Distinguished Fellows

: Blake Edwards, Distinguished Fellow in Film Writing, Directing and Producing (1922-2010)
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

Visiting Fellows

2011-2012

Jeremy Carr

Jeremy Carr, Visiting Research Fellow Jeremy Carr holds a bachelors degree in English and a masters of liberal studies degree with a concentration in film and media studies, both from Arizona State University. He will be an ASU adjunct faculty member in the spring of 2011, guest lecturing on American border representations in film, and assisting 2005-06 visiting research fellow, professor Richard Meyer, with a Global Cinema Classics course. Jeremy’s graduate work at ASU has included papers on such topics as “Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma as Pasolini’s Film on Film,” “Lang and the Abject: Tracing the Concept Through Three Fritz Lang Films,” “Fanny and Alexander as a Culmination of Ingmar Bergman’s Life in Film,” and “Jean-Luc Godard: Audience Detachment Through Narrative Delay.” An independent research study and thesis project, “Setting Significance in the Early Films of Michelangelo Antonioni” and “Kubrick and Control: Authority, Order and Organization in the War Films of Stanley Kubrick,” respectively, are being expanded and developed into book-length studies. Jeremy is News Services Editor for Independent Newspapers, Inc., in the Northwest Valley, and is a member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Zhaohui Liu, Visiting Research Fellow Zhaohui Liu, an assistant professor in the Foreign Languages College at North China Electric Power University in Beijing where she teaches intensive English reading, Chinese-English translation and English interpretation. She is now working on Chinese movies and their traditional Chinese aesthetics.

Spring 2011

Richard Meyer, Visiting Research Fellow, 2005-2006
Richard J. Meyer teaches film at Seattle University. He was the Distinguished visiting research Fellow in the Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture at Arizona State University in 2007 and taught a course in Film and Media Studies crosslisted with the School of International Language and Culture. He was also 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

2010-2011

: Gregory Gage, Visiting Research Fellow
Gregory Gage is currently a Research Fellow with the Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture at Arizona State University. Prior to this appointment, Gage has been working to develop Integrative Health Communities, a concept for future planned unit communities. In addition, Gage has been developing plans for a screenplay based on the works of Hermann Hesse, incorporating classical music and music that was released in 1947 considered to be the beginning of rock ‘n’ roll. A graduate of the University of Connecticut with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Gage studied International Real Estate at ASU in 1989, and has studied Social Work at ASU in the Graduate School of Social Work in the Integrative Health Modalities Certificate Program. In addition to working in the real estate development industry for 40 years, Gage also worked for the State of Arizona in Child Welfare.

: Jeremy Carr, Visiting Research Fellow Jeremy Carr holds a bachelors degree in English and a masters of liberal studies degree with a concentration in film and media studies, both from Arizona State University. He will be an ASU adjunct faculty member in the spring of 2011, guest lecturing on American border representations in film, and assisting 2005-06 visiting research fellow, professor Richard Meyer, with a Global Cinema Classics course. Jeremy’s graduate work at ASU has included papers on such topics as “Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma as Pasolini’s Film on Film,” “Lang and the Abject: Tracing the Concept Through Three Fritz Lang Films,” “Fanny and Alexander as a Culmination of Ingmar Bergman’s Life in Film,” and “Jean-Luc Godard: Audience Detachment Through Narrative Delay.” An independent research study and thesis project, “Setting Significance in the Early Films of Michelangelo Antonioni” and “Kubrick and Control: Authority, Order and Organization in the War Films of Stanley Kubrick,” respectively, are being expanded and developed into book-length studies. Jeremy is News Services Editor for Independent Newspapers, Inc., in the Northwest Valley, and is a member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

2008

: 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.

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 visiting research Fellow in the Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture at Arizona State University in 2007 and taught a course in Film and Media Studies crosslisted with the School of International Language and Culture. He was also 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