Dr. James Kendrick

Degrees

• Ph.D., Communication & Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington
• M.A., Journalism, Baylor University
• B.A., English, Baylor University

Research Interests

• Post-Classical Hollywood film history
• Films of Steven Spielberg
• Violence in the media
• Cult and horror films
• Media censorship and regulation
• Cinema and new technologies

Books (Authored and Edited)

•  Midnight Cowboy. BFI Film Classics, 2024.
• A Companion to the Action Film. Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.
• Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
• Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema. Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.
• Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre. Wallflower Press, 2009.

Additional Publications

• More than two dozen 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.
• Also the film and video critic for the web site QNetwork.com, where he has written more than 3,000 feature-length reviews.

Academic Related Professional Service & Membership

• Society for Cinema and Media Studies
• University Film and Video Association
• Popular Culture Association
• Online Film Critics Society

Year Started at Baylor

• 2005

Courses

• Film & Global Culture

• History of Motion Pictures

• History of Radio and Television

• Media & Society

• Film/Video Aesthetics: Theory and Criticism

• Violence and the American Screen 

• The Horror Film 

• Steven Spielberg and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

• Masters of International Cinema

• Contemporary Film Theory