About
Dr. Jeremy Butler is a professor emeritus of film and TV. He taught television, film, and media-studies courses from 1977 to 2022–at Northwestern University, the University of Alabama and the University of Arizona.
His final book project, The Sitcom, was published by Routledge (2019). Previously, Routledge also published Television Style (2009).
Butler wrote the textbook, Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture (now in its fifth edition; formerly known as Television: Critical Methods and Applications), edited the anthology, Star Texts: Image and Performance in Film and Television, and published articles on Mad Men, ER, Roseanne, Miami Vice, Imitation of Life, soap opera, the sitcom, and other topics in journals such as Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, and Screen.
For some time now Butler has been active in online educational resources for film/TV studies. He created Screen-L and ScreenSite, two of the earliest Internet resources for film/TV teachers/students; and he served as the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ first information technology officer.
Butler’s continues to host a weekly radio program, All Things Acoustic, on Alabama Public Radio and he maintains an online gallery of his photographs.
Education
Ph.D. Northwestern University
M.A. Northwestern University
B.A. Brown University
Former Research Interests
- Television stylistics
- Genre (soap opera, film noir, the Western, the sitcom, and so on)
- European cinema
- Star/celebrity studies
- Media convergence
Contact
Further information: jbutlerphd.com
E-mail: jbutler@ua.edu
