Jane Feuer is Professor of film studies

Film studies

Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies...

 in the English and Communication Departments at the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...

. She is a film and television studies

Television studies

Television studies is an academic discipline that deals with critical approaches to television. Usually, it is distinguished from mass-communication research, which tends to approach the topic from an empirical perspective...

 scholar and one of the founders of Console-ing Passions, a biennial conference in feminism

Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

, television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

, video

Video

Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

 and new media

New media

New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...

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She is the author of The Hollywood Musical (London: BFI Publishing), Seeing Through the Eighties (Durham: Duke University Press

Duke University Press

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) and MTM: Quality Television (London: BFI Publishing).

She is currently a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the University of Tubingen, Germany

Germany

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 for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Selected Works

• The Hollywood Musical

• Seeing through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism