Production/Research Areas: Film criticism and history, especially Japanese cinema and movie violence
Teaching Areas: film history and criticism
Courses: Introduction to Film, American Film Genres, Film History, Advanced Topics in Film
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Stephen Prince has taught film history, criticism, and theory at Virginia Tech for 19 years. His research and publications focus on violence in motion pictures, on Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and Japanese cinema, on the American film industry, on American film during the 1980s, and on political cinema.
The author of numerous essays and book chapters, his work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His audio commentaries have appeared on the DVDs of films by directors Akira Kurosawa and Sam Peckinpah. To date, Prince has published 15 books. His newest book, Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism, looks at portrayals on film and television of the 9/11 attacks and the events that followed, including the Iraq War. Click here for more information about Dr. Prince's work.
He currently is the Past President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the world’s largest organization of film scholars, academics, students, and professionals.