by Jane Feuer.

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE

Film Production

1. Producer, director, cinematographer, Elevator Doors, super-8 film, 3 min., 1982
   
2. Producer, director, cinematographer, Tuscaloosa: It's Unique, super-8 film, 13 min., 1981.
   
3. Producer, director, cinematographer, Film Fundamentals, super-8 film, 7 min., 1981.
   
4. Co-producer, co-director, co-cinematographer, co-sound (with Lilly Boruszkowski), Washday, 16 mm film, 25 min., 1979.
   
5. Producer, director, cinematographer, sound, Hommage Kit, 16 mm film, 8 min.; producer, director, cinematographer, sound, Intro to Film History and Criticism, 16 mm film, 10 min., 1978.
   
6. Producer, director, cinematographer, sound, Threshold of Boredom, 16 mm, 7 min., sound, 1977.

Film Exhibition

• Sandburg Theater, Chicago, Illinois (Programming consultant), l979-1980.
  
• Devon Theater, Chicago, Illinois (Manager), 1979.
  
• Carnegie Hall Cinema, New York, New York (Manager), 1978.

Videotape production

• Co-producer, co-director, scriptwriter, Man with a Video Camera, 33 min., produced at University Television Services, The University of Alabama, 1983.

Radio

• WUAL/WQPR, Tuscaloosa/Muscle Shoals, Alabama (producer and host, "All Things Acoustic"), 1993-
  
• WVUA-FM, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (announcer), 1983-1988, 1992.
  
• WNUR-FM, Evanston, Illinois (announcer), 1976-1978.
  
• WBRU-FM and WBRU-AM, Providence, Rhode Island (FM music director, 1975-1976; FM production director, 1976; FM announcer, 1973-1976; AM program director, 1974-1975; AM announcer, 1972-1973).

FILM/TELEVISION-RELATED SERVICE

• Referee, Wadsworth Publishers, 1993.
  
• Referee, McGraw-Hill, 1990.
  
• Referee, Cinema Journal, 1988-present.
  
• Referee, Journal of Film and Video, 1990-present.
  
• Reader, The University of Alabama Press, 1983-present.
  
• Faculty advisor, Films Division, Union Programs, The University of Alabama, 1984-present.
  
• Film consultant, Women Studies Program, The University of Alabama, 1980-present.
  
• Chairman, University Cinema Society, The University of Alabama, 1981-1986. Member, 1980.
  
• President, Film Society, Northwestern University, 1977. Programmer, 1978-1979. Member, 1976-1980. Member, A&O Film Board, Northwestern University, 1978-1980.
  
• Booker, Brown Film Society, Brown University, 1975-1976. Member, 1974-1976.

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION PROJECTS

• PoV Bulletin Board System (co-founder and system operator), 1990- .
  
• SCREEN-L, an international e-mail discusion group (founder and moderator), 1991-.
  
• SCREENsite, a World Wide Web site (founder and system administrator), 1994-.
  
• Editor, Folk/Acoustic Radio List (a listing of folk and acoustic radio programs, distributed through the Internet), 1993-.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Society for Cinema Studies
  
• University Film and Video Association
  
• National Alumni Schools Program, Brown University

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• "New Directions in Film: The Canadian Avant-Garde," Alabama Humanities Foundation; film series, spring 1988.
  
• School of Communication, The University of Alabama; to study character and performance in soap opera, Fall 1986.
  
• School of Communication, The University of Alabama; to study the televisual style of soap opera, Spring 1984.
  
• School of Communication, The University of Alabama; to study the image of women in the film Niagara, Fall 1982.
  
• School of Communication, The University of Alabama; to develop program notes for University Cinema Society, Fall 1982.
  
• School of Communication, The University of Alabama; to analyze the relationship of cinematic style and genre in Imitation of Life, Fall 1981.
  
• Northwestern University, Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1979.

REFERENCES

James A. Brown, Associate Professor, University of Alabama
Chuck Kleinhans, Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Ellen Seiter, Professor, Indiana University