peter alilunas - School of Journalism and Communication

PETER ALILUNAS School of Journalism and Communication • University of Oregon 236 Allen Hall, 1275 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97403 (541) 914-‐5820 • pka@uoregon.edu E D U C A T I O N PhD 2013 Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan Dissertation: “Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video, 1976-‐1986.” MA BA 2008 Radio-‐Television-‐Film, University of Texas at Austin 2006 English, Film Studies Certificate, University of Oregon Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa A C A D E M I C A P P O I N T M E N T S 2014 – Assistant Professor of Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, Program Faculty, Cinema Studies, University of Oregon 2013 – 2014 Lecturer, Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan 2008 – 2013 Graduate Student Instructor, Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan 2007 – 2008 Teaching Assistant, Radio–Television–Film, University of Texas at Austin P U B L I C A T I O N S Books Forthcoming: Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video, 1976-‐1986. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Journal Articles (Refereed) “Regulating the Desire Machine: Custer’s Revenge and 8-‐Bit Atari Porn Video Games,” co-‐authored with Matthew Thomas Payne (University of Alabama), Television & New Media, 2015. DOI: 10.1177/1527476415601212. “Ephemerata: Ginger’s Private Party Flyer (circa 1985),” Film History 26.3, 2014: 144-‐155. “They Can’t Do This to Us!: Alan Alda as (Anti)Feminist Signifier,” Camera Obscura 78 (26.3), 2011: 35-‐61. 1 “The (In)Visible People in the Room: Men in Women’s Studies.” Men and Masculinities 14.2 (June 2011): 210-‐229. “The Death and Life of the Back Room.” Media Fields 1.1 (December 2010). “The Past is All Used Up: Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, and Erasure.” Screening the Past 27 (May 2010). “Male Masculinity as the Celebration of Failure: The Frat Pack, Women, and the Trauma of Victimization in the ‘Dude Flick.’" Mediascape, UCLA (Spring 2008). Journal Articles (Non-‐Refereed) Forthcoming: “On the Prowl and the Origins of Gonzo,” Porn Studies, 2016. “The Necessary Future of Adult Industry Studies,” Creative Industries Journal 7.1 (2014), 62-‐66. “The Decline of Western Civilization, Part II: The Metal Years.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27.5 (December 2010), 436-‐438. "I Wanna Kill Sam: Ice Cube as Persona and Patriot." Nomad: Journal of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, Volume 5 (Spring 2006), 89-‐99. Edited Book Chapters Forthcoming: “Mediating the Back Room: Adult Video News and the Creation of Adult Video,” in From Porno Chic to the Sex Wars: The Destabilization of American Culture and Politics in the 1970s. Whitney Strub and Carolyn Bronstein, eds. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. “Afterword: Pink Film and Porn Studies,” in The Pink Book: Japanese Eroduction and its Contexts. Markus Nornes, ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Kinema Club, 2014: 393-‐403. Other Publications “Screen Arts & Cultures: A Department History,” commissioned and held by the Bentley Library as part of its Bicentennial Project, University of Michigan, 2013. “Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds.” In Media Res (March 1, 2010). “The Prospector (1912).” National Film Preservation Foundation (Fall 2009). I N V I T E D T A L K S A N D L E C T U R E S 2014 2 “Adult Film History: 1960–1980.” Exploitation Cinemas course. Mark Kligerman, Instructor. University of Michigan. March 10. 2012 “Adult Film History: 1960–1980.” Film History course. Dan Herbert, Instructor. University of Michigan. October 10. “Adult Film History: 1960–1980.” Exploitation Cinemas course. Mark Kligerman, Instructor. University of Michigan. June 10. “Why Pornography Matters.” University of Michigan. Sexpertise Sexual Health Conference 2012. January 25. 2011 “Pornography, Technology, and the Future.” University of Michigan. Residential College Sexual Health Forum. November 10. “Pornography: Past, Present, and (Possible) Futures.” University of Michigan. Sexpertise Sexual Health Conference 2011. January 19. 2010 “Why Adult Film History Matters.” University of Michigan. Residential College Sexual Health Forum. October 27. 