Charles Acland

CANADA

Charles Acland is a Professor and Research Chair in Communications Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His fields of research include Popular Culture, Media Studies and Cultural History and Theory. He is the Editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and co-editor of Useful Cinema (Duke University Press, 2011), Residual Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), and Harold Innis in the New Century (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999). He is the author of three books: Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence (Duke University Press, 2012), Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture (Duke University Press, 2003) and Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of “Youth in Crisis,” (Westview Press, 1995).