JAMES KENDRICK, PH.D.
Professor Department of Film & Digital Media Baylor University
One Bear Place #97321 Waco, Texas 76798-7368 (254) 710-6061 [email protected]
A CADEMIC E MPLOYMENT
Baylor University, Waco, TX (2005–present)
Professor, Department of Film & Digital Media (August 2018–present) Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Film & Digital Media (2015–present) Associate Professor, Department of Film & Digital Media (August 2011–August 2018) Assistant Professor, Department of Communication (August 2005–August 2011)
Courses Taught FAS 1116 Film & Global Culture FDM 2351 History of Motion Pictures FDM 2352 History of Radio and Television FDM 4340 Media & Society FDM 4343 Film/Video Aesthetics: Theory and Criticism FDM 4380 Violence and the American Screen (Topics in Media History) FDM 4386 The Horror Film (Topics in Media Genres) FDM 4397 Steven Spielberg and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Topics in Contemporary Cinema) FDM 5356 Masters of International Cinema (graduate seminar) FDM 5376 Contemporary Film Theory (graduate seminar)
Indiana University, Bloomington (1999–2003)
Associate Instructor, Department of Communication and Culture
Courses Taught: C190 Introduction to Media C121 Public Speaking
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E DUCATION
Indiana University, Bloomington Doctor of Philosophy, Communication and Culture (2005) Minor: American Studies Dissertation: Screen Violence and the New Hollywood (Advisor: Joan Hawkins)
Baylor University, Waco, TX Master of Arts, Journalism (1999) Thesis: Critical Choices in Print and Cyberspace: A Content Analysis of Three Print-Based Film Critics and Three Internet-Based Film Critics (Advisor: Kyle V. Cole)
Baylor University, Waco, TX Bachelor of Arts, English (1996)
P UBLICATIONS
Authored Books
Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg. Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 2014.
Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre. Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, London, 2009.
Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 2009.
Edited Books
A Companion to the Action Film. In publication at Wiley-Blackwell, Walden, MA, 2019.
Book Chapters
“Extreme Violence and Western Cinema.” Chapter in The Cambridge World History of Violence, Volume 4: The Modern World, edited by Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn, and Jay Winter. In publication, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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“‘Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn’: Chaos and Terror in Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler and The Dark Knight.” Chapter in Screening Terrorism: Cinematic Representations of Terrorism and State Terror, edited by Michael Flynn and Fabiola Salek. In publication at Columbia University Press, New York, 2019.
“Finding His Voice: Experimentation and Innovation in Duel, The Sugarland Express, and 1941.” Chapter in A Companion to Steven Spielberg, edited by Nigel Morris. Wiley- Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, 2017.
“The Terrible, Horrible Desire to Know: Post-9/11 Horror Remakes, Reboots, Sequels, and Prequels.” Chapter in American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11, edited by Terence McSweeney. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
“An Improbable Career: The Films of Terrence Malick.” Chapter in Theology and the Films of Terrence Malick, edited by Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Ellston. Routledge, New York, 2016.
“Ambiguous Loss: The Depiction of Child Abduction in Spielberg’s Early Films.” Chapter in Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg, edited by Adrian Schober and Debbie Olson. Lexington Books, Washington, DC, 2016.
“Slasher Films and Gore in the 1980s.” Chapter in A Companion to the Horror Film, edited by Harry Benshoff. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, 2014.
“The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact and Legacy of Jaws,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Amistad,” “Catch Me If You Can,” “Minority Report,” “The Terminal,” “War of the Worlds.” Chapter entries in The Take2 Guide to Steven Spielberg, edited by Adam Zanzie. New York: Take2 Publishing, 2014.
“A Return to the Graveyard: Notes on the Spiritual Horror Film.” Chapter in American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium, edited by Steffen Hantke, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, 2010.
“Representing the Unrepresentable: 9/11 on Film and Television.” Chapter in Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History, edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2008.
“A Nasty Situation: Social Panics, Transnationalism, and the Video Nasty.” Chapter in Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear, edited by Steffen Hantke, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, 2004.
