Anna Froula is currently working on a book on popular representations of American servicewomen. She is also completing a project about the satiric authority of Comedy Central's Rob Riggle and Stephen Colbert on the Iraq war.
Degrees
B.A. Birmingham-Southern College
M.A. University of Kentucky
Ph.D. University of Kentucky
Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Film studies
American war studies
Women's studies
Zombie studies
Courses Taught
5350: Special Studies in Film
4985: Issues in Cinema and Culture
4980: Topics in Film Aesthetics
3300: Women and Literature
2900: Introduction to Film Studies
2000: Interpreting Literature
3901: History of Film II
4910: War Cinema
4920: Contemporary International and American Cinema
Selected Publications and Presentations
"Steampunked: The Aesthetic of Terry Gilliam in Jabberwocky and Beyond." The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It's a Mad World. Eds. Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell. New York: Wallflower Press/Columbia UP. Forthcoming.
"'9/11--What's That?': Trauma, Temporality, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" Cinema Journal. 51.1. In Focus: The Long Shadow of 9/11. 174-179. Forthcoming, Fall 2011.
Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture, and the "War on Terror." Eds. Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell. New York: Continuum, 2010.
"Prolepsis and the 'War on Terror': Zombie Pathology and the Culture of Fear in 28 Days Later..." In Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture, and the "War on Terror." Eds. Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell. New York: Continuum, 2010. 195-208.
"Free a Man to Fight: The Figure of the Female Soldier in World War II Popular Culture." Journal of War and Culture Studies. 2.2 (2009): 153-65.
Website Links
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