Phone:
(205)
348-8659
Office:
Phifer
430C
Email:
jbutler [ a t ] ua.edu
Personal web page: www.tcf.ua.edu/jbutler
Research/Teaching/Creative Work:
The process of signification
in film and television, particularly the ways
that genres structure meaning and the function of star images within
film/TV texts. Also, the semiotics of visual style
in a variety of cinematic and televisual contexts.
Classes recently taught:
TCF 112 Motion Picture History & Criticism
TCF 311 Critical Studies in Television
TCF 340 International Cinema
TCF 389 New Media: Theory and
Practice
TCF 440/540 Seminar American Cinema
Select Publications and Creative
Work:
Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications.
Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. www.TVCrit.com
Butler, Jeremy G., ed. Star Texts: Image and Performance in
Film and Television. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
Butler, Jeremy G. "VR in the ER: ER's Use of E-Media."
Screen 42, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 313-331.
Butler, Jeremy G. "'I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV': Characters,
Actors and Acting in Television Soap Opera." Cinema Journal 30,
no. 4 (Summer 1991): 75-91. Reprinted in Robert C. Allen, ed. To
Be Continued . . . Soap Operas Around the World, 145-163. New York:
Routledge, 1995. View
with Adobe Acrobat.
