Jennifer Porst Curriculum Vitae November 2020
Department of Media Arts University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle #310589 Denton, TX 76203 [email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
University of North Texas 2017-present Assistant Professor
Emerson College Department of Visual & Media Arts 2015-2017 Lecturer
University of California, Los Angeles 2009, 2013, 2015 Visiting Lecturer
California State University, Long Beach 2014-2015 Visiting Lecturer
Santa Barbara City College 2014-2015 Adjunct Instructor
EDUCATION
2014 PhD, Cinema and Media Studies Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Disruptive Convergence: The Struggle Over the Licensing and Sale of Hollywood’s Feature Films to Television Before 1955
2008 MA, Cinema and Media Studies Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media University of California, Los Angeles
2003 MSEd, Secondary English School of Education and Social Policy Northwestern University
1998 BA, Communications and Theatre Department of Film, Television, and Theatre University of Notre Dame
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle Over Feature Films on Early TV. Monograph under contract with Rutgers University Press. Forthcoming 2021.
Very Special Episodes: Televising Industrial and Social Change. Anthology co-edited with Jonathan Cohn, Associate Professor at University of Alberta. Manuscript under contract with Rutgers University Press. Forthcoming 2021.
Refereed Journal Articles & Book Chapters
“Writing the History of U.S. Broadcasting: Challenges and Opportunities for Media Industry Scholars.” Routledge Companion to Media Industries. Ed. Paul McDonald. Under contract with Routledge. Co-authored with Deborah Jaramillo, Associate Professor at Boston University. Forthcoming 2021.
“‘Thanksgiving Orphans’: The Industrial and Cultural Logics of Special Holiday Episodes in the 1980s.” Very Special Episodes: Televising Industrial and Social Change. Eds. Jonathan Cohn and Jennifer Porst. Under contract with Rutgers University Press. Forthcoming 2021.
“A Very Special Introduction.” Very Special Episodes: Televising Industrial and Social Change. Co-authored with Jonathan Cohn, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Forthcoming 2021.
“Too black-ish? Banned Very Special Episodes.” Very Special Episodes: Televising Industrial and Social Change. Co-authored with Apryl Alexander, Associate Professor at the University of Denver. Forthcoming 2021.
“Saturday Night Live.” Television Memories. Ed. Bambi Haggins. Under contract with Rutgers University Press. Forthcoming.
“Roy Rogers and Gene Autry Do Not Endorse This Project: Actors, Advertising, and Feature Films on Early Television.” Television & New Media. 2019.
“The Preservation of Competition: Hollywood and Antitrust.” Hollywood and the Law. Eds. Paul McDonald, Philip Drake, Eric Hoyt, Emily Carman. London: BFI Publishing. 2015.
“The U.S. v. Twentieth Century-Fox, et al. and Hollywood’s Feature Films on Early Television.” Film History. 25:4. 2013.
“The Influence of Sound on the Visual Style in Renoir’s Tire au Flanc and La Chienne.” Studies in French Cinema. 11:3, Fall. 195-206. 2011.
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Online Publications
“This is What’s Really Cool About NFL Films: An Interview with Margaret Ruffing-Morris.” Mediascape, Fall. 5,225 words. Double-blind peer reviewed journal. 2009.
Contributions to Virtual Forums
“Lessons Learned from Sony’s Handling of The Interview, Theaters, and VOD.” In Media Res. 12 March. 350 words. 2015.
“Are Online Channels the Future of Television for Teens?” In Media Res. 28 November. 350 words. 2012.
“Breaking In a Formula for a Successful Network Sitcom.” In Media Res. May 16. 350 words. 2012.
Visual Essay
“Towards a New Genre of Video Games.” Co-created with David O’Grady and Drew Morton. Mediascape, Fall. 15 minutes. Each author researched and produced their own five minute segment. My section focused on the ways that Nintendo’s industrial imperatives influenced the style and functionality of the video games and consoles they produced. 2009.
