About me
Hello. My name is Andrew, and I write about Westerns. And some other things.
I am Associate Professor of Film History and Critical Studies and the Film Option Coordinator at Montana State University. I completed my PhD at the University of Exeter under the supervision of Steve Neale. I have also been a Visiting Scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University and a guest film curator at the Autry Museum of the American West.
My research focuses on topics in American cinema, history and culture. My first monograph, Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969-1980, was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2015. I am co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and editor of Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television since 1990 (Scarecrow Press, 2013). Some of my other writing can be found in A Companion to D.W. Griffith, The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh, Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film, A History of Western American Literature, and elsewhere.
My current project is a critical biography of filmmaker Delmer Daves.
I appear in the first three seasons of the Fox News documentary series Legends & Lies, and regularly lecture at museums and film societies around the nation. I was the film advisor on "Once Upon a Time...The Western," a major museum exhibition on Western art and film, which opened at the Denver Art Museum in May 2017 and moved the Montreal Museum of Fine Art in October.
You can follow me on Twitter and Amazon.
I am Associate Professor of Film History and Critical Studies and the Film Option Coordinator at Montana State University. I completed my PhD at the University of Exeter under the supervision of Steve Neale. I have also been a Visiting Scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University and a guest film curator at the Autry Museum of the American West.
My research focuses on topics in American cinema, history and culture. My first monograph, Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969-1980, was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2015. I am co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and editor of Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television since 1990 (Scarecrow Press, 2013). Some of my other writing can be found in A Companion to D.W. Griffith, The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh, Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film, A History of Western American Literature, and elsewhere.
My current project is a critical biography of filmmaker Delmer Daves.
I appear in the first three seasons of the Fox News documentary series Legends & Lies, and regularly lecture at museums and film societies around the nation. I was the film advisor on "Once Upon a Time...The Western," a major museum exhibition on Western art and film, which opened at the Denver Art Museum in May 2017 and moved the Montreal Museum of Fine Art in October.
You can follow me on Twitter and Amazon.