Charles R. Acland, PhD

Distinguished University Research Professor, Communication Studies

Office:	L-CJ 4.419 Communication Studies and Journalism Building, 7141 Sherbrooke W.
Phone:	(514) 848-2424 ext. 2558
Email:	C.Acland@concordia.ca
Availability:	By appointment.

Education

BA, Commerce (Economics and Marketing), Carleton University

Graduate Diploma, Communication Studies, Concordia University

PhD, Institute of Communications Research (Cultural Studies), University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Postdoctoral Scholar, Communication Studies, Concordia University

Areas of research

Media and Cultural Theory, Film and Moving Image Studies, Cultural History, Audiovisual Technology, Popular Culture, Media Industries

Selected publications

Articles (peer reviewed)

Smith, Patrick Brian and Ryan Watson. “Mediated Forensics and Militant Evidence: Rethinking the Camera as Gun.” Media, Culture and Society (Forthcoming, 2022).

Smith, Patrick Brian and Kenzie Burchell. “Teaching Forensic Media: Practical and Collaborative Learning.” JCMS Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Teaching Media Dossier: Documentary Pedagogy (Forthcoming, 2022).

Smith, Patrick Brian. “Counter Logistics/Counter Forensics.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Media and Paranoia Special Issue (Forthcoming, 2022).

Smith, Patrick Brian. “Documenting Extractive and Indigenous
Futurities: Thirza Cuthand and Thomas Kneubühler’s Radical Work.”Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism 47, no. 4 (2020): 50–68.

Smith, Patrick Brian. “The Politics of Spatiality in Experimental Nonfiction Cinema: Jonathan Perel’s ‘Toponimia.’” NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies 5, no. 2 (2016): 49-71.

Articles (non-peer reviewed)

Smith, Patrick Brian, Stephen Connolly and Matthew Gibson. “Visualising Spatial Injustice and Exploitation, Q&A with Alberto Toscano and Miranda Pennell.” Mediapolis 3, no. 2 (2018), http://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2018/07/visualising-spatial-injustice-qa-one-toscano.

Smith, Patrick Brian and Patrick Brodie. “Documenting Capital: Intersections of Free Trade Zone Architecture and Digital Filmmaking.” Pause Button 4 (2017).

Book chapters

Smith, Patrick Brian. “Working/Slow: Cinematic Style as Labour in Wang Bing’s Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks.” In Traditions in World Cinema: Slow Cinema, edited by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Jorge, 180-191. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

Reviews

Smith, Patrick Brian. Review of Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film, by John David Rhodes. Film Studies 20 (2019): 56-58.

Smith, Patrick Brian. Review of Absence/Landing Sites, by Thomas Kneubühler. Ciel Variable 112 (2019): 88-89.

Smith, Patrick Brian. “Evidentiary Aesthetics: Landscapes of Violence at RIDM 2017.” NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 14 (2018), https://necsus-ejms.org/evidentiary-aesthetics-landscapes-of-violence-at-ridm-2017/.