Christie Milliken, Assistant Professor

Faculty of Social Sciences




Christie Milliken, Assistant Professor

Office: SBH 336
Extension: 4480; Email: cmillike@brocku.ca

Education:
Ph.D, Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California.
MA, Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California
BA (Honours), Film Studies, Queen's University
BA, English, McGill University

Research Interests:
Sex and gender in cinema
Sex education film and video
Documentary studies
Pedagogy and film

Teaching Areas:
Gender and film
American and international film history
Film theory
Melodrama studies
Introduction to cinema

Selected Publications:
"1969: Movies and the Counterculture," Screen Decades: American Cinema of the 1960s: Themes and Variations, edited by Barry Keith Grant, Rutgers University Press, 2007.

"Continence of the Continent: The Ideology of Disease and Hygiene in WWII Training Films," Cultural Sutures, edited by Lester B. Friedman, Duke University Press, 2004.

"The Pixel Visions of Sadie Benning," Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: An Anthology on Films About Teenage Girls and Young Women, edited by Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance, Wayne State University Press, 2002.

"Eroticizing Safe Sex: Pedagogy and Performance in Lesbian Video" Journal of Lesbian Studies (Volume 3, No. 3, Spring 1999) also reprinted in Lesbian Sex Scandals: Sexual Practices, Identities, and Politics, edited by Dawn Atkins, New York: Harrington Park Press, 1999.

"Unheimlich Maneuvers: The Genres and Genders of Transsexual Documentary" Velvet Light Trap (Volume #41, Spring 1998).