“Jacob’s Ladder” and “Häxan.” Chapter entries in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider, Quintet Publishing, London, 2004.
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Journal Articles
“Phantom Cinema: Illuminating the Structuring Absences of Film History.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, January 2013, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 62–73.
“Disturbing New Pathways: Psycho and the Priming of the Audience.” Journal of Popular Film and Television, March 2010, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 2–9.
“Razors in the Dreamscape: Revisiting A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Slasher Film.” Film Criticism, Spring 2009, Vol., 33, No. 3, pp. 17–33.
“Aspect Ratios and Joe Six-Packs: Home Theater Enthusiasts’ Battle to Legitimize the DVD Experience.” The Velvet Light Trap, Fall 2005, No. 56, pp. 58–70.
“Danish Horror: A Witches’ Brew of Fact, Fiction, and Spectacle: Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (The Witch, 1922).” Kinoeye, October 13, 2003, Vol. 3, No. 11, http://www.kinoeye.org/03/11/kendrick11.php.
“What is the Criterion? The Criterion Collection as an Archive of Film as Culture.” Journal of Film and Video, Summer/Fall 2001, Vol. 53, Nos. 2 & 3, pp. 124–139.
“Marxist Ideology in Three Films by James Cameron.” Journal of Popular Film and Television, Fall 1999, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 36–44.
Bibliographies
“Action Cinema.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies, edited by Krin Gabbard. Oxford University Press, New York, 2015.
Film and Book Reviews and Other Articles
“Review of The Fascination of Film Violence by Henry Bacon.” Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, Summer 2018, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 113–118.
“The Many Shades of Red: On New Hollywood Violence, edited by Steven Jay Schneider.” Film-Philosophy, 2006, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 104–108.
“A Greatly Exaggerated Death: The Persistent Power of the Cinema.” Baylor Magazine, Summer 2006, p. 25.
“Review of Hindle Wakes (1927), directed by Maurice Elvey.” The Moving Image, Spring 2006, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 139–142.
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More than 2,900 feature-length film reviews published at The QNetwork (http://www.qnetwork.com), an entertainment content-provider web site (1997–present)
I NVITED P RESENTATIONS
“Spielberg’s Master Image: Close Encounters of the Third Kind 40 Years Later.” Lecture given at a special 40th anniversary screening at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, November 16, 2017. Also introduced a special screening of The Sugarland Express at the University of Toledo, November 17, 2017.
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Film Violence.” Lecture given at Indiana University, Bloomington, sponsored by the Violence Students Network, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Also participated in a panel discussion titled “The U.S., Japan, and Argentina: Transnational Horror Film Violence,” March 28, 2017.
“Defamiliarizing Popular Culture Through Media Literacy.” Presentation at the “Multiple Literacies: Reading and Writing Diverse Texts in a Digital Age” symposium, sponsored by Baylor’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, April 15, 2016.
“Rethinking Steven Spielberg.” Presentation at LoneStaRG 17, the annual convention of Lone Star Mensa, Round Rock, TX, Sept. 6, 2015.
“More Than Just a Slideshow: Effective Uses of PowerPoint in the Classroom.” Presented multiple times for Baylor’s Summer Faculty Institute (June 2014–2015) and as a Seminar for Excellence in Teaching presentation, sponsored by Baylor’s Academy for Teaching & Learning (March 4, 2014; January 20, 2016).
“The Church and the Zombie Apocalypse.” Panel discussion with Dr. Joe Coker, Dr. Elise Edwards, and Dr. Jim Kennedy, sponsored by Baylor’s Department of Religion, March 26, 2015.
“Defamiliarizing Popular Culture.” Presentation at the Provost Faculty Forum, Baylor University, November 6, 2013.
“Rethinking Steven Spielberg.” Presentation at the 20th Century Studies Research Seminar, Department of English, Baylor University, October 8, 2010.
