| Assoc Prof Adam Joel Knee
Head, Division of Broadcast & Cinema Studies
Head of Division
Division of Broadcast & Cinema Studies
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Email: ADAMKNEE@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6316-8909
Office: #02-40 |
| Education |
- PhD New York University 1997
- MA New York University 1985
- BA (Eng & Film & Video Studies) University of Michigan 1982
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| Biography |
| Adam Knee joined NTU in 2008 as a specialist in film and television studies. Prior to that, he taught film history and theory and coordinated the film studies MA program at Ohio University. He has also held teaching appointments in Australia, Taiwan, and Thailand, where he had a Fulbright Award to lecture at Chulalongkorn University. He has published widely in anthologies and journals on such topics as film genre; gender, race, and celebrity in American film; and new Thai cinema. He serves on the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society (Assumption University Press, Thailand) and on the outer editorial board of the forthcoming journal Celebrity Studies (Routledge). |
| Research Interests |
| Current research interests include new Southeast Asian cinemas (especially Thai cinema); film genre (especially horror and science fiction) and genre theory; race and gender in American film; film stardom; American television in the 1950s-60s. |
| Selected Publications |
- Knee, A. (2009). Thai Nationalism and Cinematic Superheroes in the Time of Thaksin.
- Knee, A. (2009). Film Festival Downsizing: A Tale of Two Southeast Asian Cities. Asian Cinema 20, .
- Knee, A., Choi, J., Mitsuyo, W. M. (2009). The Pan-Asian Outlook of The EyeHorror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema..
- Knee, A. (2008). Public lecture on film analysis. State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta, .
- Knee, A. (2008). Thai Horror Cinema?s Continuing Evolution. Seminar presentation, Graduate Colloquium Series, .
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