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Walter Metz

Walter Metz, Professor

Cinema

Walter Metz is a Full Professor in the School of Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He earned a Ph.D. in Radio/Television/Film at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996, and holds an S.B. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT (1989). He is the author of three books: Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema (2004), Bewitched (2007), and Gilligan’s Island (2012). He is also the author of sixty refereed journal articles and book chapters about the intertextual relationships between film, television, novels, and theatre. His work roves across disciplines, grappling with the importance of audio-visual productions for understanding such disparate subjects as gender, comedy, poetry, opera, the Cold War, the Holocaust, science, and animals.

Walter Metz

Phone: 618-453-2298
Office: COMM 1112
wmetz@siu.edu

Courses

Film Criticism
Photography Theory in Light of the Cinema
Theater and Mass Media
Non-Narrative Film and Television
Short Cinema Studies
The Television Sitcom

Education

Ph.D. at University of Texas, Austin, 1996

Interests

Contemporary film and television criticism and theory, literature and film, science and film, post-war American culture.

Recent Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Metz, Walter C. "From Books to Molecules: Adaptation Studies in the 21st Century." Literature/Film Quarterly 45, No. 2 (Spring 2017).

Metz, Walter C. "Perambulation, or the Real Miracle of Morgan's Creek." Mise-en-Scene: The Journal of Film and Visual Narration 1, No. 1 (Winter 2016).

Metz, Walter C. "There's Something Rotten in Film Criticism, and His Name is, Regrettably, Not Johnny." Film Criticism 40, No. 1 (Jan 2016): n.p..

Metz, Walter C. "A Dreary Life on a Barge: From L'Atalante to Young Adam." Weber: The Contemporary West 27, No. 2 (Spring 2011): 51-66.

Metz, Walter C. "Down Kerouac's Road to Pixar's Up." Film Criticism 35, No. 1 (Fall 2010): 60-81.