“Breaking Racial Barriers and Overcoming Stereotypes.” Introduction to a special preview of The Express at the Waco Hippodrome Theater, sponsored by the Baylor Activities Council, Oct. 9, 2008
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“Violence in the Media and Cultural Stereotyping.” Introduction to a special preview of The Kingdom at the Waco Hippodrome Theater and facilitation of a post-screening discussion, sponsored by the Baylor Activities Council, Sept. 21, 2007.
C ONFERENCE P RESENTATIONS
“Horror and Hope: Thematic Coherence in the Radically Different Endings of The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 11, 2012.
“Darkness in the Bliss-Out: Reconsidering Steven Spielberg in the 1980s.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, April 22, 2011.
“Internet Criticism 15 Years Later.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, CA, March 21, 2010.
“‘Think, Mortal, What It Is to Die’: What the Graveyard Poets Can Tell Us About Modern Horror.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Literature/Film Association, Dickinson College, October 17, 2009.
“Exploding Heads Monthly: Fangoria, Graphic Violence, and Horror Films of the 1980s.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans, LA, April 10, 2009.
“Controlling Content, Controlling Hollywood: Historical Continuities Between the Production Code and the MPAA Ratings System.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 9, 2008.
“Empty Spaces: The Role of Missing Films in Cinema History.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the University Film & Video Association, Denton, TX, August 11, 2007.
“Phantom Cinema: Illuminating the Structuring Absences of Film History.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March 10, 2007. Also served as panel chair for “Forgotten Histories.”
“Return of the Return of the Repressed: The Role of Post-9/11 American Horror.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the American Studies James Kendrick Curriculum Vitae 7
Association of Texas, “Images of the South, West, and Texas,” Waco, TX, November 17, 2006.
“The Violence of 9/11 in Documentary and Feature Film Traditions.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the Film & History League conference, “The Documentary Tradition,” Dallas, TX, November 8–12, 2006.
“Splitting Hairs in the Alphabet Soup: The Road From R to PG-13.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, Canada, March 4, 2006. Served as panel chair for “Hollywood Histories.”
“Images Without Precedent: My Lai, Sand Creek, and the Mythological Heritage of American Violence in Soldier Blue.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the Literature/Film Association and Film & History League conference, “War in Film, Television, and History,” Dallas, TX, November 13, 2004.
“OAR vs. J6P: The Construction of Taste, Knowledge, and Legitimacy on the Home Theater Forum.” Ppresented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, MN, March 8, 2003. Served as panel chair for “New Technologies: Changing Spectatorship and Exhibition Practices.”
“Signifiers of Artifice: Examining a Poetics of Realism in Cinematic Violence.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, Denver, CO, May 26, 2002.
“What is the Criterion? The Criterion Collection as Archive of Film as Culture.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, Washington, DC, May 24, 2001.
“Journalistic and Humanist Approaches: Movie Reviews in The New Yorker and Entertainment Weekly.” Presented at a moderated panel session at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD, August 8, 1998.
A WARDS, G RANTS, & H ONORS
Semester Research Leave (Baylor University) to work on A Companion to 2016 the Action Film
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Baylor Fellow (Recognizes professors across the disciplinary spectrum 2013–2014 who exemplify excellence in teaching. Baylor Fellows are committed to pedagogical innovation, inspirational teaching, and the cultivation of these among Baylor faculty.)
