Shane Denson
Professor of Art and Art History and, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Communication
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 three books: Post-Cinematic Bodies (2023), Discorrelated Images (2020) and Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface (2014). He is also co-editor of several collections: Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives (2013), Digital Seriality (special issue of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, 2014), and the open-access book Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (2016).
See also shanedenson.com for more info.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Art & Art History
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Professor (By courtesy), German Studies
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Professor (By courtesy), Communication
Administrative Appointments
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Director, Program in Modern Thought & Literature (2022 - 2025)
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Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art & Art History (2022 - 2024)
Program Affiliations
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American Studies
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Modern Thought and Literature
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Philosophy and Literature
2024-25 Courses
- Concepts of Modernity II: Media and the Environment
MTL 334B (Win) - Media and Mediums
FILMEDIA 306, FILMEDIA 6 (Aut) - Media and the Environment
FILMEDIA 216, FILMEDIA 416 (Win) - The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture
FILMEDIA 50Q (Aut) -
Independent Studies (16)
- Curricular Practical Training
ARTHIST 680 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
FILMEDIA 680 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Dissertation Proposal Preparation
ARTHIST 640 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Dissertation Research
ARTHIST 650 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Extended Seminar
ARTHIST 660E (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Extended Seminar
FILMEDIA 660E (Aut, Win, Spr) - Honors Thesis Writing
FILMEDIA 297 (Spr) - Independent Study
ARTHIST 660 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Study
FILMEDIA 660 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Study: Film and Media Studies
FILMEDIA 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Master's Thesis
MTL 334D (Aut, Win, Spr) - Qualifying Examination Preparation
ARTHIST 620 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Qualifying Examination Preparation
FILMEDIA 620 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Qualifying Paper
MTL 390 (Win, Spr) - Reading for Orals
MTL 399 (Aut, Sum) - Teaching Praxis
ARTHIST 610 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Aesthetics and Phenomenology
ARTHIST 253, ARTHIST 453, FILMEDIA 253, FILMEDIA 453 (Spr) - Concepts of Modernity II: Aesthetics and Phenomenology
MTL 334B (Spr) - Media and Mediums
FILMEDIA 306, FILMEDIA 6 (Aut) - The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture
FILMEDIA 50Q (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- Media and Mediums
FILMEDIA 306, FILMEDIA 6 (Aut) - Media and the Environment
FILMEDIA 216, FILMEDIA 416, SUSTAIN 156, SUSTAIN 356 (Spr) - The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture
FILMEDIA 50Q (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Aesthetics and Phenomenology
ARTHIST 253, ARTHIST 453, FILMEDIA 253, FILMEDIA 453 (Win) - German Media Theory
FILMEDIA 270, FILMEDIA 470, GERMAN 144, GERMAN 344 (Spr) - Introduction to Media
FILMEDIA 306, FILMEDIA 6 (Aut) - Movies and Methods: How to Watch TV
AMSTUD 290, FILMEDIA 290, FILMEDIA 490 (Spr) - The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture
FILMEDIA 50Q (Aut) - Theories of the Moving Image
FILMEDIA 102, FILMEDIA 302 (Win)
- Aesthetics and Phenomenology
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Danielle Adair, Paulina Choh, Amber Harper, Katja Schwaller, Misha Stekl, Lingjia Xu -
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Julia Irwin -
Orals Evaluator
Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Michelle Ha, Grace Han -
Doctoral Dissertation Reader (NonAC)
Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang -
Doctoral (Program)
Kola Heyward-Rotimi, Rebecca Turner
All Publications
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From sublime awe to abject cringe: on the embodied processing of AI art
JOURNAL OF VISUAL CULTURE
2023; 22 (2): 146-175
View details for DOI 10.1177/14704129231194136
View details for Web of Science ID 001159781600007
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Post-Cinematic Bodies
meson press. 2023
View details for DOI 10.14619/0436
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Historicizing and Theorizing Pre-Narrative Figures-Who is Uncle Sam?
NARRATIVE
2022; 30 (2): 152-168
View details for DOI 10.1353/nar.2022.0008
View details for Web of Science ID 000830388000003
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Historicizing and Theorizing Pre-Narrative Figures-Who is Uncle Sam?
NARRATIVE
2022; 30 (2): 152-163
View details for Web of Science ID 000832442900004
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Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art (Book Review)
CRITICAL INQUIRY
2021; 47 (4): 789-791
View details for DOI 10.1086/714539
View details for Web of Science ID 000657294600009
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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
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Discorrelated Images
DISCORRELATED IMAGES
2020: 1-308
View details for Web of Science ID 000879891500008
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Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface
POSTNATURALISM: FRANKENSTEIN, FILM, AND THE ANTHROPOTECHNICAL INTERFACE
2014
View details for DOI 10.14361/transcript.9783839428177
View details for Web of Science ID 000429198000010