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Ned Schantz

Ned Schantz
Contact Information
Email address: 
ned.schantz [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts 360
McCall MacBain Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Associate Professor
Stream: 
Cultural Studies
Specialization by geographical area: 
United States
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
21st-Century
Area(s): 
Creative Practice & Performance Studies
Fiction
Film & Television
History & Theory of the Novel
Identity & Representation
Theatre & Performance
Areas of interest: 

cultural studies; film; narrative theory; genre theory; feminism; media and technology; the theory of hospitality; Hitchcock; situation; immersive/interactive theatre; and alternate reality games.

Degree(s): 

M.A., Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
B.A. (Stanford)

Selected publications: 

Books

Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature (Oxford UP, 2008)

Book cover of "Gossip, Letters and Phones"

Book Chapters

Co-authored with Jay Shea: “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre µþ±ð²µ¾±²Ô²õ.†In American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper. Eds. Kris Woofter and Will Dodson. Austin: U of Texas P, 2021.

“The Hospitality of Scottie Ferguson in Vertigo.†In Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now. Eds. Sydney Gottlieb and Donal Martin. John Libbey Publishing, 2021.

Articles

Co-authored with Marcie Frank and Kevin Pask: “Situation: a Narrative Concept.†In Critical Inquiry 50:4 (Summer 2024), 659-676.

"Hospitality and the Scene of Contract in Dial M for Murder." In Hitchcock Annual 21 (2017): 40-70.

In The Cine-Files (December 2015): online.

In Senses of Cinema 76 (September 2015).

"Melodramatic Reenactment and the Ghosts of Grizzly Man." In Criticism Volume 55, Number 4 (Fall 2013).

"Hospitality and the Unsettled Viewer: Hitchcock's Shadow Scenes." ±õ²ÔÌýCamera Obscura 25 (1 73): 1-27 (2010).

"Telephonic Film." ±õ²ÔÌýFilm Quarterly (Summer 2003) 23-35.

"Jamesian Gossip and the Seductive Politics of Interest." ±õ²ÔÌýThe Henry James Review (Winter 2001) 10-23.

Taught previously at: 

University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)

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