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Michael Green

Curriculum Vitae

Michael Bodhi Green

PrincipalLecturer

Director of Online Programs, English Department

Barrett Honors Faculty

Film and Media Studies Program / English Department

Arizona State University

480.510.9785 /

EDUCATION

  • M.F.A. Creative Writing, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Jan. 2008
  • Thesis: The Sepulchral City: A Novel (Chair, Jay Boyer)
  • M.A. Film Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Aug. 2006
  • Thesis: A Difficult Choice: African American Cinema in the 1990s(Chair, Daniel Bernardi)
  • B.A. Humanities, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, May 2003, Summa Cum Laude

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

  • Principal Lecturer, Film and Media Studies Program, English Department, Arizona State University. Fall 2017 – Present
  • Senior Lecturer, Film and Media Studies Program, English Department, Arizona State University. Fall 2013 – Fall 2017
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Cinema Department, San Francisco State University. Fall 2011 – Present
  • Lecturer, Film and Media Studies Program, English Department, Arizona State University. Fall 2008 – Spring, 2013
  • Adjunct instructor, English Department, Mesa Community College. Spring 2007 – Spring 2008

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

  • Bernardi, Daniel and Michael Green.Racial Representation in American Cinema: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation, 3 Volumes. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2017.

Academic and Refereed Articles:

  • “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”TV Memories: Love Letters to Our Television Past. Ed. Bambi Haggins. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018 (forthcoming.)
  • “Los Angeles Cinema and the Utopia of La La Land.” Bright Lights Film Journal. Ed. Gary Morris. (May 4 2017).
  • “Cinema, Race and the Zeitgeist: On Pulp Fiction Twenty Years Later.” Senses of Cinema. Ed. Roland Caputo. Issue 72. (October ‘14).
  • “Whiteness Annotated Bibliography” (co-authored).” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford University Press. Article launched 10/30/2014.
  • “Screenwriting Representation: Teaching Approaches to Writing Queer Characters.” Journal of Film and Video. Ed. Emily Edwards. Volume 64, Nos. 1-2, (spring/summer 2013).
  • “Securing the Frontier for Whiteness in Tron” in Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, and Disability. Johnson Cheu editor. North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2013.
  • “Glasnost in Space Revisited: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.” Bright Lights Film Journal. Ed. Gary Morris. 76 (May ‘12)
  • “Star Trek Annotated Bibliography” (co-authored). In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Grabbard. New York: Oxford University Press. Article launched 10/28/2011.

Non-refereed publications

  • "Serial Killer Drama 'Rillington Place' Condemns Midcentury English Patriarchy," Pop Matters. February 14, 2018.
  • "Is Clint Eastwood's 'The 15.17 to Paris' a Rare Experimental Hollywood Film?" Pop Matters. February 12, 2018.
  • “The Devolution of Taylor Swift,” Pop Matters. June 8, 2015
  • “Oscars 2015: Expert Reaction,” The Conversation. Feb. 23, 2015.
  • “American Sniper Perpetuates Hollywood’s Typical ArabStereotypes,” The Conversation. Feb. 4, 2015.
  • “Walking My Way Out of Divorce,” Salon Magazine. August 7, 2013.
  • “Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films,” byIra Jaffe, forJournal of Film and Video, 62.4 (Winter 2010): 58-59
  • “Awake and Alive: On Twenty Years of Peter Gabriel’s In Your Eyes,” Chautauqua Literary Review, 4 (June 2007) pp 38-45.

AWARDS, NOMINATIONS AND GRANTS

  • 2015 – Nominated for ASASU Centennial Professor Award
  • 2013 – Nominated for ASASU Centennial Professor Award
  • 2013 – Nominated for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award: Lecturer of the Year
  • Sun Devil Award for Service (5 years), 2013
  • 2012 – Nominated for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award: Lecturer of the Year
  • 2011 – Nominated for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award: Lecturer of the Year
  • Awarded ASU Institute for Humanities Research grant as a member of the “Friending Facebook”

Social Media research cluster (2010 – 2011)

CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS

  • Presentation/Workshop of screenplay, “The Correspondents” (Act II), at University Film & Video Association national conference Orange, CA,August 8-10, 2013. Accepted into juried conference and peer reviewed by professional screenwriters.
  • Presentation/Workshop of screenplay, “The Correspondents” (Act I), at University Film & Video Association national conference Chicago, IL,August 8-10, 2012. Accepted into juried conference and peer reviewed by professional screenwriters.
  • Paper, “The Indie Infused Blockbuster: Contemporary Hollywood’s Appropriation of the 1990s Independent Cinema Aesthetic,” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies national conference, Boston, March 21-25, 2012.
  • Presentation/Workshop of Screenplay Treatment, “The Sepulchral City,” at University Film & Video Association national conference Boston, MA,August 3-6, 2011. Accepted into juried conference and peer reviewed by professional screenwriters.
  • Paper, “Citizen Davis: Body and Soul as a Jewish/Leftist Response to Citizen Kane,” at University Film & Video Association national conference (Champlain), August 2010.
  • Panel Moderator, “Working for the Man: How Prime Time Reifies White Cultural Supremacy” at University Film &Video Association national conference (New Orleans), August 2009.
  • Paper, “Once More unto the Racial Breach: Shakespeare and Race in Star Trek,” at University Film & Video Association national conference (New Orleans), August 2009.
  • Paper, “Screenwriting Sexual Difference,” at University Film & Video Association national conference (Colorado Springs), August 2008.

