Charlie Michael: DIRECTORY
Dr. Charlie Michael
Assistant Professor of Film
Biography
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).
Education
- 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
Academic Interests
- Media industries
- Popular culture
- Film theory
- French and francophone cinema
- Youth cinema
- Action films
Publications
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).