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James Leo Cahill’s research focuses on French cinema cultural history, nonfiction experimental media, critical theory, and historiography, with a special interest in scientific cinema and animals in moving image media. His book, Zoological Surrealism: Nonhuman Cinema Jean Painlevé, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. His current projects explore postwar French cinema, literature, and the conceptualizations of world and globalization, as well as themes of collaboration, colonialism, and coca-colonization. Professor Cahill teaches graduate courses on French cinema and subjects including the history and theory of international cinema, and he leads seminars on Surrealism in cinema and the historiography of film media. He serves as the general editor of Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media Culture and has been a residential fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and a visiting professor at the Franke Institute for Humanities at the University of Chicago.
Department of Sociology