This fall, Film & Media Studies has add two new instructional faculty to their ranks.
James Fleury, PhD, joins Film and Media Studies as a lecturer. Fleury’s research focuses on the increasing overlap between the American film and technology industries. He is working on a monograph about the history of Hollywood studios in the video game business, with an emphasis on Warner Bros. and its conglomerate owners. He is the co-editor of the anthology The Franchise Era: Managing Media in the Digital Economy (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and has served as a research fellow in UCLA's Digital Incubator and Think Tank. Earlier this year, Fleury earned his doctorate in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA.
Chang-Min Yu, PhD, joins Film and Media Studies as a lecturer. Yu earned his doctorate earlier this year from the film studies program at the University of Iowa. His dissertation, titled “Corporeal Modernism: Transnational Body Cinema since 1968,” considers the body as a medium—not as mere representation in cinema—to examine the relationship between the bodies on screen and before the screen. Other work has been published in such journals as Film Criticism and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His research interests lie in corporeal cinema, figural studies, sci-fi cinema, and contemporary Hollywood blockbusters.
