Christopher Weedman

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About Christopher Weedman

Dr. Christopher Weedman is an Associate Professor of English (Film Studies) at Middle Tennessee State University, where he serves as both director of the General Education English program and faculty advisor of the interdisciplinary Film Studies minor. He holds affiliate faculty status in both the University Honors College and the Women's and Gender Studies program.His area of specialization is post-1945 British, American, and European film history with an emphasis on film censorship, film genres, and film representations of class, gender, and sexual identity. He is co-editor of the scholarly collections ADULT THEMES: BRITISH CINEMA AND THE X CERTIFICATE IN THE LONG 1960s (Bloomsbury, 2023, co-edited with Anne Etienne and Benjamin Halligan) and LIMINAL NOIR IN CLASSICAL WORLD CINEMA (Edinburgh University Press, 2023, co-edited with Elyce Rae Helford). His scholarship has also appeared in such journals as FILM INTERNATIONAL, JEWISH FILM & NEW MEDIA, JOURNAL OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES, QUARTERLY REVIEW OF FILM & VIDEO, and SENSES OF CINEMA, as well as multiple edited collections.Dr. Weedman is currently writing the monograph ANNE HEYWOOD: BEAUTY, SEX, AND THE CONTROVERSIAL FILM (under advance contract to University Press of Mississippi), a critical biography of the groundbreaking British actress of the films THE FOX (1967) and I WANT WHAT I WANT (1972). Excerpts from his personal interviews with the late Heywood appeared in the film magazine CINEMA RETRO in January 2017.He is also co-editing the scholarly collection ReFOCUS: THE FILMS OF MICHAEL CIMINO with Benjamin Halligan and Karla Oeler (under advance contract to Edinburgh University Press as part of its "ReFocus: The American Directors" series). This collection will represent the first, full critical engagement with the work of the Oscar-winning director behind THE DEER HUNTER (1978) and HEAVEN'S GATE (1980).