2009 “Whiteness and Judd Apatow: Racial Masculinities in Contemporary Comedy.” Race and Media course. Kevin Sanson, Instructor. University of Texas at Austin. July 3. C O N F E R E N C E P R E S E N T A T I O N S A N D W O R K S H O P S 2016 Under review: “Regulation, Authenticity, and Pornography: The Legacy of Freeman v. California.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. SCMS. Atlanta, Georgia. March 30-‐April 3. “On the Prowl and the Origins of Gonzo Pornography.” Film & History Conference. Madison, Wisconsin. November 5-‐8. 2015 “Doing It: The Practice of Adult Film History.” Workshop panel member. Chair: Eric Schaefer. Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. Montreal, Canada. March 25-‐29. 3 2014 “Conspiracy or Regulation? Floyd Bloss and the Complexities of Adult Film Historiography.” Co-‐
Chair of “Historiography Blues: Challenges in Writing Histories of Adult Film and Video” panel with Eric Schaefer, Emerson College. Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. Seattle, Washington. March 19–23. “Obscenity and Indecency.” Panel member, Dirty, Sexy Policy Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara. February 20-‐21. “Deep Throat, Censorship, and the University of Michigan, Forty Years Later.” Sex, Media, Reception: New Approaches Conference. University of Michigan. February 14-‐15. Conference co-‐organizer, with Damon Young. 2013 “Home Video Studies.” Workshop panel member. Chair: Dan Herbert. Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. Chicago, Illinois. March 6–10. “Pizza, Motels, and Porn: The Pre–History of Home Video, 1970-‐1976.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. Chicago, Illinois. March 6–10. Respondent: Eric Schaefer, Emerson College. 2012 “Transgressive Exuberance: Ginger Lynn, Vivid Video, and Gendered Sexuality.” Film Studies Association of Canada Conference. Waterloo, ON, CA. May 30–June 1. “Going All The Way: Vivid Video and the Economics of ‘Quality’ Adult Films.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. Boston, Massachusetts. March 21–25. 2011 “Porn Production Studies: Examining the (Other) Hollywood Industry.” Cultural Studies Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois. March 25. “Selling X without the Sex: AVN Confidential and ‘Quality’ Adult Video.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. March 11. Respondent: Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley. 2010 “Convergence Crisis: Adult Entertainment in the Age of New Media.” Roundtable member: Managing Media Production in the Age of Convergence. Flow Conference 2010. University of Texas at Austin. September 30–October 2. “Playing Defense: Protecting Masculinity with Humor in the ‘Dude Flick.’” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. Los Angeles, California. March 17–21. 4 2009 "Mediating the ‘Back Room’: Adult Video News and Early Home Video Stores." What is Film? Change and Continuity in the 21st Century Conference. University of Oregon/Turnbull Center, Portland, Oregon. November 6–7. “‘They Can’t Do This To Us!’: Alan Alda’s Feminist Stardom.” PCA/ACA 2009 National Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 8–11. 2008 “When Yellow Becomes White: Race, Nation, and Science in ‘The 100 Days of the Dragon.’” Film & History 2008. Chicago, Illinois. October 30–November 2. “Televised Sports and its Contexts.” Roundtable member, Flow Conference 2008. University of Texas at Austin. October 9–11. “The Phallus and the Female Perspective: Masculinity in the Films of Candida Royalle.” PCA/ACA 2008 National Conference. San Francisco, California. March 19–22. “‘Nothing I Do is Ever Good Enough’: Troubled Masculinity in the Films of Vince Vaughn.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 6–9. (Accepted for presentation, unable to attend due to weather). “The Mystery of Manhood: Reasserting Masculinity on The Pick-‐Up Artist.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 13–16. 2007 “‘I Want to Go Home’: Patriarchy, Paranoia, and Punishment in Turistas.” American Studies Graduate Conference. Austin, Texas. September 28. “Fantastic Reality: Toward a New Theory of Animation.” University of Chicago Conference on Animation. Chicago, Illinois. March 29–30. “The Unruly Woman in the Kitchen: Paula Deen and Food Network.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 14–17. 