Semester Research Leave (Baylor University) to work on Darkness in the 2012 Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg
Summer Sabbatical (Baylor University) to complete work on Film 2008 Violence: History, Ideology, Genre
University Research Grant (Baylor University) to travel to Columbia 2006–2007 University to research the papers and oral histories of Richard D. Heffner, former chairman of the Classification and Rating Administration
Outstanding Associate Instructor Award, Department of Communication 2002 and Culture, Indiana University
D ISSERTATIONS, T HESES, & S ENIOR P ROJECTS
Master’s Thesis / Professional Paper Director
Max Romanowski, From the Living Room to the “Study Table”: The Evolution of the Sitcom Family, 2018. Kristina Beevers, What Is Gold? Narrative Structure, Technological Development, and Audience Behavior in Sitcoms, 2015 Joshua Wucher, The Building of the X-Men Transmedia Franchise and How Expansive Storytelling Is Affecting Hollywood, 2014 James Blake Ewing, Criticizing the Moving Mirror: On the Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami, 2013 David Roark, Girls With Guns: Understanding Gender and Violence in Contemporary Action Cinema, 2011 Stacy Chen, Vigilante Justice and Insurgent Freedom: A Post-9/11 Film Study, 2009 Felix Gonzalez, What’s the Matter With Bigamy? The American Family in the Wartime Comedies of Preston Sturges, 2009 Cameron Weed, The Zombie Manifesto: The Marxist Revolutions in George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, 2009 Smith Getterman, Walt Disney World: An Analysis of Its Mid-Twentieth Century American Values, 2007
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Doctoral Dissertation Committees
Kimberly Hickman, The Elkins Hypnotizability Scale: Validity, Reliability, Normative Data, and Acceptability within a Post-Menopausal Sample (Psychology), 2017 Yara Farah, Factors Influencing Beginning Teachers’ Instructional Practices With Diverse Students (Curriculum and Instruction), 2015 Brandi R. Ray, More Than Tools: Can Media Literacy Emerge from Teacher Development in Technology?: A Narrative Study (Curriculum and Instruction), 2015 Bianca Ochoa, Teaching Preservice Teacher Candidates to Differentiate Instruction (Educational Psychology), 2013 Angela Beard, Exposure Effects of Hegemonic Masculinity in Men’s Magazines (Psychology), 2012 Todd Kettler, An Analysis of Critical Thinking Skills With Gifted and General Education Students: Relationships Between Cognitive, Achievement, and Demographic Variables (Educational Psychology), 2012 Denka G. Markova, Topics in Odds Ratio Estimation in the Case-Control Studies and the Bioequivalence Testing in the Cross-Over Studies (Statistical Science), 2011 Krystal Knops Goree, An Exploratory Study of the Factors That Influence Pre-service Teachers’ Instructional Practices With Diverse Students (Educational Psychology), 2011 Ikuko Aoyama, Cyberbullying: What Are the Psychological Profiles of Bullies, Victims, and Bully-Victims? (Education Psychology), 2010
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Committees
Cason Murphy, Nora (Theatre Arts), 2016 David Reed, The Ruby Sunrise (Theater Arts), 2012
Master’s Thesis / Professional Paper/Project Committees
Zachary Sheldon, A Phenomenology of Digital Characters, 2018 Jacob Robinson, Writing and Directing the Short Film, Barry, 2017 Clint Keller, The Lord’s Realm: Directing, 2016 KC Kennicutt, The Lord’s Realm: Cinematography, 2016 Brynn Sankey, Writing and Directing the Short Film, Stray, 2015 Philip Heinrich, In Paradise: A Feature Film, 2014. Maverick Moore, Editing as Directing: Editing the Feature Film In Paradise, 2014. Aaron Youngblood, The Cinematography of In Paradise, 2014. Bob Oei, The Cinematography of Closet Memories, 2013 Grant Hall, Editing Closet Memories: Theory and Methodology, 2013 Aimee Johnson, Investigation of a Brief Measure of Psychological Distress: Factor and Confirmatory Analyses in a Psychiatric and Collegiate Sample (Psychology), 2012 Jared Wheeler, Inventing Dixie: Literary Adaptation and the Hollywood Southern (English), 2010 Dianna Anderson, Harry Potter and the Search for a Church: Spiritual Community and Sacrificial Love in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series (English), 2010 James Kendrick Curriculum Vitae 10
