School of Literature, Media, and Communication

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September, 2012

Jay P. Telotte

Professor

School of Literature, Media, and Communication

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph. D. 1976 University of Florida English

M. A. 1973 University of New Orleans English

B. S. 1971 Loyola University English/Education

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Professor LCC Georgia Tech 1991-Present

Associate Professor, English Georgia Tech 1984-91

Assistant Professor, English Georgia Tech 1979-84

Assistant Professor, English Berry College 1977-79

Instructor English Univ. of New Orleans 1976-77

CURRENT FIELDS OF INTEREST:

I. TEACHING

A. Courses Taught

Term Course Students Teaching Effectiveness

Fall 2005 3256 Major Filmmakers 18 5.0

Spring 2006 3352 Film and Technology 21 4.7

Fall 2006 3252 Film and Television 26 4.6

Spring 2007 Teaching Leave

Fall 2007 3352 Film and Technology 31 4.9

Spring 2008 3252 Film and Television 26 4.5

Summer 2008 3352 Film and Technology 2

Fall 2008 3853 Special Topics in Film: Animation 30 4.3

Spring 2009 3252 Film and Television: Science Fiction 30 4.8

Fall 2010 3352 Film and Technology 31 4.8

Fall 2011 3853 Special Topics in Film: Animation 31 4.77

Spring 2012 3252 Film and Television

B. Continuing Education

Not applicable

C. Curriculum Development

Designed Proposal for possible MS in Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies

(2010011)

Designed Proposal for possible MS in Communicating Science (2009)

Helped Design and Create Proposals for 3 New Courses: Global Cinema, Documentary Film, and Experimental Film and Video (2008-09)

Proposed Model (with Rebecca Burnett) for Technical Communication Minor (2008-09)

New Course: Special Studies in Film—Animation (2008)

Proposed new minor in Literary Studies (2007-08)

Created Proposal for a “Research and Communication” focus for GT undergraduate curriculum for Provost’s Initiative on Undergraduate Education (2007)

Contributed to design of STAC Research Track (2007)

Designed Minor in Film and Media Studies (2006)

Designed Proposal for Film and Media Studies degree (2005)

Helped design Biomedicine and Culture STAC option (2004-05).

Created Undergraduate Thesis Protocol (2004).

Helped design Gender Studies STAC option (2003-04).

Wrote (with Professor Carol Senf) Readmission Policy for STAC majors (2002).

Designed and oversaw development of 5-Year Degree Program (2001-02).

Designed and oversaw development of STAC Media Studies option (2000-01). Created LCC 4500 Seminar in Film (2000-01).

Helped design Performance Studies Minor (1999).

Planned and submitted Film Certificate proposal for semester conversion (1999). Designed and offered two film courses intended for STAC majors--Film and/as Technology and Film and the Machine Age.

Co-designer of Drama and Film Certificate program (1983).

Co-designed and developed Introduction to Drama and Film course (1983). Designed and developed Film History I and II (3133, 3134), Narrative Art of the Film (3131), Film Genres (3132), Studies in Film (4132).

Among specific courses created for and taught under such headings as 4132, 4832, and 4833 are the following: Disney and Technology, The Hollywood Studio System, German Expressionism, Science Fiction Film, American Film Noir, Film Fantasy, Genres of Space, Documentary Film, Theories of Film Authorship, Silent Comedy, The Comic in Drama and Film.

Created Handbook on Drama and Film for introductory students (1984).

Recommended and oversaw purchase of film and video holdings for LCC film archive (1982-present).

Obtained approximately 80 16mm film acquisitions from local collector for LCC film archive (1985).

D. Individual Student Guidance

M.S. thesis Committee (Nathaniel Olson, 2007)

Direction of undergraduate thesis (Whitney Hagan, spring 2005)

II. SCHOLARSHIP

A. Published Books and Parts of Books

Telotte, J. P., "Charles Peirce and Walker Percy: From Semiotic to Narrative," Walker Percy: Art and Ethics, pp. 65-79 (Jac Tharpe, Ed.) Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1980.

