Biography

Greg M. Smith (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998) is a Professor whose books include:  Beautiful TV: The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal (Texas 2007), Film Structure and the Emotion System (Cambridge 2003), Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion (Johns Hopkins 1999, with C. Plantinga), and On a Silver Platter: CD-Roms and the Promises of a New Technology (NYU 1999).  His research has been published in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Television and New Media, Asian Cinema, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Cinema Journal, Animation Journal, and the Journal of Film and Video. Smith’s research interests span traditional media boundaries, and intersects film, television, new media, and comics scholarship.  He has twice won the department’s Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award.  He is currently working on a textbook entitled What Media Classes Really Want To Discuss (under contract to Routledge).  

Research Areas: Narration and Aesthetics; Television Studies; Film & Cognition; Comics Studies. Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Moving Image Studies), M.A. (Film & Video).

Core Graduate Seminars Regularly Taught: Narrative, Style, & Aesthetics; Advanced Film Theory; Issues and Perspectives in Communication Theory; Film History.