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Ryan Pierson
Associate Professor
+1 (403) 220-6723
Social Sciences 214
ryan.pierson@ucalgary.ca
Website:
http://www.ryan-pierson.com/
Research Interests
Film theory
film history
Animation
Currently Teaching
W2024 - COMS 643 - Issues in Film Studies
Details
LAB 1
W 14:00 - 16:45
SEM 1
F 13:00 - 15:45
W2024 - FILM 201 - Introduction to Film Studies
Details
LEC 1
T 15:30 - 16:20
LAB 1
T 16:30 - 19:15
W2024 - FILM 591 - Capstone Seminar in Film Studies
Details
LEC 1
F 13:00 - 15:45
Notes: Please note, undergrad students will only attend the first two hours of lecture.
LAB 1
W 14:00 - 16:45
view past courses
Publications
Book
Pierson, Ryan
.
Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics
Oxford University Press, 2019. Print.
Book Review
Pierson, Ryan
.
Dan Bashara, "Cartoon Vision: UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics"
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 2020. Print.
Forthcoming
Pierson, Ryan
.
In/Focus: Animation (dossier, ed.)
2021.
Pierson, Ryan
.
Postwar Animation and Modernist Criticism: The Case of Annette Michelson
(to appear)
Pierson, Ryan
.
Printing the Horizon: Adam Beckett's "Dear Janice"
(to appear)
Invited Lectures/Presentations
Pierson, Ryan
.
"Cycle Space." Seeing Movement, Being Moved: An Exploration of the Moving Camera. University of Chicago, October 2016.
2016.
Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed
Pierson, Ryan
.
"
Too Close, Not Blue: "Yellow Submarine"
"
. New Review of Film and Television Studies
15.1 (2017): 40-47. Print.
Pierson, Ryan
.
"
Whole-Screen Metamorphosis and the Imagined Camera (Notes on Perspectival Movement in Animation)
"
. animation: an interdisciplinary journal
10.1 (2015): 6-21. Print.
Pierson, Ryan
.
"
On Styles of Theorizing Animation Styles: Stanley Cavell at the Cartoon's Demise
"
. The Velvet Light Trap
, 69 (2012): 17-26. Print.
Pierson, Ryan
.
"
Making Sense of Early Video Arcades: The Case of Pittsburgh, 1980-1983
"
. Canadian Journal of Film Studies
20.2 (2011): 19-37. Print.
Courses
Curriculum Vitae
ryan-pierson-cv.pdf
Degrees
PhD - English
University of Pittsburgh
, 2012
MA - Cinema Studies
New York University
, 2005
BA - Film Studies and Philosophy
University of Georgia, 2004
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