James Collins
- Office
- 306 Riley Hall of Art
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- 574-631-7452
- collins@nd.edu
Professor, Film, Television, and Theatre
Professor, Film Studies
Department Chair
Area: Art History, Area: Design, Area: Studio Art
Research Interests
Film and Television Theory, Postmodern Studies, and Digital Culture
Biography
Jim Collins is a Professor of Film and Television at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches courses on media theory and digital culture. His most recent book is Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2011). He is also the author of Architecture of Excess: Cultural Life in the Information Age (Routledge, 1995) and Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Postmodernism (Routledge, 1989), editor of High-Pop: Making Culture into Popular Entertainment (Blackwell, 2002), and co-editor of Film Theory Goes to the Movies (Routledge, 1993). His current book project is entitled Playlist Culture. In 2010, he was awarded the Charles Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching.