Janna Jones
Associate Professor
Cultural Studies, Cinematic Culture
School of Communication, Room 319
(928) 523-3596
Janna.Jones@nau.edu
Brief description of 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:
theyogaexperience.com (The Yoga Experience)
just-a-minute.org/index.shtml (It takes just-a-minute to transform your world)
imdb.com (Internet Movie Database)
Education:
Ph.D. Communication, University of South Florida, 1998
M.Ed., English Education, University of South Florida, 1991
B.A., English, Iowa State University, 1983
