Dr. Shawn C. Shimpach

Cinema studies; television studies; media and cultural studies; cultural history of entertainment; significance of popular culture.

Education

Ph.D., New York University, 2004
M.A., New York University, 1996
B.A., Brandeis University, 1993

Background

Author of such journal articles as: "The Immortal Cosmopolitan: The International Co-production and Global Circulation of Highlander: The Series" and "Working Watching: The Creative and Cultural Labor of the Media Audience."

Current research focuses on social and institutional constructions of Hollywood's audience, and the textual and institutional negotiation of geopolitical economic transformations in popular culture.

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