
Shane Denson
Associate Professor of Art and Art History and, by courtesy, of German Studies
Art & Art History
Bio
Shane Denson is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. His research and teaching interests span a variety of media and historical periods, including phenomenological and media-philosophical approaches to film, digital media, comics, games, and serialized popular forms. He is the author of Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface (Transcript-Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2014) and co-editor of several collections: Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2013), Digital Seriality (special issue of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, 2014), and the open-access book Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (REFRAME Books, 2016). His next book, Discorrelated Images, is forthcoming with Duke University Press.
See also shanedenson.com for more info.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Art & Art History
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Associate Professor (By courtesy), German Studies
Program Affiliations
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Modern Thought and Literature
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Philosophy and Literature
2020-21 Courses
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Independent Studies (11)
- Area Core Examination Preparation
FILMSTUD 620 (Win) - Dissertation Proposal Preparation
ARTHIST 640 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Dissertation Research
ARTHIST 650 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Extended Seminar
ARTHIST 660E (Aut, Win, Spr) - Extended Seminar
FILMSTUD 660E (Aut, Win, Spr) - Honors Thesis Writing
FILMSTUD 297 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Study
ARTHIST 660 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Study
FILMSTUD 660 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Study: Film and Media Studies
FILMSTUD 299 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Qualifying Examination Preparation
ARTHIST 620 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Teaching Praxis
ARTHIST 610 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Area Core Examination Preparation
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Prior Year Courses
2019-20 Courses
- Digital and Interactive Media
FILMSTUD 173 (Win) - How to Watch TV
FILMSTUD 223 (Win) - Introduction to Media
FILMSTUD 306, FILMSTUD 6 (Aut) - Media Technology Theory
ARTHIST 465, COMM 384, FILMSTUD 465A (Spr) - The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Film and Media
FILMSTUD 50Q (Aut)
2018-19 Courses
- Aesthetics and Phenomenology
FILMSTUD 253, FILMSTUD 453 (Win) - Game Studies
FILMSTUD 259, FILMSTUD 459 (Aut) - Introduction to Media
FILMSTUD 6 (Aut) - Post-Cinema
FILMSTUD 215, FILMSTUD 415 (Win)
2017-18 Courses
- Currents in Media Theory
FILMSTUD 452 (Spr) - Game Studies
FILMSTUD 259, FILMSTUD 459 (Win) - Introduction to Media
FILMSTUD 6 (Aut) - Let's Make a Monster: Critical Making
ARTSTUDI 233, FILMSTUD 233, FILMSTUD 433 (Spr) - The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Film and Media
FILMSTUD 50Q (Aut)
- Digital and Interactive Media
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Andrea Capra, Frank Mondelli, Jeff Nagy -
Orals Chair
Juan Melo -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Hank Gerba
All Publications
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The Horror of Discorrelation: Mediating Unease in Post-Cinematic Screens and Networks
JCMS-JOURNAL OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
2020; 60 (1): 26–48
View details for DOI 10.1353/cj.2020.0061
View details for Web of Science ID 000586252600003