Chuck Kleinhans

Department of Radio/Television/Film

Chuck Kleinhans’ research interests include independent film and video, including radical, feminist, and black independent work; subculture reception of mass culture; US culture in the third world; sexual representation in experimental film and video, and in stigmatized sexual subcultures. He is the co-editor, founder and publisher of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media; 1974-present. Jump Cut content ranges from reportage and reviews to original research and analytical articles. Originally published annually, it circulated 4000+ copies per issue nationally and internationally in print. In 2001 it became a web-based publication at www.ejumpcut.org.

Personal web site

Education

PhD	Comparative Literature, Indiana University
MA	Comparative Literature, Indiana University
BA	Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin

Recent Publications

“1993: Movies and The New Economics Of Blockbusters and Indies,” American Cinema of The 1990s: Themes And Variations, Ed. Christine Holmlund, Forthcoming. A volume for the series, Screen Decades: American Culture/American cinema, ed. Lester D. Friedman and Murray Pomerance (Rutgers University Press)

“Barbara Hammer: Lyrics and History,” Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks, Robin Blaetz, ed. Durham, Duke University Press, forthcoming.

“Porn and Documentary: Narrating the Alibi,” Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the margins of taste, style, and financing, ed. Jeffrey Sconce, Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming.

“Serving the People: Dumplings,” Jump Cut no. 49 (April 2007).

Courses

RTVF 313-2	Contemporary Documentary
RTVF 232-1	Experimental Film
RTVF 420-1	Film Theory

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]