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| Education: | PhD, University of Texas-Austin MA, University of Arizona BA, Louisiana State University |
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Kristen Warner’s research interests lie both in television and film. As a critical race theorist, her work primarily focuses on race and representation within the Hollywood film and television industry. She also has a deep love for film theory and genres—specifically, the melodrama and its most famous product the soap opera.
Areas of Specialization
- Film and Television Style
- The Soap Opera
- Celebrity/Star Studies
- Critical Race Theory
- Screenwriting Theory
- Media Industries
Publications/Creative Work
Select Publications
- “You Can’t Have a Black Drama without White Leads: Effects of Casting in Post-Race Network Television,” in Selling on the Black Market: Reflections on Television Programming and Black Representations, ed. Beretta Smith-Shomade and Bambi Haggins. [Book proposal under review]
- “The $4 Billion Actor Everyone Forgot was Black: Will Smith’s Racial Transcendence through Science Fiction Films,” in Race in Recent Science Fiction Cinema and Television, ed. Eric Hung and Deborah Kitchen-Doderlein. [Book proposal under review]
Teaching
- TCF 100 Introduction to Telecommunication
Other Endeavors
- “I’m glad no one was hung up on the race thing”: Grey’s Anatomy and the Innovation of Blindcasting in a Post-Racial Era. Societ for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. 17-20 March 2010.
- “You Don’t Know Me Bitch!:” The Case of The Young and the Restless‘ Drucilla Winters and Strategically Essentialized Blackness.” Seventh Cultural Studies Association conference. Kansas City, Missouri. 16-19 April 2009.
- “The $4 Billion Actor Everyone Forgot was Black: Will Smith’s Racial Transcendence through Science Fiction Films.” Film and History Conference. Chicago, Illinois. 30 October-2 November 2008.
- “Gold Grills are the New Diamond Rings: Flavor of Love as the Anti- Bachelor, Anti-Network Show.” Console-ing Passions Conference. Santa Barbara, California. 24-26 April 2008.
- “’Of Course, I’m a Sellout. What Else Would I Be?’ Diahann Carroll, Richard Roundtree and the Assimilationist Processes of Containment within Grey’s Anatomy.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. 6-8 March 2008.
- “I am the Hellmouth Cu Cu Cachoo: Joss Whedon’s Branding as a Technique of the Self in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Console-ing Passions Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 25-27 May 2006.
- “How to Rob a Bank and not Become Morally Bankrupt: Ocean’s Twelve and the Construction of PG-13.” Third Cultural Studies Association Conference. Tucson, Arizona. 21-24 April 2005.