Telotte, J. P., "The Human Landscape of John Ford's South," The South and Film, pp. 117-33 (Warren French, Ed.) Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1981.

Telotte, J. P., "Faith and Idolatry in the Horror Film." Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film, pp. 21-37 (Barry K. Grant, Ed.) Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1984.

Telotte, J. P., "Roman Polanski," Encyclopedia of Film and Filmmakers, pp. 211-12, Chicago: St. James Press, 1984.

Telotte, J. P., Dreams of Darkness: Fantasy and the Films of Val Lewton, Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1985.

Telotte, J. P., "A Transforming Vision: Val Lewton and the Perspective of Fantasy," Forms of the Fantastic, pp. 165-74 (Hokenson and Pearce, Eds.) Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Telotte, J. P., "Children of Horror: The Films of Val Lewton," Aspects of Fantasy, pp. 95-106 (William Coyle, Ed.) Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Telotte, J. P., "Through the Eye of a Pumpkin: The Reflexive Vision of Horror," American Horrors, 114-28 Gregory Waller, Ed.) Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1987.

Telotte, J. P., Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir, Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1989. (Note: Now in its 5th printing)

Telotte, J. P., "John Ford," "Jean Renoir," "King Vidor," Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, pp. 956, 969-70, 976-77 (Wilson and Ferris, Eds.) Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Telotte, J. P., "The Doubles of Fantasy and the Space of Desire," Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction, pp. 152-59 (Annette Kuhn, Ed.) London: Verso, 1990.

Telotte, J. P., Ed., The Cult Film Experience: Beyond All Reason, Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1991.

Telotte, J. P., "Westworld, Futureworld, and the World's Obscenity," State of the Fantastic, pp. 179-88 (Nicholas Ruddick, Ed.) Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Telotte, J. P., "Film Noir at Columbia," Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio, pp. 106-17 (Bernard F. Dick, Ed.) Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1992.

Telotte, J. P., "The Disorder of Things in Twin Peaks," Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks, pp. 160-172 (David Lavery, Ed.) Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1995.

Telotte, J. P., Replications: A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film, Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1995.

Telotte, J. P., "The Woman in the Door: Framing Presence in Film Noir," In the Eye of the Beholder: Critical Perspectives in Popular Film and Television, pp. 137-48 (Gary R. Edgerton, Michael T. Marsden, and Jack Nachbar, Eds.) Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997.

Telotte, J. P., "Human Artifice and the Science Fiction Film," Film Quarterly: Forty Years, pp. 176-189 (Brian Henderson and Ann Martin, Eds.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. (reprint of earlier Film Quarterly article)

Telotte, J. P. A Distant Technology: Science Fiction Film and the Machine Age, Hanover: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1999.

Telotte, J. P., “A Parasitic Perspective: Romantic Participation and Polidori’s The Vampyre,” The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature, pp. 9-18 (Leonard G. Heldreth and Mary Pharr, Eds.) Bowling Green: Bowling Green State U Popular Press, 1999.

Telotte, J. P., “Noir Narration,” Post-War Cinema and Modernity, pp. 25-36 (John Orr and Olga Taxidou, Eds.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.

Telotte, J. P., “Rounding Up the Usual Suspects: The Comforts of Character and Neo-Noir,” Seeing Beyond: Movies, Visions, and Values, pp. 371-83 (Richard P. Sugg, Ed.) New York: Golden String Press, 2001.Noir.

Telotte, J. P. Science Fiction Film, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Telotte, J. P. El Cine de Ciencia Ficcion. Trans. Jose Miguel Parra Ortiz. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. (Spanish-language version of Science Fiction Film)

Telotte, J. P. “Jerry in the City: The Topology of The King of Comedy.” Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film. Ed. Murray Pomerance. New York: NYU Press, 2002. 167-80.