Dustin Greenwalt, Affective Identification With Animals in the Public Sphere in Earth, the Movie, 2010 Holland White, “The True Artist-Seer, the Heavenly Fool”: The Transformation of the Artist in J.D. Salinger’s Publications (English), 2009 Brian Downey, Welcome to Nowhere, 2009 Kat Adams, More Attachment to Life, & Larger: Orlando and Woolf’s Theories of Fiction (English), 2008
Honors Thesis Director
Ellie Jurden, Female Action Heroes in Film and Comic Books, 2019 Stephen Jannise, Landmarks of Fear: Cultural Reflections in American Horror Films, 2008 Shannon Willis, Out From the Shadow: A Reevaluation of the Works of Orson Welles, 2007
Honors Thesis Committee
Abigail Higgins, Evangelical Responses to Science Fiction Film and Television, 1960–1980 (History), 2018 Ben Gregory, A Storyteller’s Journey, 2017 Alexis Hitchcock, A Dark Mirror: Duality and Reflection in Stephen King’s Writers (English), 2014 Teal Dodrill, The Mason Jar (English), 2013 Emily Bailey, The Effects of Sexual Content in Media Primarily on Women and Adolescents in Contemporary Society, 2007
Independent Study Director
Clint Keller, Drug Effects: RED Camera Tests (Graduate Study), 2015 John Cook, Product Placement and Television Advertising (Graduate Study), 2014 Ashley Morgan, Witchy Women: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Witchcraft in American Horror Story (Graduate Study), 2014 Katarzyna Plazinska, Master Filmmakers: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Fassbinder, Hitchcock, Deren (Graduate Study), 2011 Anthony Jacobs, The History of the Slasher Film, 2010 Katherine Robertson, Cinema Studies in Western Europe: Globalization and Its Effects, 2010 Rachel Boyd, Film Combat (Honors Independent Study), 2008 Alex Le, The Modern Hollywood Blockbuster, 2008 Smith Getterman, Graphic Novels and Film: A Semiotic Analysis of Their Political Ideologies, 2007 Shannon Willis, The Problems of Cinema Spectatorship, 2007 Megan Snipes, Hollywood Cinema of the 1930s, 2006 Shannon Willis, Explicit Material and the Fight for the Cinema in the 1950s, 2006
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S ERVICE
Professional Service Co-organizer and presenter for “The Dark Mirror,” an annual horror 2010–2013 film festival presented at McLennan Community College, Waco, TX
Member of the Board of Directors, Waco Performing Arts Co. 2008–2014
Book Manuscript Reviewer: Oxford University Press, Bedford/St. Martin’s, University Press of Kentucky, Sage, Southern Illinois University Press
Article Manuscript Reviewer: Cinema Journal, Southern Communication Journal, Film-Philosophy
University Service
Committee Service
Cultural Events Experience committee 2018–
College of Arts and Sciences A&Spire Technology in the Classroom 2014–2017 committee
Beall-Russell Endowed Lecture Series committee member 2011–2014
Communications/Media Committee member 2009–present Served as chair of the committee (2010–present)
ELG Selection Committee and ELG Review Panel member 2009–2010
Other University Service
Presentation on effective uses of PowerPoint at the Summer Faculty 2014–2015 Institute (SFI)
Assisted in the organization and planning of the 2014 Baylor 2014 Symposium on Faith and Culture: “Faith and Film,” sponsored by the Institute for Faith and Learning and the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion
Faculty Advisor, Baylor Film Society 2010–2012 James Kendrick Curriculum Vitae 12
Faculty Advisor, Baylor MGM Film Club 2008–2009
Commencement Marshal, Baylor University 2006–2011
Speaker, OneBU Movie Night Oct. 26, 2007 Facilitated a discussion about issues of race, class, and education following a screening of Freedom Writers, sponsored by OneBU and Campus Living & Learning.
Department Service
Undergraduate Program Director 2015–present
Coordinator for the annual Black Glasses Student Film Festival 2006–present
Coordinator for the Texas Independent Film Network screening series 2010–2013
Assistant Supervisor, Digital Convergence Initiative’s March 2006 Comanche Bit Trail Project
Undergraduate student advising 2005–present
P ROFESSIONAL & A SSOCIATION M EMBERSHIPS
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) University Film & Video Association (UFVA) Literature/Film Association (LFA) Popular Culture Association (PCA) Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association (SWTX PCA/ACA) Online Film Critics Society (OFCS)
Last updated: April 19, 2018