University of Southern California
Faculty Member, Critical Studies
Assistant Chair of Critical Studies
School of Cinematic Arts
About
William Whittington is the Assistant Chair of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, where he conducts research and teaches courses in film and television history, genre studies, film and Buddhism, audio culture, digital culture, adaptation, and gender and sexuality in film, television and new media. Between 1993-1997, he served as the curator of the USC Warner Bros. Archives, assisting with research for various film restorations, documentaries, and books. He has also worked as an editor for Time Warner Trade Publishing and is currently the managing editor of SPECTATOR, the USC Critical Studies Journal of Film and Television Criticism. His scholarly work includes articles and interviews on genre, sound, new media and technology. His chapter on “Cinema Technology” appears in the 5th edition of Routledge’s INTRODUCTION TO FILM this fall, and he has two forthcoming chapters on digital aesthetics and technology, which will be published in anthologies by Oxford University Press. He is the author of SOUND DESIGN AND SCIENCE FICTION from University of Texas Press, 2007, and he is currently working on a new book for the University of Texas Press entitled SOUND DESIGN AND HORROR.
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