CONFERENCE AND PRESENTATIONS
Panels Organized
2020 “Researching and Writing About the Historical and Contemporary Media Industries in the 21st Century.” Media Industry Studies 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions, London, England, April 16-18. *Cancelled due to COVID-19
2020 “NBC, Network Programming Strategies, and Audience Measurement in the 1980s and 1990s.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, CO, March 18-22. *Cancelled due to COVID-19
2018 “Creating Histories, Critiquing Sources: Piecing Together Media Histories from 1910- 1980s.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 14- 18.
2014 “Conflict and Collaboration: Analyzing the Form and Function of the Television Industry in the 1950s” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, WA, March 19-23.
2012 “Strategies for Researching and Writing Media Industry Studies” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston, MA, March 21-25.
2011 “Media Industries and the Law”
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 10-13.
2010 “From Paper to Blog: The Past, Present, and Future of Cinema and Media Studies Publishing” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 17-21.
Papers Presented
2020 “Trends in Historical Broadcast Industry Research, 2009-2019.” Media Industry Studies 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions, London, England, April 16-18. *Cancelled due to COVID-19
2020 “Thanksgiving TV, Audiences, and the Television Industry in the 1980s and 1990s.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, CO, March 18-22. *Cancelled due to COVID-19
2019 “’Thanksgiving Orphans’: A Very Special Thanksgiving Episode of Cheers, the TV Industry, and Sitcoms in the 1980s.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, WA, March 13-17.
2018 “Precarious Labor: Hollywood Unions’ Fight for Rights and Residuals in the Digital Age.” Media Industries: Current Debates and Future Directions, King’s College London, 18-20 April.
2018 “Teaching Shadows to Talk: Radio, Sound Film, and the Discourse of Media Industry Disruption.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 14-18. (Pre-constituted panel acceptance rate 76%).
2018 “’The Movies and You’: Hollywood’s Public Relations in Postwar America.” UNT Postwar Faculty Colloquium, Denton, TX, April 6.
2017 “Beyoncé’s and HBO’s Lemonade Stand: A Case Study of Exclusivity, Prestige, and Disruption in the Contemporary Media Industry.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 22-26. (Pre-constituted panel acceptance rate 68%).
2015 “The American Federation of Musicians and the Fight for Musicians’ Rights and Residuals in the Digital Age.” Inertia: A Conference on Sound, Media, and the Digital Humanities, UCLA, April 30-May 2. (No acceptance rate information available).
2015 “’The Movies and You’: COMPO, The MPAA, and the Film Industry’s Efforts at All- Industry Public Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 25-29. (Pre-constituted panel acceptance rate 80%).
2014 “The Television Industry’s Struggle Over the Licensing and Sale of Hollywood’s Feature Films to Television Before 1955”
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, WA, March 19-23. (Pre- constituted panel acceptance rate 76%).
2013 “The Sound Track Ban: The American Federation of Musicians’ Role in Excluding Feature Films from Television Before 1955” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 6-10
2012 “The Menace of 40 Million Little Home Theatres: Exhibitors Reaction to Hollywood’s Feature Films on Early Television” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston, MA, March 21-25
2011 “Roy Rogers and Gene Autry Do Not Endorse This Paper: Actors and Advertising in Feature Films on Television Before 1955” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 10-13
2010 "The US v. Twentieth Century-Fox, et al.: How the Forced Disclosure of Documents in Legal Cases Provides an Invaluable Resource for Researchers" On, Archives! Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, July 6-9
2007 “Awesome! I Shot That: User-Generated Content in Documentary Film” Media in Transition Conference at MIT, Boston, MA, April 27-29
Invited Talks
2020 “Publishing Broadcasting Hollywood: Disruption, Convergence, and Feature Films on Early Television.” UCLA’s Cinema and Media Studies Colloquium, May 20.
2019 “Contemporary Media, Copyright, and Fair Use.” Intellectual Property Panel, Denton Black Film Festival. 26 January 2019.
2015 “The American Federation of Musicians and the Fight for Musicians’ Rights and Residuals in the Digital Age.” Department of English and Media Studies, Bentley University, Waltham, MA. 16 November.
Roundtables and Workshops
2020 “The Importance of Broadcast History.” Panelist with Deborah L. Jaramillo (Associate Professor, Boston University), Miranda Banks (Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University), and Michele Hilmes (Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin, Madison). Virtual Event Sponsored by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Television Special Interest Group, 27 May.
