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Department of Theory and History of Audiovision (KTHA)

The Department of Theory and History of Audiovision

richard nowell

lecturer

Dr. Richard Nowell is a researcher and a lecturer at FAMU. His research and teaching focuses on American audiovisual culture, with an emphasis on historical trends in film production, assembly, marketing, and distribution. He is currently part of a research team examining Comfort Media, and is working on an edited collection about horror film promotion on the US market. He has published internationally on Hollywood and the Cold War, Youth-oriented cinema, and especially horror. He is also the author of Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle (Bloomsbury), the editor of Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema (Bloomsbury), and his work can be seen in various collections and journals including Cinema Journal, the Journal of Film & Video, and the New Review of Film and Television Studies.