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Cinema Studies Institute

Bart Testa

Associate Professor,Teaching Stream - Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Censorship and sexual issues in media
  • Chinese and Hong Kong and Taiwan films
  • Cinema
  • Film and television, issues touching on
  • Film-industry matters
  • Religious
  • Science fiction films

Office: 416-978-8574
Mobile: 416-537-0789
Website
Email: bart.testa@utoronto.ca

Charlie Keil

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Award cycle trends
  • Censorship and controversy
  • Classical Hollywood cinema and the star system
  • Contemporary Hollywood
  • Cultural trends
  • Directors and authorship
  • Documentary
  • Early cinema
  • Film and history

Office: 416-978-2510
Mobile: 647-236-0667
Website
Email: charlie.keil@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Lauren McLeod Cramer

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Black popular culture (tv, film, digital culture/trends, music video)

Office: N/A
Website
Email: lauren.cramer@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Nicholas Sammond

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • American studies
  • Animation
  • Children and movies
  • Early animation
  • Ethnicity and media
  • Gender and sexuality in vernacular media
  • Media and social/cultural practice
  • Media effects
  • Race

Office: 416-978-7271
Website
Email: nic.sammond@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online