2006 “HBO: Past, Present, and Future.” Panel chair. Flow Conference. Austin, Texas. October 26–28. G R A N T S , F E L L O W S H I P S , A W A R D S , H O N O R S Fighting Fund Grant, University of Oregon (2015) New Junior Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon (2014) 5 Society for Cinema and Media Studies: Dissertation Award of Distinction (2014) Rackham School of Graduate Studies Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan (2012) Rackham School of Graduate Studies Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Michigan (2011) Rackham School of Graduate Studies Student Research Grant, University of Michigan (2011) Rackham School of Graduate Studies Spring/Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan. Awarded for “How Video Rental Changed the Movies.” Assistant Professor Dan Herbert as faculty research partner (2011) Screen Arts & Cultures Graduate Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan (2011) Screen Arts & Cultures Graduate Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan (2010) Rackham School of Graduate Studies Research Grant, University of Michigan (2009) Rackham School of Graduate Studies Spring/Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan. Awarded for “Study of the Emergence of Video Rental Stores and their Genres.” Assistant Professor Dan Herbert as faculty research partner (2009) Screen Arts & Cultures Graduate Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan (2009) Rackham School of Graduate Studies Support Fellowship, University of Michigan (2008-‐2009) Pic Wagner Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (2007) Unitus Scholarship for Academic Achievement (2005) P R E S S ( A S I N T E R V I E W E E ) Todd Leopold, “Forty Years Ago, Chaos Reigned in Pop Culture.” CNN.com (July 21, 2014). Freitag-‐Fey, Paul, “Filling a Vacancy in Home Video History: The Hidden World of Motel Hardcore Film Distribution.” Daily Grindhouse (July 22, 2013). T E A C H I N G University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication Undergraduate • Cinema, Sex, and Censorship (Honors, Winter 2016) • Media History (Fall 2015) 6 Mentoring •
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Media Sexualities (Fall 2015) Understanding Disney (Spring 2015) Media and Society (Spring 2015, Fall 2014) Copyright and Media (Winter 2015) •
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Rachel Smith, MA in Media Studies Michael Hess, MS in Media Studies. o Thesis: “Network Frontier: Reframing Exploration in Internet Rhetoric,” defended March 2, 1015. University of Michigan, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures As Instructor of Record • Gangster Films (Summer 2014) • Exploitation Cinemas (Summer 2013) • Classical Film Theory (Summer 2012) As Graduate Student Instructor • The Art of Film (Winter 2014, Fall 2013, Winter 2012, Fall 2011) • New Line and Hollywood Cinema (Winter 2013) • Film History, 1960-‐Present (Fall 2010, Winter 2010) • Film History, 1929-‐1959 (Fall 2009) University of Texas at Austin, Radio-‐Television-‐Film As Teaching Assistant • Communication and Ethnic Groups (Spring 2008) • Introduction to Media Studies (Fall 2007) E D I T O R I A L Co-‐Editor: Michigan Feminist Studies Journal. University of Michigan (2008 – 2009) Co-‐Editor-‐in Chief: Flow Journal. <www.flowtv.org> University of Texas at Austin (2007 – 2008) Reading Board: Intersections: Women's and Gender Studies in Review across Disciplines University of Texas at Austin (2007) Column Editor: Flow. University of Texas at Austin (2006 – 2007) Reading Board: The Velvet Light Trap. University of Texas at Austin (2006 – 2008) 7 S E R V I C E Media Studies, University of Oregon Ad-‐hoc Committee on Guest Speakers (2014-‐2015) Cinema Studies, University of Oregon Scholarly Activities Committee (2015-‐2016) Non-‐Tenure Track Faculty Committee (2014-‐2015) University of Michigan Graduate Student Instructor Mentor: Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan (2013) Vice President: Graduate Students’ Association, Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan (2011-‐2012) Graduate Student Representative: Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan (2008–2009) Founding Member: Graduate Students’ Association, Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan (2008) ORGANIZATIONS Society for Cinema & Media Studies Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group Adult Film History Project Scholarly Interest Group, Co-‐Chair (2015-‐2018) 8

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