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Clint Froehlich is a film studies generalist particularly interested in post-1960 Hollywood and American cinema, contemporary international cinema, video games, and various film genres. He completed his PhD in Cinema Media Studies at the University of Chicago, with a dissertation titled “Playing Cinema: Development of Audio-Visual Style in Video Games,” focusing on the technological and stylistic changes in video games throughout the 1990s and their formal relationships to cinematic art. Froehlich received his BA in Visual and Environmental Studies, with an emphasis on Film Studies, from Harvard University. At the University of Chicago, he has served as a Lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, guiding undergraduate majors in preparing written theses and teaching writing in the Core program. Hailing from Idaho, he finds joy in watching films at the Music Box Theatre and reminisces about Chicago’s former Navy Pier IMAX. He is set to teach CMST 10100 Introduction to Film Analysis in Winter Quarter 2025 and CMST 28700 History of International Cinema III, 1960-Present in Spring Quarter 2025, with previous courses including Advanced Seminar: Post-Classical American Cinema and various international cinema history classes.
Department of Philosophy