email:
efaden@bucknell.edu

snail mail:
112 vaughan literature hall
bucknell university
lewisburg, pa 17837

Special note: I receive many requests for permission to show the film A Fair(y) Use Tale. This film is licensed under a Creative Commons license which means you do not need to request permission. You can just download and show it. It's free. Yes, seriously, it is. I love hearing from people who use the film (and even those who hate it--I admit the film is kind of annoying) but no need for permission. If you absolutely, positively must own a physical copy of the film, you can buy it from The Media Education Foundation.

And check out Teaching Copyright.org which incorporates the film into a lesson plan for teachers.

My research primarily focuses on how technology impacts film style and film content across history. I'm especially interested in how recent digital technologies repeat formal and thematic patterns found in pre- and early cinema.

RECENT WORK:
"A Review of 'Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film,'" Quarterly Review of Film and Video (27.4, 2010): 337 – 340

"A Manifesto for Critical Media," Mediascape (spring, 2008)

"Movables, Movies, and Mobility," Early Popular Visual Culture (5.1, April 2007) 71 - 91.

"Chronophotography and The Digital Image," Arret Sur Image (Francois Albera, Andre Gaudreault, and Marta Braun, eds., Luasanne, Switzerland: Payot, 2002) 335 - 345. Recently translated into Italian for Oltre il cinema. Per una nuova storia dei media dalla pre-televisione a Internet, forthcoming 2011, Dino Audino Editore.

FORTHCOMING:
Film Theory into Practice, an introductory textbook for Bedford/St. Martin's.

I produce multimedia works that imagine how academic scholarship works as an audio/visual medium. I also occasionally work as a commercial writer and director.

IN PRODUCTION:
I'm currently developing a feature film and web-based project called Within The Law that recreates a lost 1917 silent film. Peter Kaufman of Intelligent Television is executive producing.

I teach a wide variety of courses in film/media studies from introductory courses to advanced production seminars.

Recent courses I've offered include: ENGL 130 - Introduction to Film/Media Studies, ENGL 234 - History of Hollywood,
ENGL 337 - Film Theory, ENGL 339 - Seminar in Film/Video Production, and ENGL 336 - Auteurs: Hitchcock and Lynch