Patrick Brian Smith
Part-time Professor, Cinema

Email: | patrick.smith@concordia.ca |
Website(s): |
Patrick's Academia.edu |
Patrick Brian Smith, PhD, is a Part Time Lecturer and Researcher in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. His research interests include documentary, spatial and political theory, media forensics and human rights discourse.
His doctoral thesis, Capital, Carcerality, Borders: Documentary Spatiality (awarded in 2020 and funded by a Fonds de recherche du Québec, Société et culture Doctoral Research Award) examined how non-fiction media’s engagements with space and geography serve to expose various forms of political and economic violence.
Teaching activities
Winter 2018
FMST 332 - Issues in Independent Cinema: Cinema of Resistance in a Neoliberal Age
Part-time Instructor
Winter 2019
FMST 211 - Film History to 1959
Part-time Instructor
Winter 2020
Publications
Smith, Patrick Brian. “Counter Logistics/Counter Forensics.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Media and Paranoia Special Issue (forthcoming).
2019