2018 “Questioning the Wisdom of Laissez-Faire Regulation of Digital Media.” Flow Conference, University of Texas, Austin, September 27-29
2016 “Clearing the Distortion: TV History & Local Archives.” Flow Conference, University of Texas, Austin, September 15-17
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2014 “Looking Forward by Looking Back: The Role of Historical Inquiry in Current TV Studies” Flow Conference, University of Texas, Austin, September 11-13
2013 “Publishing on Digital Platforms” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 6-10
2012 “Tweens, Teens, and In Betweens: The Legacy of the WB” Flow Conference, University of Texas, Austin, November 1-3
2010 “Rethinking the Audience/Producer Relationship” Flow Conference, University of Texas, Austin, September 30-October 2
2010 “From Paper to Blog: The Past, Present, and Future of Cinema and Media Studies Publishing” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 17-21
2008 “Flow 2.0: The Struggle between Producers and Viewers for the Control of Television Content” Flow Conference, University of Texas, Austin, October 9-11
AWARDS & HONORS
2019 University of North Texas, the Office of University Accreditation’s Institutional Effectiveness Award 2015 University of California, Los Angeles, Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award 2012 University of California, Los Angeles’ School of Theater, Film, and Television’s Harold Leonard Award 2011 Susan Hayward Prize for the Best Article Published by a Doctoral Candidate in Studies in French Cinema 2010 Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Student Writing Award for “The 16mm Case: Hollywood’s Feature Films and Early Television” 2009 University of California, Los Angeles’ School of Theater, Film, and Television’s Jack K. Sauter Award
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2019 University of North Texas, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ Scholarly and Creative Activity Award 2018 University of North Texas, Office of the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs’ Junior Faculty Summer Research Support Award 2016 Emerson College Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellow 2016 National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) Faculty Fellow 2013-2014 University of California, Los Angeles’ Dissertation Year Fellowship 2012-2013 University of California, Los Angeles’ Collegium of University Teaching Fellows 2012 University of California, Los Angeles’ School of Theater, Film, and Television’s Hugh Downs Graduate Research Fellowship
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2010 University of California, Los Angeles’ School of Theater, Film, and Television’s Plitt Southern Theater Employees Trust Fellowship 2009-2010 University of California, Los Angeles’ Graduate Research Mentorship 2009 University of California, Los Angeles’ Graduate Summer Research Mentorship 2009 University of California, Los Angeles’ School of Theater, Film, and Television’s Hugh Downs Graduate Research Fellowship
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department of Media Arts, University of North Texas Assistant Professor Undergraduate Seminar, “Media Ethics” Fall 2020 Undergraduate Seminar, “It’s Not TV, It’s HBO” Fall 2017, Fall 2020 Graduate Seminar, “It’s Not TV, It’s HBO” Fall 2017, Fall 2020 Undergraduate Seminar, “Media Law and Regulations” Fall 2017-Fall 2020 Graduate Seminar, “Media Law and Regulations” Fall 2017-Spring 2020 Undergraduate Seminar, “Introduction to Media Industry Studies” Fall 2019 Graduate Seminar, “Understanding Media Industries” Fall 2019 Undergraduate Seminar, “Digital Distribution” Spring 2019 Graduate Seminar, “Digital Distribution” Spring 2019 Undergraduate Seminar, “U.S. Television History” Fall 2018 Graduate Seminar, “History of Electronic Media” Fall 2018
Department of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College Lecturer Undergraduate Seminar, “Women Above and Below the Line” Spring 2017 Undergraduate Seminar, “It’s Not TV, It’s HBO” Fall 2016 Undergraduate Seminar, “Media Criticism and Theory” 2015-2017 Undergraduate Seminar, “Media History II, 1965-Present” 2015-2017
Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles Visiting Lecturer Undergraduate Lecture Course, “Introduction to Visual Culture” Spring 2015 Graduate Seminar, “American Television History” Winter 2015 Undergraduate Seminar, “Media Industry Convergence” Spring 2013 Undergraduate Seminar, “Composition, Rhetoric, and Language” Winter 2009
Teaching Fellow Introduction to Television History Spring 2009 and 2012 The History of American Film Winter 2008 and 2012 Overview of Contemporary Hollywood (online) Summer 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 Introduction to European Film History Winter 2011
Teaching Assistant Coordinator Taught Graduate Seminar, “The Practice of Teaching Film and Television” 2011 - 2013 Advised instructors, created training programs, workshops, seminars, and other teaching-related projects for the department’s Teaching Fellows and Teaching Assistants.
