David Scott Diffrient

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Institutional Affiliation

Colorado State University

Education

Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles

Research Interests

Cinema Studies; Transnationalism; Television Studies; Global Media Industries; Genre Studies; Narrative Studies

Profile

David Scott Diffrient is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. His articles have been published in Black Camera, Cinema Journal, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Journal of Fandom Studies, Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Television, Journal of Popular Film and Television, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Post Script, and Velvet Light Trap, as well as in several edited collections about film and television topics. He is the co-editor of Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls (2010) and East Asian Film Remakes (2023) as well as the author of M*A*S*H (2008), Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema (2014), Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television (2022), Body Genre: Anatomy of the Horror Film (2023), and (with coauthor Hye Seung Chung) Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (2015) and Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema (2021).

Selected Publications

• East Asian Film Remakes [coedited with Kenneth Chan] (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
• Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television (Syracuse University Press, 2022).
• Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema, coauthored with Hye Seung Chung (Rutgers University Press. 2021).
• Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema, coauthored with Hye Seung Chung (Rutgers University Press, 2015).
• Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema (Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press, 2014).
• Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls [with David Lavery] (Syracuse University Press, 2010).
• M*A*S*H [“TV Milestones Series”] (Wayne State University Press, 2008).