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Amanda Klein joined the English faculty in the fall of 2007 and teaches courses in film history, theory and aesthetics. She is currently working on a manuscript tracing an historical, cultural and theoretical genealogy for the controversial “ghetto action cycle” of the 1990s, which includes such popular entries as Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society. This project also develops several interrelated theories about the applications and implications of a cycle-based approach to genre theory, including the significance and function of the film cycle in defining genres, articulating social problems, shaping subcultures and exploiting contemporary prejudices. Her other primary research and teaching interests include film historiography, African American cinema, exploitation cinema, television studies and star culture.
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
M.A. University of Pittsburgh
B.A. Cornell University
Areas of Interest
Film, Television and Media Studies
Genre Theory and History
Media Historiography
Courses Taught
4910: Survey of Film Studies
2900: Introduction to Film Studies
Selected Publications and Presentations
“From Greaser to Gangsta: The Changing Face of the Filmic Juvenile Delinquent.” Media(ted) Deviance and Social Otherness: Interrogating Influential Representations Ed. Kylo-Patrick Hart and Metasebia Woldemariam. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. (forthcoming in 2007)
“Work/Love/Film: Exploring the Ambiguities of Definition in Godard’s Passion.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 24.1 (2007): 41-51.
“Realism, Melodrama or Horror?: The Depiction of Divorce in David Cronenberg’s The Brood.” Excavatio 22.1-2 (2007): 161-172.
“The Noir of Neptune.” Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars. Ed. Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella Books, Inc.: 2007. 82-93.
“‘The Horse Doesn’t Get a Credit’: Analyzing the Western Syntax of Deadwood’s Opening Credits.” Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By. Ed. David Lavery. London: I.B. Tauris & Co., Ltd., 2006. 93-100.
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