Steven Cohan

Professor Steven Cohan teaches courses and supervises graduate research in film studies, popular culture, gender and sexualities, and cultural studies. His books include Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative (1988, co-authored with Linda M. Shires), Screening the Male (1993, co-edited with Ina Rae Hark), The Road Movie Book (1997, co-edited with Ina Rae Hark), Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties (1997), Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader (2001), Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical (2005), and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008). His essays have appeared in Camera Obscura and Screen, as well as collections such as Out Takes: Film and Queer Theory (1999), Reinventing Film Studies (2000), Key Frames: Popular Film and Cultural Studies (2001), The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema (2004), and Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (2007). Some of his work has been translated into Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. At present he is editing a collection of essays on the musical for the British Film Institute, to be published in conjunction with a year-long series on the global musical, and he has begun researching a new book on films about filmmaking tentatively entitled Self-reflexive Hollywood. He was awarded the Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement in 2006.

Areas of supervision: Hollywood cinema, Popular Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Reception Studies, and Film & Narrative Theory. 

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