INVITED TALKS

  • Co-moderator, screening portion of “The Place of the Dream: US Television 20 Years After Color Adjustment” Screening and Symposium, Arizona State University, February 2011.
  • Member, Panel Discussion: “Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy,” Arizona State University, March 2010.
  • Presentation and discussion of The Proposition, for the “Westerns with a Difference” film series at the Phoenix Art Museum, October 2009 (in conjunction with Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture, ASU).
  • Presentation and discussion of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for the “Masterpiece Replayed” film series at the Phoenix Art Museum, Feb 2008

COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT

San Francisco State University: Cinema Department

  • CINE 556: Feature Screenwriting II
  • CINE 456: Feature Screenwriting I
  • CINE 200: Introduction to Cinema

Arizona State University: Film and Media Studies Program

  • FMS 494: Science Fiction Cinema and Cultural Theory
  • FMS 494: Screenwriting Adaptation Studies
  • FMS 440/522: Los Angeles: Movies and Culture
  • FMS 300: Media and Cultural Studies
  • FMS 270/508: Race and Gender in American Film
  • FMS 209/522: Screenwriting Fundamentals
  • FMS 110: Introduction to New Media
  • FMS 100: Introduction to Film

SERVICE

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Routledge Publishing, proposal for The American History of Black and White Relations in Film, Kimberly Guinta, editor, Nov 2014.
  • Reviewer, Bloomsbury Publishing, From Scene Writing to Screenwriting, Sep. 2014.
  • Peer reviewer, Communication & Society, “The Adventure Screenplay in William Goldman,” by Eva Alfonso. Vol. 27.4 (2014)Carlos Barrera editor.2014.
  • Judge, University Film and Video Conference, Screenwriting Competition,Los Angeles, CA,July 30 – August 3, 2013.
  • Respondent, Screenplay “Underground,” at University Film and Video Conference, Script Workshop,Orange, CAAugust 2, 2013.
  • Reviewer, W. W. Norton and Company, Looking at Movies, Oct. 2012.
  • Judge, University Film and Video Conference, Screenwriting Competition,Chicago, IL,August 6-11, 2012.
  • Reviewer, Continuum Publishing, Hollywoodland: Cinematic California in Film, History and Culture, 2012.
  • Judge, University Film and Video Conference, Screenwriting Competition,Boston, MA,August 3-6, 2011.
  • First Respondent, Screenplay “The Right House,” at University Film and Video Conference, Script Workshop,Boston, MA,August 6, 2011.
  • Reviewer, McGraw-Hill Higher Education Introduction to Film Textbook, 2009 - 2010

Arizona State University

  • Member, Non-Tenure Track Committee, January 2015 - Present
  • FMS Curriculum Committee, 2015 – Present
  • Faculty Advisor and Professor for FMS Study Abroad program: “New Zealand: Film, Culture and Lord of the Rings,” (Summer 2015.)
  • FMS Online Curriculum Coordinator, January 2013 – Present
  • Chair, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Affairs and Grievance Committee, Sum. 2013
  • Faculty advisor, FMS student trip to Sundance Film Festival, January 2013
  • Faculty advisor, FMS student trip to Sundance Film Festival, January 2012
  • Obama Scholar Mentor, 2010 – 12
  • Member, Course Evaluation Form Ad-hoc Committee, 2011-2012
  • Organizer/administrator of Film and Media Studies TA Training, August 2011
  • Member, FMS Critical Writing and Pedagogy Ad-hoc Committee, 2010
  • Member, FMS Curriculum Committee, 2009 – 2011
  • Faculty Advisor and Professor for FMS Study Abroad program at American University in Rome, (taught FMS 340 Contemporary American Film and Popular Culture), summer, 2009.
  • Member, FMS Freshman Retention Committee, 2008 – 2009
  • Member, Media Industries Professor Search Committee, Spring 2008 (the search yielded two current FMS tenured professors)

REFERENCES

Dr. Kevin Sandler, Associate Professor and Director of Internships, Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ | 480.727.3920|

Dr. Aaron Baker, Director and Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ | 480.727.0804 |

Dr. Bambi Haggins, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ | 480.727.0804 |