Collins, Jim 1953- (James Michael Collins)

PERSONAL:

Born 1953. Education: University of Iowa, B.A., Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Film, Television, and Theater, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556. E-mail—james.m.collins.3@nd.edu.

CAREER:

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, associate professor of film, television, and popular culture.

WRITINGS:

Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism, Routledge (New York, NY), 1989.

(Editor, with Hilary Radner and Ava Preacher Collins) Film Theory Goes to the Movies, Routledge (New York, NY), 1993.

Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Information Age, Routledge (New York, NY), 1995.

(Editor) High-Pop: Making Culture into Popular Entertainment, Blackwell Publishers (Malden, MA), 2001.

Contributor to books, including The Film Cultures Reader, edited by Graeme Turner, Routledge (New York, NY), 2001.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice, September, 1993, D. Toth, review of Film Theory Goes to the Movies, p. 132; September, 2002, J.L. Culross, review of High-Pop: Making Culture into Popular Entertainment, p. 82.

Contemporary Literature, spring, 1993, John R. Leo, review of Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism, p. 123.

Current Sociology, January, 2004, Maria Gornostaeva, review of High-Pop, pp. 91-102.

Film Quarterly, spring, 1994, Wheeler Winston Dixon, review of Film Theory Goes to the Movies, p. 54.

JQ: Journalism Quarterly, autumn, 1991, review of Uncommon Cultures, p. 577.

Media, Culture, and Society, October, 1990, Mike Cormack, review of Uncommon Cultures, p. 547.

Quarterly Journal of Speech, May, 1997, Brian L. Ott, review of Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Information Age, pp. 259-260.

Times Literary Supplement, April 6, 1990, Brian Rotman, review of Uncommon Cultures, p. 379; April 22, 1994, Robert Potts, review of Film Theory Goes to the Movies, pp. 18-19; April 19, 2002, Sandy Starr, review of High-Pop, p. 30.