James Kendrick, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication Studies, Baylor University

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About

spacer James Kendrick is an associate professor in the Film and Digital Media Division of the Department of Communication Studies at Baylor University, where he teaches classes on film theory/aesthetics, the history of motion pictures, film genres, and media and society.

He earned a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University, Bloomington, and also holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Journalism, both from Baylor University. His primary research interests are post-Classical Hollywood film history, violence in the media, cult and horror films, media censorship and regulation, and cinema and new technologies.

spacer He is the author of two books on screen violence: Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009) and Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre (Wallflower Press, 2009). He is currently working on a book exploring the darker elements of the films of Steven Spielberg, which is contracted with Continuum. Kendrick has also published several book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles in Film Criticism, The Velvet Light Trap, The Journal of Film and Video, and The Journal of Popular Film and Television, as well as presented papers at numerous conferences. In addition to his academic work, he is also the film and video critic for the web site QNetwork.com (where he has written more than 2,100 feature-length reviews). He is a member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the University Film and Video Association, the Popular Culture Association, and the Online Film Critics Society.

He lives in Waco, TX, with his wife, Cassie, who is finishing her doctorate in Baylor’s Psy.D. program, and their two beautiful “children,” Ripley and Red.

Contact: James Kendrick, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, Department of Communication Studies, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97368, Waco, TX 76798-7368; (254) 710-6061; (254) 710-1563 (fax); james_kendrick@baylor.edu

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