Janna Jones  

 

Associate Professor
Cultural Studies, Cinematic Culture
School of Communication, Room 319
928-523-3596
Janna.Jones@nau.edu 

Research and teaching interests

My primary research interest is making sense of and interpreting the ways that contemporary culture constructs the cinematic past. My teaching interests focus upon helping my students reconsider many of their long-standing assumptions by thinking critically about the world in which they live and their place in it.

Courses offered

Undergraduate:

Communication Theory
History of Entertainment

Graduate:

Writing for Publication and Presentation
Rhetorical Theory

Representative research and creative activity

The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall, and Resurrection, (University Press of Florida, 2003)

“Confronting the Past in the Archival Film and the Contemporary Documentary,” The Moving Image, fall 2004, p.1-21

“Channeling Hollywood: Picture Palace Employees and the Culture of Hollywood,” The Journal of Popular Film and Television, 31:3, 2003, pp. 109-124.

Links of interest

The Yoga Experience 
Internet Movie Database 

Education

PhD, Communication, University of South Florida, 1998
MEd, English Education, University of South Florida, 1991
BA, English, Iowa State University, 1983