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From my FTT bio page<\/a>: Christine Becker received her B.A. in Humanities from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993 and Ph.D. in Communication Arts: Film Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. She has been in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame since 2000, specializing in film and television history, critical analysis of film and television, and media industry studies. She also teaches courses for the Sport, Media, and Culture Minor. Her current research project is focused on the history of the South Bend television show Beyond Our Control<\/em> (WNDU, 1968-1986).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representative Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cListening to the Dreadfuls\u201d in Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel, eds., Penny Dreadful and Adaptation: Reanimating and Transforming the <\/em>Monster<\/em>. (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2023), 31-47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a Long Time\u2026 A Rectify<\/em> Video Essay,\u201d co-created with FTT alum Tanner Cipriano,  [in]Transition<\/em> (Vol. 9 No. 2: 2022), Link<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNewsNation: Local Broadcasting, National Cable Channels, and the Evolution of WGN\u201d in Derek Johnson, ed., From Networks to Netflix: <\/em>A Guide to Changing Channels<\/em>, Second Edition. (Routledge, 2022), 91-100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAtypical Television? The Creative Evolution and Reception of Netflix\u2019s Atypical<\/em>,\u201d in Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer, eds., Autism<\/em> in Film and Television: <\/em>On the Island<\/em>. (University of Texas Press, 2022), 159-173.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKnife Crime and Passion: A Very Special Episode of EastEnders<\/em>,\u201d in Jennifer Porst and Jonathan Cohn, eds., Very Special Episodes: Event <\/em>Television and Social Change<\/em>. (Rutgers University Press, 2021), 201-214.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBBC America: Cloning Drama for a Transnational Network,\u201d in Michele Hilmes, Roberta Pearson, and Matt Hills, eds., Contemporary Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs and Fans<\/em>. (Oxford University Press, 2019), 69-86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Accent on Talent: The Valorization of British Actors on American Quality Television,\u201d in Christopher Hogg and Tom Cantrell, eds., Exploring Television Acting<\/em>. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018), 140-153.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOff Goes the Telly: Writer Discourse on the Life on Mars Franchise Finales,\u201d Journal of Screenwriting<\/em> (Vol 6 Num 2: 2015): 173-188.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Paul Newman: Superstardom and Anti-Stardom,\u201d in Pamela Robertson Wojcik, ed., New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s<\/em>, Star Decades: American Culture\/American Cinema<\/em> series, Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2011), 14-33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on Fifties Television<\/em>. (Wesleyan University Press, 2009).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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