About the Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture

2008-2009

Rosane Beyer, Visiting Research Fellow, 2008-2009

Rosane Beyer, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of the Arts at Parana State University in Brazil where she teaches courses on film semiotics, drama and the analysis of narrative and character construction in melodrama. She is currently working on melodrama and American Western movies.

2008

Blake Edwards, Distinguished Fellow in Film Writing, Directing and Producing

View Blake Edwards’ profile at The Internet Movie Database (IMDB).

James G. Hirsch, EnterTech Fellow

Founding partner of International Studio Group, LLC (“ISG”) is one of Hollywood’s most inventive and successful writer-producers. He brings to ISG the perspective of an experienced producer as well as having built and successfully operated independent film/TV studios...more

2007-2008

Gregory Collins, Visiting Research Fellow, 2007-2008

Gregory Collins is currently a Research Fellow with the Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture at Arizona State University. Prior to this appointment, Collins was the director of development for Burnt Orange Productions...more

2005-2006

Richard Meyer, Visiting Research Fellow, 2005-2006

Richard J. Meyer teaches film at Seattle University. He was the Distinguished Fellow of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University in 2007 and the Distinguished Fulbright Professor at I’Universita’ del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro in Italy for the spring 2005 trimester. Dr Meyer is Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Professor of Telecommunications Emeritus at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and Visiting Professor at the Center for Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Hong Kong...more in Advisory Board profile