Charlie Michael: DIRECTORY

Dr. Charlie Michael has taught at GGC since 2020. His recent research focuses on media industries with particular emphasis on the representational politics of popular culture. His newest book – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Youth, Race, and the Hypertext – is forthcoming from Routledge in the summer of 2024, and he is also the author of French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2019) and the co-editor of the Directory of World Cinema: France (Intellect, 2013). His work has also appeared in journals such as SubStance, Transnational Screens and The Velvet Light Trap. He is also currently working on a co-edited volume called The Other French New Wave for Edinburgh UP (expected 2025).

• Doctorate – communication arts (film) – University of Wisconsin – Madison
• Master's – communication arts (film) – University of Wisconsin – Madison
• Master's – comparative literature – University of Iowa
• Bachelor's – English – Carleton College

• Media industries
• Popular culture
• Film theory
• French and francophone cinema
• Youth cinema
• Action films

Recent Publications

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Youth, Race, and the Hypertext (Routledge, 2024).
• "Whose Lost Bullet? Netflix, Cultural Politics and the Branding of Contemporary French Action CInema." Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France. M. Harrod and R. Moine, eds. (2024): 149-169.
• "Embodying the Tamil Diaspora: Audiard, Shobasakhti, and the Transnational Languages of Dheepan." (co-authored with S. Xavier) Transnational Screens 13.3 (2021): 23-40.
• French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2019).