James Collins

Professor
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre

Degrees

B.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa

Research Profile

Collins teaches and studies popular narrative, film, cultural studies, and postmodernism. He is the author of Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Postmodernism and Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Age of Information. He has also co-edited Film Theory Goes to the Movies. His most recent book is High-Pop: Making Culture into Popular Entertainment.