Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of Film Studies (on the Sam Spiegel Fund)

American Studies

Expertise

American Film and culture.

Awards and Honors

Edwin Smith Family Distingusihed Speaker Award from the Westfield Athenaeum (2010)

Boston Society of Film Critics Special Commendation for Hollywood's Censor (2008)

Fulbright Senior Specialist (Albania) (2006)

Academy Film Scholar (The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) (2003)

Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant (Universitiy of Waikato) (2003)

Theater Library Association Award for "excellence in writing about film and broadcasting" (2000 - 2001)

J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board travel grant (1996 - 1997)

Fellow, Directors Guild of America (1992 - 1993)

Fulbright Fellowship (Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies, The Netherlands) (1990 - 1991)

Fulbright Research Lectureship (South Korea) (1981 - 1982)

Courses Taught

AMST	35a	Hollywood and American Culture
AMST	100a	Classic Texts in American Culture Before 1900
AMST	100b	Twentieth-Century American Culture
AMST	115a	American Graphic: Comics, Graphic Novels, and Graphic Nonfiction
AMST	130b	Television and American Culture
AMST	131b	News on Screen
AMST	135b	Radio in American Culture
AMST	177b	True Crime and American Culture
USEM	64a	True Crime and American Culture

Scholarship

Doherty, Thomas. "Storied TV: Cable Is the New Novel." Chronicle of Higehr Education B13-B15.

Doherty, Thomas. Hollywood and Hitler. first ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.

Doherty, Thomas. Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration. Columbia University Press, 2007.

Doherty, Thomas. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. Columbia University Press, 2003.

Doherty, Thomas. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934. Columbia University Press, 1999.

Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. Columbia University Press, 1993.

Doherty, Thomas. Teenagers & Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950's. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988.