Charles Acland, Associate Member
Charles Acland is Distinguished University Research Professor in Communication Studies at Concordia University. He is author of Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture (Duke UP, 2003), Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of ‘Youth in Crisis’ (Westview/Perseus, 1995), and Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence (Duke UP, 2012) and most recently American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder (Duke UP, 2020). He is editor of Residual Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions (McGill-Queen’s UP, 1999) with William Buxton, and Useful Cinema (Duke UP, 2011) with Haidee Wasson. With Katie Russell, Acland edits the Canadian Journal of Film Studies/Revue canadienne d’études cinématographiques.