James Lane
Senior Scholar-in-Residence II and Graduate Program Director, School of Film, Television, and Media Arts
Dr. Jim Lane is both a media scholar and film/video maker with extensive publications and production experience. He has published articles in Wide Angle, Jump Cut, The Journal of Film and Video, and Film History. In spring 2002, he published The Autobiographical Documentary in America through the University of Wisconsin Press.
His filmography includes a mix of autobiographical, documentary, and experimental films and videos, most of which have been exhibited at major film festivals in the United States and Europe. His autobiographical film, I Am Not an Anthropologist, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and an experimental work, Lightplay, won several awards at U.S. film festivals.
Dr. Lane has also been a film/video curator at the UCLA Film and TV Archive and Harvard Film Archive, and is the co-founder of the Boston Irish Film Festival. He has just completed his latest film, Looking Back, which reflects on adoption, family, and death.
Dr. Lane was the executive director of Emerson LA for 14 years, and is currently is also the founding director of the Prague Summer Program in Film.
Courses
- Film Genres
- Residency I - Storytelling and Writing Short Scripts
- Residency III - Long-Form Writing
- Seminar in Media Arts Topics
- Residency II - Series Television Writing
- Residency IV - The Business of Screenwriting
- Topics in Visual and Med Arts
- Topics in Media Arts: Practice
- Topics in Visual and Media Arts: Studies
