Biography

Professor Boozer is a scholar practitioner in Film Studies and in Adapting Literature to Film and Feature Screenwriting. His most recent book, Authorship in Film Adaptation (U Texas Press, 2008) is an edited collection of essays focusing on the process of literary adaptation to the screen including the role of the screenplay. His area of concentration in Film Studies is in film genres and the political economic and cultural dimensions of narrative construction. His former book is Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique (U Texas Press, 2002).

He has published essays in several film journals and books on a variety of contemporary Hollywood films from Blade Runner and Wall Street to Thelma and Louise, To Die For and Eyes Wide Shut. He is also a judge for a major international screenwriting competition.