Jason Mittell
Assoc. Professor of Film & Media Culture and Amer. Studies
Axinn Center at Starr Library 208
Phone: 802.443.3435
Fax: (802) 443-5123
Email: jmittell@middlebury.edu
Web Site
Topics he can discuss include: - Television history and criticism
- Media industries and society
- Race and gender in the media
- New media studies and integrated technology
VIDEO CLIPS:
National interview topics include:
Reality television, television narrative, the end of The Sopranos, and Wikipedia
Media Links:
American Idol, Interview on NPR's Morning Edition, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89652902
Television Spoilers, Interview on NPR's Morning Edition, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10931808
Profile in the Rutland Daily Herald
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080203/FEATURES02/984610301/1031/FEATURES02
Jason Mittell is an assistant professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College.
Mittell's expertise is popular culture and media in American history and contemporary society. His research interests include television history and criticism, media industries and society, animation and children's media, race and gender representation in the media, popular music and film criticism, and new media studies and integrated technology.
He is the author of "Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture" (Routledge, 2004). He has been interviewed on topics such as children and the media, the recent wave of quiz shows and reality television, "Dragnet," and the end of "Seinfeld."