Telotte, J. P. “The New Hollywood Musical: From Saturday Night Fever to Footloose.” Genre and Contemporary Hollywood. Ed. Steve Neale. London: BFI Press, 2002. 48-61.

Telotte, J. P. “’A Little Bit Savage’: Stagecoach and Racial Representation.” John Ford’s Stagecoach. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 113-31.

Telotte, J. P. “What You Can’t See Can Hurt You: Of Invisible and Hollow Men.” Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror. Eds. Steven Jay Schneider and Daniel Shaw. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003. 105-19.

Telotte, J. P. “The Blair Witch Project Project: Film and the Internet.” Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies. Eds. Sarah L. Higley and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004. 37-52. (Also reprinted in Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture. Eds. Michael Petracca and Madeleine Sorapure. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004).

Telotte, J. P. Disney TV. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004. (Lead volume for new “TV Milestones” series)

Telotte, J. P. “Human Artifice and the Science Fiction Film.” Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader. Ed. Sean Redmond. London: Wallflower Press, 2004. 57-63. (Reprint of Film Quarterly article)

Telotte, J. P. “Voices from the Deep: Film Noir as Psychodrama.” Film Noir Reader 4. Eds. Alain Silver and James Ursini. New York: Limelight Editions, 2004. 145-60.

Telotte, J. P. “German Expressionism: A Cinematic/Cultural Problem.” Traditions in World Cinema. Eds. Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer, and Steven Jay Schneider. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 15-28.

Telotte, J. P. “Minor Hazards: Disney and the Color Adventure.” Color: The Film Reader. Eds. Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price. New York: Routledge, 2006. 30-39.

Telotte, J. P. “The Gravity of 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays. Ed. Robert Kolker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 43-54.

Telotte, J. P. “Interrogating the Real in Neil LaBute’s Films.” Neil LaBute: A Casebook. Ed. Gerald C. Wood. New York: Routledge, 2006. 125-39.

Telotte, J. P. “Heinlein, Verhoeven, and the Problem of the Real.” The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation. Eds. James M. Welsh and Peter Lev. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.187-200.

Telotte, J. P. “The Blair Witch Project Project: Film and the Internet.” The Cult Film Reader Eds. Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik. London: Open University Press, 2008. 263-73. (reprint of Film Quarterly article)

Telotte, J. P., ed. The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2008. (includes two chapters by the editor)

Telotte, J. P. The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2008.

Telotte, J. P. “Film, 1895-1950.” The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Eds. Mark Bould, Andrew Butler, Adam Roberts, and Sherryl Vint. London: Routledge, 2009. 42-51.

Telotte, J. P. “The Accident of Firefly.” The Essential Cult Television Reader. Ed. David Lavery. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2010. 111-19.

Telotte, J. P. “Theme Parks and Films—Play and Players.” Disneyland

and Its Global Impact. Eds. Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark West.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.

Telotte, J. P., and Gerald Duchovnay, eds. Science Fiction Film,

Television, and Adaptation: Across the Screens. London: Routledge, 2012.

Telotte, J. P. “A Fate Worse Than Death: Racism, Transgression, and

Westerns.” Westerns: The Essential ‘Journal of Popular Film and

Television’ Collection. Eds. Gary R. Edgerton and Michael T. Marsden.

New York: Routledge, 2012. 142-54. (reprint of Journal of Popular Film

and Television article)

Telotte, J. P. “Space Opera TV: Seeing the World of Tomorrow.” 1950s

Rocketman TV Series and Their Fans. Eds. Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 115-29.

Accepted for publication:

Telotte, J. P. “Farscape, Accidents, and Uncharted Territories.” Cult Television. Ed. Barbara Maio.

B. Edited Proceedings/Special Numbers

Special Horror Issue, Film Criticism vol. 7, no. 2, 1982.

