Faculty

JOHN McCULLOUGH

PhD (York)
Associate Professor: Film Studies
Department of Film, York University

johnmccu@yorku.ca

John McCullough's primary area of interest is popular North American film and television including analysis of media labour in the context of globalization and the representation of spatial, class and racial relations. His influences include Marxist cultural studies, classical film theory, postcolonial theory and a variety of theoretical approaches associated with post-structuralism, the debates about modernism and postmodernism, and historical materialist geography (including especially the work of Benjamin, the Situationists, Lefebvre, Barthes, Derrida, Baudrillard, Foucault, Kristeva, Jameson, Bourdieu, Habermas, Harvey, Massey and Karatani).

Professor McCullough's current research includes work on the television programs 24 and The Wire, the history of the representation of the middle classes in movies, and the role of regionalism in Canadian film and television.

 

Books
2009: Co-editor, Locating Migrating Media, Ed. Charles Davis, Greg Elmer, Janine Marchessault, and John McCullough. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming).

1998: Co-editor and "Introduction," John Porter’s Film Activity Book, Ed. John McCullough and Tom Taylor. (Toronto, ON: Pleasure Dome).

 

Essays and Chapters in Books
2009: "Saskatchewan Television Labour and Jurisdictional Advantage," Locating Migrating Media, Ed. Charles Davis, Greg Elmer, Janine Marchessault, and John McCullough. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming).

2008: "Imperialism, Regionalism, Humanism: Gullages, Trailer Park Boys and Representations of Canadian Space in Global Hollywood," Rain / Drizzle / Fog: Essays on Atlantic Canadian Film and Television, Ed. Darrell Varga. (Calgary, AB:  University of Calgary Press), 151-169.

2008: "Representations of Urban Conflict in Moccasin Flats," Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television. Ed. Zoë Druick and Patsy Kotsopoulos. (Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press), 229-246.

2007: "The Dialectics of Canadian Film Labour: Technology, Globalization, Nation," Fluid Screens: Time, Digital Aesthetics and the Cultures of Everyday Life, Ed. Susan Lord and Janine Marchessault. (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press), 239-257.

2006: "Rude and the Representation of Class Relations in Canadian Film," Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema. Ed. Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press), 246-267.

2006: "Regina, Capital of the 21st Century," Regina’s Secret Spaces: Love and Lore of Local Geography, Ed. Lorne Beug, Anne Campbell, and Jeannie Mah. (Regina, SK: Canadian Plains Research Centre), 155-164.

1999: "The Entwined Histories of Bruce La Bruce and Pleasure Dome," Lux: A Decade of Artists’ Films and Videos, Ed. Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor (Toronto, ON: Pleasure Dome and YYZ Books), 157-158.

 

Essays:
2004: "Tedium and Torture: Fight Club, Globalization, and Professionals in Crisis," CineAction 65, 44-53. 

2001: "The Exile of Professionals: John Glenn, 2001 and Planet of the Apes," Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Volume 10, No.2, Fall, 36-58.

1999: "Rude, or the Elision of Class in Canadian Movies," CineAction 49, 19-25.

1995: "Hearts Of Hate: The Poverty of the Liberal Documentary," CineAction 37, 21-28.

1991: "Documentary and Figuration," CineAction 22, 54-59.

1990: "Pedagogy in The Perverse Text," CineAction 19/20, 74-83.

1989     "Imagining Mr. Average," CineAction 17, 43-55.