Steven James Wurtzler

Associate Professor of Cinema Studies

Department(s): American Studies

Contact

Office: Miller Library 239
Phone: 859-4585
Fax: 859-4705
Email: sjwurtzl@colby.edu

Semester Schedule

Mailing Address

4585 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8845

Education

Ph.D., University of Iowa
M.F.A., Columbia University
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Areas of Expertise

  • Sound media
  • Experimental cinema
  • US 1930s
  • Home movies
  • Radical media

Professional Information

Steve J. Wurtzler is the author of Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media (Columbia University Press).  His essays on sound media have appeared in several anthologies, including Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture, Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies, and Sound Theory/Sound Practice.  He is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Colby College where he chairs the Cinema Studies minor.

Courses Currently Teaching 2012-2013

Course Course Title
CI142 A Introduction to Cinema Studies
CI252 A History of International Cinema II
CI321 A Topics in Film Theory