Film and/as Technology, Post Script vol. 10, no. 1, 1990.

Film and Technology, Journal of Popular Film and Television vol. 28, no. 4, 2001.

C. Published Journal Papers (refereed)

Telotte, J. P., "Walker Percy's Language of Creation," The Southern Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 105-16, 1978.

Telotte, J. P., "8 1/2 and the Evolution of a Neorealist Narrative," Film Criticism, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 67-79, 1979.

Telotte, J. P., "Walker Percy: A 'Pragmatic' Approach," Southern Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 217-30, 1979.

Telotte, J. P., "The Organic Narrative: Word and Image in Barry Lyndon," Film Criticism, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 18-31, 1979.

Telotte, J. P., "Language and Perspective in James's The American," South Atlantic Bulletin, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 27-39, 1979.

Telotte, J. P., "Butting Heads with Faulkner's Soldier." Notes on Contemporary Literature, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 7-8, 1979.

Telotte, J. P., "Scorsese's The Last Waltz and the Concert Genre," Film Criticism, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 9-20, 1980.

Telotte, J. P., "Dancing the Depression: Narrative Strategy in the Astaire-Rogers Films," Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 15-24, 1980.

Telotte, J. P., "Charles Peirce and Walker Percy: From Semiotic to Narrative," The Southern Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 65-79, 1980.

Telotte, J. P., "A Symbolic Structure for Walker Percy's Fiction," Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 227-40, 1980.

Telotte, J. P., "A Sober Celebration: Song and Dance in the 'New' Musical," Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 2-14, 1980.

Telotte, J. P., "Faith and Idolatry in the Horror Film," Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 143-55, 1980.

Telotte, J. P., "The Movie Musical and What We 'Ain't Heard' Yet," Genre, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 505-20, 1981.

Telotte, J. P., "The Human Landscape of John Ford's South," The Southern Quarterly, vol. 19, nos. 3-4, pp. 117-33, 1981.

Telotte, J. P., "History, Imagination, and the Gadfly Artist," Illinois Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 14-27, 1981.

Telotte, J. P., "Formulas and Labyrinths: On Tracking The Leopard Man," New Orleans Review, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 265- 72, 1981.

Telotte, J. P., "A Gold Digger Aesthetic: The Depression Musical and Its Audience," Post Script, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 18-24, 1981.

Telotte, J. P., "Val Lewton's Children: Horror, Innocence, and Maturity," Post Script, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 46-61, 1982.

Telotte, J. P., "Through the Eye of a Pumpkin: The Reflexive Vision of Horror," Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 139-49, 1982.

Telotte, J. P., "The Horror Mythos and Val Lewton's Isle of the Dead," Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 119-29, 1982.

Telotte, J. P., "The Doubles of Fantasy and the Space of Desire," Film Criticism, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 56-68, 1982. Reprinted in 10th Anniversary Number of Film Criticism, vol. 11, nos. 1-2, pp. 43-55, 1987.

Telotte, J. P., "Self and Society: Vincente Minnelli and the Musical Formula," Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 181-93, 1982.

Telotte, J. P., "Narration and Incarnation: I Walked with a Zombie," Film Criticism, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 18-31, 1982.

Telotte, J. P., "Dark Patches: Structures of Absence in Lewton's Cat People," Post Script, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 40-59, 1982.

Telotte, J. P., "A Photogenic Horror: Lewton Does Robert Louis Stevenson," Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 25-37, 1982.

Telotte, J. P., "William Irwin Thompson and the Play of Knowledge," The Kentucky Review, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 83-93, 1983.

Telotte, J. P., "Visconti's Ossessione and the Open World of Neorealism," New Orleans Review, vol. 10, nos. 2-3, pp. 61-68, 1983.

Telotte, J. P., "Val Lewton's The Ghost Ship: Uncharted Waters," American Classic Screen, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 28-32, 1983.