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Communication and Media Studies Department

Ariel Rogers Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Film Studies
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Office

126 Bedford Street

Contact Information

Phone: (207)780-5562

Ariel Rogers received her Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago and her B.A. in Film Studies and Philosophy from Columbia University. She teaches in the areas of film and media studies, including film and media theory, international film history, spectatorship, new media, American cinema, melodrama, and women in film.

Her research focuses on the relationship between the forms cinema takes (including issues of style and technology) and the types of experience it offers viewers. This interest extends to cinema's confrontation with new media as well as to the modes of spatiality and embodiment cinema has elicited historically. Her book, Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies, is forthcoming in October 2013 from Columbia University Press. She has published articles on cinematic technologies and spectatorship in Cinema Journal and Film History.

Recent Publications

Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2013. 

 “‘You Don’t So Much Watch It As Download It’: Conceptualizations of Digital Spectatorship.” Film History 24, no. 2 (2012): 221-234.

 “‘Smothered in Baked Alaska’: The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema.” Cinema Journal 51, no. 3 (Spring 2012): 74-96.