Jesse Schlotterbeck received his Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Iowa in 2010 and began a tenure-track appointment with the Cinema Department in 2011. His research focuses on American film genres – in particular, the musical, the biopic, and film noir. The Fall 2022 semester he is teaching History of Cinema (CINE 225) and Documentary Film and Media (J 250).
The British Film Institute/Palgrave anthology Schlotterbeck contributed to (Howard Hawks: New Perspectives, edited by Ian Brookes) was short-listed for the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation’s Best Moving Image Book Award in 2017. Most recently, he co-edited a special issue of Film Criticism (October 2017) on the Romanian New Wave.
His publications in print include:
- “Adapting an ‘American’ Football Biopic: Knute Rockne: All American.” In Sport, Film, and National Culture, edited by Sean Crosson, 21-31. London: Routledge, 2020.
- “A Different Kind of Rock Doc: Performance, Persona, and Stardom in Anvil! The Story of Anvil and Last Days Here.” In Heavy Metal at the Movies, edited by Gerd Bayer, 37-50. London: Routledge, 2019.
- “The ‘House of Death’ in Print and On-Screen: Double Indemnity as Journalism, Fiction, and Film” in Film Noir Prototypes: Origins of the Movement, edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini, 320-335. Milwaukee, WI: Applause, 2018.
- “‘The Dynamism of Violent Death’: Low-Key Lighting, Censorship, and Violence in Film Noir.” In Film Noir: Light and Shadow, edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini, 308-315. Milwaukee, WI: Applause, 2017.
- “A Hard Day’s Night as a Post-Studio Era Musical Biopic.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 33, no. 6 (April 2016): 567-579.
- “Hawks’s ‘Unhawksian’ Biopic: Sergeant York.” In Howard Hawks: New Perspectives, edited by Ian Brookes, 67-81. London: BFI/Palgrave, 2016.
- “Masculinity, Race, and the Blues in the Bizpic Cadillac Records.” In Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age, edited by Tony Bushard and Stanley Pelkey, 188-204. London: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- “I’m Not There: Transcendent Thanatography.” In The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture, edited by Tom Brown and Belén Vidal, 227-242. London: Routledge, 2013.
- “Radio Noir in the USA.” In A Companion to Film Noir, edited by Helen Hanson and Andrew Spicer, 423-439. London: Blackwell, 2013.
- “The ‘Split’ Biography: Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story.” In Michael Jackson: Grasping the Spectacle, edited by Chris Smit, 67-80. Burlington, VT: Routledge/Ashgate, 2012.
- “Documenting Horror: The Use of Sound in Non-Fiction 9/11 Films.” Altre Modernità (September 2011) (online)
- “Killing Noir? – The Adaptation of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers to Radio.” Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 3, no. 1 (March 2010): 59-70.
- “Non-Urban Noirs: Rural Space in Moonrise, On Dangerous Ground, Thieves’ Highway, and They Live by Night.” M/C – A Journal of Media and Culture 11, no. 5 (October 2008) (online)
- “What Happens When Real People Start Getting Cinematic? Laguna Beach and Contemporary T.V. Aesthetics.” Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies, no. 12 (October 2008) (online)
- “Trying to Find a Heartbeat: Narrative Songs in the Pop Performer Biopic.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 36, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 82-90.
Additional essays appear in Film Noir: The Directors (Limelight, 2012), Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, and The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film.
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