Precarious Labor Organization Representative, 2025-2028
Biography
Joseph Clark (Ph.D. Brown University) is a Term Assistant Professor in Cinema Studies in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. He previously worked as contract faculty at the University of British Columbia, Emily Carr University
for Art and Design, Franklin & Marshall College, and Colby College. His research focuses on archival and non-theatrical media, including newsreels, home movies, and sponsored film. He is the author of News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and is currently working on a book on extraction cinema and the role of moving pictures in the forestry industry of the Pacific Northwest.
Degrees
Ph.D., American Studies, Brown University
M.A., American Studies, Brown University
M.A. History, University of British Columbia
B.A. History, University of British Columbia
Teaching and Research Interests
Archival media, non-theatrical film, documentary studies, eco-materialism, race and representation
Selected Publications
News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020).
“Teamwork: Carlton Moss, US Propaganda Film, and the Fight for Black Visibility in the Second World War,” in Simon Eliot and Marc Wiggam, Eds. Allied Communication during the Second World War: National and Transnational Networks (London: Bloomsbury
Publishing, 2019), 81-93.
“Double Vision: World War Two, Racial Uplift, and the All-American Newsreel’s Pedagogical Address,” in Charles Acland and Haidee Wasson, eds. Useful Cinema: Expanding Film Contexts (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011), 263-288."
Other Activities & Awards
"Persistence & Los" (2021) short film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam (2025), Festival of (In)Appropriation (2022-23), Antimatter (2022), Small File Media Festival (2020).
Programming Committee, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2016-present
Co-founder, Vancouver Podcast Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2018-2020
SCMS Board & Committee Service
Co-Chair, Precarious Labor Organization, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2020-2024
Co-Chair, Non-Theatrical Film Scholarly Interest Group, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2016-2020
Contact
The School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
149 West Hastings,
Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4
Canada
jec10@sfu.ca
Instagram: joeginclar
Facebook: joeginclark
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