She/Her/Hers
Arts Division
Associate Professor
Faculty
Merrill College
Arts Division
Porter College
Kresge College Academic Building
1211
M,T,W,F 2:30-3:00
Film and Digital Media
Jennifer Horne's area of expertise is nontheatrical film and media, with an emphasis on the history of the factual, educational, film in governmental and institutional streams of activity. Her research interests span media citizenship, the history of institutional uses of film/video, media archaeologies, film exhibition histories, areas of film preservation and archiving that shape our understanding of film culture, and all aspects of these areas which touch gender and feminist history. Her publications include articles on nonfiction film and documentary film in The Moving Image and The Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, and essays about the circulation of nonfiction media in Useful Cinema (Duke University Press, 2011), and Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema (John Libbey, 2012) and The Documentary Film Reader (2015). Her expert commentary about early sponsored public health films was included in More Treasures from American Film Archives. Prof. Horne is on the editorial advisory board of Camera Obscura and represented the Society for Cinema and Media Studies on the National Film Preservation Board from 2005 to 2021.
American Film History
Women and Cinema
Film Exhibition
Film Theory
Film Historiography
Narrative Theory
