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Cinema Studies Affiliated Faculty James Hay Titles Associate Professor of Communications Research Associate Professor of Cinema Studies Associate Professor of Criticism & Interpretive Theory Address 240 Lincoln Hall, MC-456 702 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illlinois 61801 phone: (217) 244-6011 fax: (217) 244-1598 email: j-hay@staff.uiuc.edu Major Research interests Studies of media, culture, and society with special attention to the cinematic, the televisual, and "new media" "Much of my current research considers the relation of media and culture to different spheres and environments (e.g., the home, "public/private" spheres, the city, national and international territories) and it engages recent convergences between media studies, cultural studies, social theory, and critical studies of environments (e.g., from architecture, urban studies, geography)." Selected publications The Audience and Its Landscape. (Editor and contributor) Westview, 1996. The Companion to Italian Cinema. (with Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Gianni Volpi) Cassell & BFI, 1996. Popular Film Culture in Fascist Italy: The Passing of the Rex. Indiana University Press, 1987. "Piecing Together What Remains of the Cinematic City," in The Cinematic City, Routledge, 1997. "Invisible Cities/Visible Geographies," in Television: The Critical View, 5th ed. Oxford, 1995. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Unit for Cinema Studies rleskosk@uiuc.edu 11.14.2007 rjl