Andy Smith
Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of New Mexico
FAMS courses:
FAMS 101: Introduction to Film and Media Studies
FAMS 120: Filmmakers–Martin Scorsese
FAMS 120: Filmmakers–Alfred Hitchcock
FAMS 201: Making Media 1 – (now) FAMS 202: Integrated Practice II
FAMS 220: Poetics and Politics of Film
FAMS 260: Film Genres
FAMS 301: Making Media 3: Short Narrative Film
FAMS 302: Integrated Practice III—Short Fiction
FAMS 350: Seminar–Death on Screen
FAMS 362: American Cinema of the 1970s
FAMS 363/EVST 363: Green Screen – Film and Environment
FAMS 420: Capstone in Film and Media Studies
FAMS 421: Capstone Practicum
DOC 150: Introduction to Documentary Storymaking
DOC 370: Capstone in Documentary Storymaking
Teaching interests: American cinema; Documentary filmmaking; international cinemas: the history of photography; environmental studies
Research interests: American cinema and media; Documentary filmmaking; international cinemas: the history of photography; environmental studies
Selected publications:
Published works include essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne early photography, John Steinbeck and chaos theory, and Native American fiction and survivance. Documentary work include films on graphic artist Art Spiegelman and 9/11, food production, dance, and immigration. Films in progress on diabetes and the loss of the senses, and a sensational 1930s murder trial and current-day gendered burial practices.