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Title: Associate Professor, Director of Film Studies
Department: English
Office: Fall 2009 Hours: Mon 2:45-4, BT 132; Tues 12:30-1:30, BT 132; and Thurs 12:30-1:30, Benson 308
Phone: (615) 322-2327 OR FS Office: 322-6968
Fax: (615) 343-8028
Email: paul.d.young@vanderbilt.edu
Degrees
- MA, English, University of Chicago (1991)
- PhD, English, University of Chicago (1998)
Research Area
- Film theory, criticism, and history; late 19th century and 20th century American literature
Current Research
- History and discourse of electrical and electronic media ontologies, 1830-present; discourses of realism in American film and film culture, 1893-1920
Current Courses
- Film Studies 125-01: Intro to Film Studies, F'09 (TR 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 103 Buttrick Hall; mandatory weekly screenings Sundays 4-6:30 OR Tuesdays 8:30-11)
- For information about the Film Studies program, please contact me or Ashley Crownover, the Film Studies administrator (615-343-8724).
Current Positions
Previous Positions
- Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies, Vanderbilt University, 2003-2007
- Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature, Colorado College, Colorado Springs CO, Spring 2003
- Assistant Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002-2003
- Assistant Professor of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998-2002
Professional Societies
Professional Honors
- E. Roe Stamps Award for Excellence in Teaching, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2002.
- Stuart Tave Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago, Spring 1998.
- Second Place, Society for Cinema Studies Student Essay Competition, 1997: “Straight Down the Line: Technology, Utopia, and Fate in Film Noir.”
Publications
- Selected Publications:
- Forthcoming: essays on Applause (1929) and Star Wars (1977) in Fifty Key American Films, ed. John White and Sabine Haenni (Routledge, Spring 2009).
- "Film Genre Theory and Contemporary Media: Description, Interpretation, Intermediality," The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies, ed. Robert Kolker (Oxford UP, 2008).
- "Telling Descriptions: Frank Norris's Kinetoscopic Naturalism and the Future of the Novel, 1899," Modernism/Modernity 14.4 (November 2007): 645-668.
- The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals: Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
- "No One Sees the Camps: Hitler and Humor in White Noise." Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise. Ed. John Duvall and Timothy Engles. New York: MLA Press, 2005.
- "Media on Display: A Telegraphic History of Early American Cinema." New Media 1740-1915. Ed. Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 2003.
- "(Not) The Last Noir Essay: Film Noir and the Crisis of Postwar Interpretation." minnesota review 55-57 (2002): 203-221.
- "The Negative Reinvention of Cinema: Late Hollywood in the Early Digital Age." Convergence (UK) 5.2 (Summer 1999): 24-50.
Biography
Paul Young first saw H. R. Pufnstuf: The Movie in an unairconditioned theater in March of 1975, and realized a few moments after being seated that the film merely anthologized old episodes of the TV series. This is probably when he decided to make his living either producing films or complaining about them. Forgetting this lesson, he found to his chagrin that architecture students were expected to design buildings that "stand up," and consequently received his BA in English at the University of Iowa in 1990. At Iowa, Dudley Andrew's tutelage in European film history made clear to him that, had François Truffaut had to sit through H. R. Pufnstuf: The Movie as a child, he would likely have figured that the French cinéma de qualité was just dandy by comparison and might never have launched the French New Wave. While Young neither produces films (much) nor complains about them (all that much) today, he believes that critical analysis and historical research provide a pleasing middle ground. He has lived happily in Nashville, among colleagues he adores, since 2003.
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