Janet Staiger

Janet Staiger (/ˈstaɪɡər/) is the William P. Hobby Centennial Professor Emeritus of Communication in the Department of Radio-Television-Film and Professor Emeritus of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Education

She received her B.A. at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1968, her M.A. at Purdue University in 1969, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1981.

Career

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Bibliography

• Political Emotions co-ed. with Ann Cvetkovich and Ann Reynolds (Routledge, 2010)
• Convergence Media History co-ed. with Sabine Hake (Routledge, 2008)
• Media Reception Studies (New York University, 2005)
• Authorship and Film co-ed. with David Gerstner (Routledge, 2003)
• Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception (New York University Press, 2000)
• Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era (New York University Press, 2000)
• Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 1995)
• The Studio System (ed.) (Rutgers University Press, 1995)
• Interpreting Films: Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema (Princeton University Press, 1992)
• The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960, co-author with David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson (Routledge & Kegan Paul/Columbia University Press, 1985)

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