 Associate Professor of EnglishOffice: Hellems 110 Telephone: 303-735-3113 E-mail: Mark.Winokur@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Popular culture; film; science fiction; technology and media; American studies; American race and ethnicity studies
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1987
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1980
B.A., Brandeis University, 1977
Publications
Books
With Bruce Holsinger, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Movies, Flicks, and Film. Alpha Books, 2000
American Laughter: Immigrants, Ethnicity, and 1930s Hollywood Film Comedy. St. Martin's Press, 1996
Essays
“Costume Jewry: South Park’s Holocaust of the Passion.” English Language Notes 44, 1 (2006): 253-57
“InterpraNet: Foucault’s Panopticon Versus the Codes of Cyberspace.” Recapturing the Personal: Essays on Education and Embodied Knowledge in Comparative Perspective. Ed. Irving Epstein. Information Age Publishing, 2006, 23-56
"Technologies of Race: Special Effects, Fetish, Film, and the Fifteenth Century." Genders 40 (2004)
"The Ambiguous Panopticon: Foucault and the Codes of Cyberspace." Ctheory (March 2003). Rpt. in Life in the Wires: the CTheory Reader. NWP Press, 2004, 285-308
"Body and Soul: Identifying (with) the Black Lesbian Body in Cheryl Dunye's Watermelon Woman." Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representation By African American Women. Ed. Michael Bennett and Vanessa D. Dickerson. Rutgers Univ. Press, 2000, 231-52
"Christ, Race, and the All-Black Musical." Film and History 25, 1-2 (1995): 6-16
"Marginal Marginalia: The African American Voice in the Nouvelle Gangster Film." The Velvet Light Trap 35 (Spring 1995): 19-32
"Eating Children is Wrong" (original title: "Sicilians Eat Their Children: The Nouveau Gangster as Ritual Scapegoat"). Sight and Sound 1, 7 (Nov. 1991): 10-13
"Black Is White/White Is Black: 'Passing' as a Strategy of Racial Compatibility in Contemporary Hollywood Comedy." Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema. Ed. Lester D. Friedman. Univ. of Illinois Press, 1991, 190-211. Excerpts rpt. in Voices of the African Diaspora: The CAAS Research Review 7, 3 (Fall 1991): 33-36
"Lee Lourdeaux and Mark Winokur on Ethnicity in Film." Cinema Journal 27, 2 (Winter 1988): 50-54
"Improbable Ethnic Hero: William Powell and the Transformation of Ethnic Hollywood." Cinema Journal 27, 1 (Fall 1987): 5-22
"Modern Times and the Comedy of Transformation." Literature/Film Quarterly 15 (1987): 219-26
"Smile Stranger: Aspects of Immigrant Humor in the Marx Brothers' Comedy." Literature/Film Quarterly 13 (1985): 161-71
Selected honors and awards
Marinus Smith Faculty/Staff Recognition Award. CU Parents' Association, 2005
IMPART Award, CU Boulder, 2003
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 1995
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1989
Current projects
Technologies of Race: Makeup, Special Effects and Ethnic Groups in American Film (book)