Visual Culture

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Mal Ahern
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Eric Ames
Professor
Yomi Braester
Professor, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

Latest News

New Faculty Publications on Robots, Media Infrastructure, and "Alligator Alcatraz" (December 19, 2025)
From Film Festivals to Songbooks: A Symposium on the Pearson Collection (October 18, 2024)

Related Research

Mal Ahern and Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, eds, In Focus: Images and (Infra)structures, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 65, no. 1 (Fall 2025), 156-201.
Choi, Sarah. "Can We Just Work It Out? Spike Jonze's Short Choreographic Storytelling in Arcade Fire's 'Afterlife' (2013)." Short Film Studies 14, no. 1 (2024): 43-50, https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00109_1.
Choi, Sarah. "Cross-Generational Storytelling: A Conversation with Sasha Su-Ling Welland and Sabrina Craig." Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 9, Number 4, pps. 135–150.
Mal Ahern, "Climate Control, Modernism, and Mass Production," Discourse 45.1-2 (Fall 2023), 3-32.
Kim, Ungsan. “Cruising the Art Museum: On the Migration of Queer Experimental Cinema in South Korea,” JCMS 62.3 (Spring 2023): 191–196.
Choi, Sarah. "When Light Permeates Through: Inside Barbara Earl Thomas' Transformation Room." A Year in Black Art 5 (Fall 2022): 14-19.
Yuta Kaminishi. "The Transforming Mediascape in Postwar Japan: A Media History of Oshima Nagisa." Diss., 2021
Mal Ahern, "Climate Control and Modernist Aesthetics," public recorded talk, New Views of Modernism Symposium, University of Calgary, February 2021
Choi, Sarah. "Life, Death, or Something in between: Photographic Taxidermy in “Get out”(2017)." Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2021.1888606.
Mahadevan, Sudhir. 2018. A Very Old Machine: the Many Origins of the Cinema in India. Permanent Black/Orient Longman, India.