Brian R. Jacobson Brian R. Jacobson
University of Southern California
Ph.D. Candidate
Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate
bjacobso [at] usc [dot] edu
Curriculum Vitae


Brian R. Jacobson is a Ph.D. Candidate in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and a member of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate program. During the 2009-2010 academic year he is a Fulbright Advanced Student Fellow to France and a Fellow of the Social Science Research Council's 2009 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF). While in France, Brian is affiliated with the Institut d'histoire du temps présent (IHTP). He is currently completing research for his dissertation, Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology and Early Cinema, which examines the origins of the relationship between cinema, architecture, and technology in the world's first film studios.



Activities and Awards

Co-organizer, H-France Social Group
I am currently organizing social events for academics researching in Paris (cocktail hours, picnics, museum visits, etc.). For more information or to be added to the listserv, please send me an email.


Student Essay Award
Domitor - Society for the Study of Early Cinema
2009


Fulbright Advanced Student Fellowship
France, 2009-2010


International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
Social Science Research Council, 2009-2010


Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholar
2008-2009


Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
Visual Culture Research Field
Social Science Research Council, 2007


Co-organizer, Death(s) of Cinema
Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference
University of Southern California, March 2007
[Co-author, Introduction to Spectator, Vol. 27.3 (2007)]

Recent and Upcoming Presentations

"Factories of Vision/Visionary Factories: Early Cinema, Technology, and the Modern Built Environment"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Los Angeles, CA
Wed, March 17, 2010, 10-11:45, Session B8: Silent Cinema


"Les premiers studios du monde : architecture, technologie, et le film des premiers temps"
Séminaire « Cinéma et modernité. Histoire culturelle du cinéma »
Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA)
Galerie Colbert, Salle Pierre Demargne
17 February 2010, 18h


"The Imponderable Fluidity of Modernity: Cinema, Architecture, and the World’s First Film Studios"
UCI Visual Studies - Birth/Day
University of California at Irvine
March 6-7, 2009


"Modernity, Postmodernity, Convergence: What’s New?"
Media in Transition 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 27-29, 2007


"Digital Inscription: Marking the Flesh of the Cinematic Body"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Chicago, IL
March 8-11, 2007


"Perceptual Potentiality in the Spaces (and Sounds) of Michael Snow’s Wavelength"
Expanding the Visual Field
Department of Art History, University of Southern California
March 2006





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