Friedman, Seth A., Ph.D.
Contact
(765) 658-4513
sethfriedman@depauw.edu
Green Ctr for Performing Arts, Room 1312
Greencastle, IN
46135
Communication and Theatre
John D. Hughes Professor in Communication and Theatre
Seth Friedman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2009. He regularly teaches the following courses: Foundations of Communication; Media, Culture & Society; Film and Culture; Film History; Film Theory; Media Criticism; Global Media; Senior Seminar. He is the author of Are You Watching Closely?: Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film (State University of New York Press, 2017). He is also the co-editor (with Amanda Keeler) of Prestige Television: Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America (Rutgers University Press, 2022). His current book project, tentatively titled Robert Altman's Three Women's Films: Second Wave Feminism and Hollywood Renaissance Auteurism, is under advance contract with University Michigan Press and is slated to become part of its new "Out of the Archives" book series.
Publisher's link to Are You Watching Closely?: Cultural Paranioa, New Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film: https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6405-are-you-watching-closely.aspx
Publisher's link to Prestige Television: Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/prestige-television/9781978818262