About me
Hello. My name is Andrew, and I write about Westerns. And some other things.
I am Chair of the Department of Film & Media Arts and Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Utah. I completed my PhD at the University of Exeter under the supervision of Steve Neale, and previously taught at the University of Calgary and Montana State University. 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, The CM Russell Museum, and the Briscoe Western Art Museum. I am series editor of "The Popular West" at the University of Oklahoma Press and "Reel West" at the University of New Mexico Press. I serve on the Board of Directors of the John Wayne Birthplace and Museum. I also cohost the Western movie podcast "How the West Was 'Cast."
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.
I've appeared as a commentator in television series on History Channel and Fox News Channel, 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 to the Montreal Museum of Fine Art that October. I curated an exhibition based on Still in the Saddle at the Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio in the summer of 2021.
I am Chair of the Department of Film & Media Arts and Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Utah. I completed my PhD at the University of Exeter under the supervision of Steve Neale, and previously taught at the University of Calgary and Montana State University. 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, The CM Russell Museum, and the Briscoe Western Art Museum. I am series editor of "The Popular West" at the University of Oklahoma Press and "Reel West" at the University of New Mexico Press. I serve on the Board of Directors of the John Wayne Birthplace and Museum. I also cohost the Western movie podcast "How the West Was 'Cast."
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.
I've appeared as a commentator in television series on History Channel and Fox News Channel, 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 to the Montreal Museum of Fine Art that October. I curated an exhibition based on Still in the Saddle at the Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio in the summer of 2021.