Mimi White

Department of Radio/Television/Film

Mimi White's research involves cultural analysis of media, with particular emphasis on television and film. Most of her work focuses on contemporary or historical US media culture or broader theoretical questions. White is working on a project dealing with questions of narrative form and apparent transformations in the relationship between melodrama and realism in television fiction.

Education

PhD	Communication Studies, University of Iowa
MA	Communication Studies, University of Iowa
BA	History, Brown University

Recent Publications

White, Mimi and Schwoch, James, co-editors (2006). The Questions of Method in Cultural Studies. Blackwell.

"1970: Movies and the Movement." In American Cinema in the 1970s: Themes and Variations. Ed. Lester Friedman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

"Investigating Cheaters." The Communication Review, 9: 3 (2006), pp. 221-240.

White, Mimi (2004). "The Attractions of Television: Reconsidering Liveness: in Nick Couldry and Anna McCarthy, eds., Media/Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age. Routledge.

With Marsha Cassidy, "Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks: Ruth Lyons and Arlene Francis," Camera Obscura 51 (2002), pp. 30-69.

White, Mimi (2002). "Flows and Other Close Encounters with Telelvision." in Kumar, Shanti and Parks, Lisa, eds., Planet TV: A Global Television Studies Reader. New York University Press.

Courses

Reality Television
Film History
Television Theory
Feminist Theory and Popular Culture
Nostalgia and Popular Culture
Historical Narrative in Film and Television

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