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Department of Film and Electronic Arts, California State University, Long Beach Visiting Lecturer Undergraduate Lecture Course, “The History of Broadcasting” Fall 2014, Spring 2015 Upper Division Undergraduate Seminar, “Film and Culture” Spring 2015
Department of Film & Television, Santa Barbara City College Adjunct Instructor Undergraduate Lecture Course, “Introduction to Film” Fall 2014, Spring 2015 Undergraduate Lecture Course, “Gender and Sexuality in Film” Fall 2014
SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA ARTS
2019-2020 Search committee member for Documentary Cinematography hire
2018-2020 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Chair
Spring 2020 Chair of three Grade Appeals Committees
Fall 2018 Grade Appeal Committee Member
2018 Search committee member for Media Industries hire
2017-present Graduate Curriculum Committee
2017-2018 Tenure Track Committee
MA THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBER
2020-present Dalton Cooper ““King of the Merchandise: How Showa Era Paratexts Forever Changed the Godzilla Franchise”
2017-2019 Brecken Wellborn “Representation of Marginalized Groups Across the Subgenres of the 21st Century Hollywood Musical”
2017-2019 Jessica Hoover “Women in Comedy: The Carol Burnett Show”
2017-present William Meeker “New French Extremity”
MA EXAM COMMITTEE MEMBER
Spring 2021 Kate Newman, Buddy Love
SUPERVISED GRADUATE RESEARCH
Spring/Fall 2020 Dalton Cooper, M.A.
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Spring 2019 J.J. Perkins, M.A.
Fall 2018 Sarah Lara, M.A.
Spring 2018 Bokyung Choi, M.F.A.
Fall 2017 William Meeker, M.A.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH MENTOR
2018-2019 Tyler Dozier, BA. UNT Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
EXTRACURRICULAR UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2017-present Member UNT Women’s Faculty Network
2017-present Member UNT Postwar Faculty Studies
SERVICE TO THE FIELD
2018-present Member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Public Policy Committee
2014-present Editorial board member for [in]Transition: A Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies
2014-present Reviewer for Cinema Journal, [in]Transition, and Television & New Media
2007-2011 Co-Editor-in-Chief of Mediascape, UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
2007-2008 UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Representative
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2017-2018 Research Consultant for Vivian Micciche’s AP Capstone project at Byron Nelson High School, Trophy Club, TX.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2016 Participated in Emerson College’s PLANS for Information Literacy Program
2016 Participated in the Training Transformational Teachers Program at Emerson College
2012 Participant, UCLA’s Office of Instructional Development’s Collegium of University Teaching Fellows’ Central Seminar
2012 Attendee, The Wrap’s Media Leadership Conference, “The Grill 2012”
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2011 & 2012 Workshop Leader, UCLA’s Office of Instructional Development’s Teaching Assistant Conference
2011 Participant, UCLA’s Office of Instructional Development’s Teaching Assistant Consultant Central Seminar
PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
Assistant to Film and Music Video Director Spike Jonze and Producer Vincent Landay 2000 – 2001 Satellite Films, Hollywood, CA
Assistant to Film Producer Ted Hope 1998 - 2000 Good Machine, Inc., New York, NY
Executive Producer’s Assistant 1999 Beech Hill Films, New York, NY
Assistant Office Coordinator 1999 Striper Films Ltd., New York, NY
Assistant to Executive Producer, Bill Heubsch, for “Vatican II” Documentary 1996 RCL Enterprises, Dallas, TX
Set Production Assistant/Intern for Television Series Wishbone 1995 Lyrick Studios, Dallas, TX