Departments

• Film & Media Studies
• Women's and Gender Studies

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~film/fac-staff/
• Journal of e-Media Studies

Contact Information

Email: mark.j.williams@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3836
Office: 6194 Wilson Hall

Education

B.A. University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; A.M. University of Southern California; Ph.D. University of Southern California

Areas of Expertise

Film history and theory; Television history and theory; New Media history and theory; World Cinema; Film Noir; Romantic Comedy; The Western; U.S. television history; Electronic Journalism history; Media Crisis and Catastrophe; Inter-Media studies; Popular Culture and Gender; Visual Culture

Selected Works

• Journal of e-Media Studies, founding editor, (http://journals.dartmouth.edu/joems/).
• Interfaces:Studies in Visual Culture, series co-edited with A Randolph, (http://www.upne.com/series/IVSS.html).
• "Get/Away: Structure and Desire in Rancho Notorious," in Dietrich Icon, G Germunden and M Desjardins (eds), (2007) 259-283.
• "Real-time Fairy Tales: Cinema Pre-figuring Digital Anxiety" in New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality, A Everett and J T Caldwell (eds.), (2003).
• "History in a Flash: Notes on the Myth of TV 'Liveness'," in Collecting Visible Evidence, J Gaines and M Renov (eds.), Visible Evidence Series, 6 (1999).
• "Entertaining 'Difference':Strains of Orientalism in Early Los Angeles Television," in Living Color: Race, Feminism, and Television, S Torres (ed.), (1998) 12-34.

Current Projects

Remote Possibilities: A History of Early Television in Los Angeles, 1930-1952; "Passing for History: Humor and Early Television Historiography;" "Re-Wiring Media History: Inter-Medial Borders"