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TANINE ALLISON
Department of Film and Media Studies
Emory University
​updated June 2021

EDUCATION
  • Ph.D., 2010   University of Pittsburgh, English with Certificates in Film Studies and Cultural Studies
  • A.B., 2001   Brown University, Modern Culture and Media

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
  • Associate Professor, Emory University, Department of Film and Media Studies, 2019–present
  • Assistant Professor, Emory University, Department of Film and Media Studies, 2013–2019
  • American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow, Emory University, Department of Film and Media Studies, 2011–2013

PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Book Essays in Blind Peer-Reviewed Journals Essays in Peer-Reviewed Edited Collections
  • “Visual Effects: The Modern Entertainment Marketplace (2000-present),” Editing and Special/Visual Effects, edited by Kristen Whissel and Charlie Keil, Behind the Silver Screen Series (Rutgers University Press, 2016), 172–185.
  • “How to Recognize a War Movie: The Contemporary Science Fiction Blockbuster as Military Recruitment Film,” A Companion to the War Film, edited by Douglas A. Cunningham and John Nelson (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), 253–270.
  • “Blackface, Happy Feet: The Politics of Race in Motion Capture and Animation,” Special Effects: New Histories, Theories, Contexts, edited by Dan North, Bob Rehak, and Michael Duffy (BFI/Palgrave, 2015), 114–126.
Book Project in Progress
  • Mediating the Human in Digital Visual Effects
 
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
  • University Research Committee, Emory University, 2015–2016
  • American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellowship, 2011–2013
  • Fund for Innovative Teaching Grant, “Video Games in the Academy,” Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Emory University, 2011–2012
  • Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2008–2009
  • Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Fellows, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
  • Research Travel Grant, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
  • Elizabeth Baranger Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Pittsburgh, 2006

PRESENTATIONS (selected)
Invited Talks
  • “Digital Will Smith: Gemini Man, Visual Effects, and Post-Racial Ideology,” Emory University Art History Department, Virtual, April 13, 2021.
  • “Interactive Movies? Until Dawn and the Limits of Control in Video Games,” Georgia State University, November 7, 2018.
  • “War, Media, and the Destructive Sublime,” Appalachian State University, October 18, 2018.
  • “War, Media, and the Destructive Sublime,” Emory University, October 2, 2018.
  • “Game On: Emerging Interactive Technology for Research and Teaching,” with Daniel Reynolds, Life of the Mind talk sponsored by Emory Office of the President and the Provost, November 2, 2016.  Recording available at https://youtu.be/D__FICz4L4Q.
  • “Digital Warfare: Adapting the World War II Combat Film for Video Games,” Film and Media Studies Colloquium, Emory University, September 8, 2011.
Conferences
  • “Digitizing Will Smith: (Post-)Race and the Digital Human in Gemini Man,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Virtual, March 17–24, 2021.
  • “Digital Restoration as Historical Spectacle,” Roundtable on They Shall Not Grow Old (2018), Film & History Conference (Designing Culture and Character: Technology in Film, Television, and New Media), Madison, Wisc., Nov. 14–17, 2019.
  • “Digital Transference: Race, Gender, and the Transformational Promise of Motion Capture,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, March 13–17, 2019.
  • Panel Co-organizer/Co-chair: “Contested Cartographies: Mapping Gender and Genre in Contemporary Film and Television,” with Eileen Rositzka. Paper: “‘This Is One War We’re Not Gonna Lose’: Gender, Orientalism, and Destructive Cartography in Kong: Skull Island.” Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, Bournemouth University, UK, July 11–13, 2018.
  • “Are Video Games Becoming Movies, and Vice Versa?” Ends of Cinema Conference, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, May 3–5, 2018.
  • “Acting Posthuman: Performance Capture and Video Games,” Rendering (the) Visible III: Liquidity Conference, Georgia State University, February 8–10, 2018.
  • Panel Organizer/Chair: “Reexamining Gender and Violence in Contemporary Video Games.” Paper: “Gender, Possession, and Representational Violence in Video Games,” Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, East Carolina University, July 27–29, 2017.
  • “Abstracting Bodies in Experimental Motion Visualizations,” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Atlanta, Nov. 3-6, 2016.
  • Panel Organizer/Chair: “War in Contemporary Global Media: Between Commemoration and Critique.” Paper: “Saving White Masculinity: American War Films of the Late 1990s,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, March 30–April 3, 2016.
  • “Celebrities’ Replay Value,” Extending Play: The Sequel Media Studies Conference, Rutgers University, April 17–18, 2015.
  • “Beyond the Photoreal: Motion Capture, Performance, and Identification in Video Games,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, March 19–23, 2014.
  • “The Uncanny Hybrids of Motion Capture in Video Games,” Rendering (the) Visible II: Figure Conference, Georgia State University, February 6–8, 2014.
  • Panel Organizer/Chair: “War and Science Fiction in Contemporary Films and Video Games.” Paper: “The ‘Good War’… Now with Aliens!  Remediating War in the Science-Fiction Blockbuster,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, March 6–10, 2013.

INTERVIEWS
  • Radio interview on Veterans Day films for “City Lights with Lois Reitzes,” Nov. 2020
  • Online profile in the Atlanta Jewish Times, “The Impact of Media and Video Games,” Aug. 2019
  • Video interview on multimodal assignments for Domain of One’s Own program at Emory, May 2015
  • Radio interview on the best films of 2014 for “On Second Thought” on GPB radio, Dec. 2014
  • Print interview on X-Men: Days of Future Past, “Nostalgia Draws New X-Men Film Back to theFuture,” for Emory News, May 2014
  • Radio interview on the “Movie Magic” special effects screening series and research projects on ARTSpeak, AM1690 radio, Oct. 2012