- Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Department of Communication, Media and Film
Charles Tepperman
Research Interests
Currently Teaching
| F2024 - FILM 321 - History Of Popular Cinema | |||||||||||||||||
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| F2024 - FILM 409.2 - Special Topics in Film Studies (Amateur Media Kodak to YouTube) | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2025 - FILM 201 - Introduction to Film Studies | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2025 - FILM 351 - Canadian Film | |||||||||||||||||
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Research
Project Director of the Amateur Movie Database at amateurcinema.org.
- SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (PI), 2020-2022: "International Amateur Cinema Between the Wars (1919-1939): Amateur Movie Database Partnership Project." Project partners: University of Calgary, Ryerson University, Concordia University, University of East Anglia, Università degli Studi di Udine, Filmoteca de Catalunya.
- URGC Partnership Seed Grant (PI), 2018-2019: "Extending an Alternative Film History: Amateur Movie Database International Partnership Pilot Project." Project partner: Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
- SSHRC Insight Grant (PI), 2015-2018: "Mapping an Alternative Film History: A Database of Significant Amateur Films (1928-1971)"
"Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning," 2019-2020 - AHRC (UK) Networking Grant (Project participant; PI: Rebecca Arnold, Courtauld Institute)
Film Production Culture in Canada: Case Study of a Creative Producer - SSHRC Insight Development Grant (PI), 2015-2017
Publications
Book
- Tepperman, Charles. Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960 Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. Print.
Book Chapter
- Tepperman, Charles. "‘All the Wonderful Possibilities of Motion Pictures’: Hiram Percy Maxim and the Aesthetics of Amateur Filmmaking" Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960 Ed. McNamara, Martha and Sheldon, Martha Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. Print.
- Tepperman, Charles. "Uncovering Canada’s Amateur Film Tradition: Leslie Thatcher’s Films and Contexts" Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada Ed. Druick, Zoë and Cammaer, Gerda Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. Print.
- Tepperman, Charles. "Color Unlimited: Amateur Color Cinema in the 1930s" Color and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive Ed. Eds. Simon Brown, Sarah Street and Liz Watkins Routledge Press, 2012. Print.
- Tepperman, Charles. "Mechanical Craftsmanship: Amateurs Making Practical Films" Useful Cinema Ed. Charles Acland and Haidee Wasson Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Print.
- Tepperman, Charles. "Digging the Finest Potatoes from their Acre: Government Film Exhibition in Rural Ontario, 1917-1934" Hollywood in the Neighbourhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing Ed. Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Print.
Journal Article
- Tepperman, Charles. "Dossier: The Complex Materialities of Amateur Cinema: Texts, Archives and Digital Methods". Screen 61.1 (2020): 119-128. Print.
- Tepperman, Charles. ""A Recognized Screen": The New York Annual Movie Parties from Parlor to Public". Film History 30.1 (2018): 58-85. Print.
- Tepperman, Charles. "Bureaucrats and Movie Czars: Canada’s Feature Film Policy since 2000". Media Industries 4.2 (2017). Print.
- Tepperman, Charles. "The Amateur Movie Database: Archives, Publics, Digital Platforms". The Moving Image 17.2 (2017): 106-110. Print.
- Tepperman, Charles. "Stolen From the Realm of Night: Modernity, Visual Culture and the Reception of Cinema in Ottawa". Canadian Journal of Film Studies 18.2 (2009): 2-25. Print.
- Tepperman, Charles and Mebold, Anke. "Resurrecting the Lost History of 28mm Film". Film History 15.2 (2003): 137-151. Print.
Degrees
- PhD - Cinema and Media Studies
University of Chicago, 2007 - MA - Film Studies
Carleton University, 2000 - BA (Hons) - Cinema Studies and Literary Studies
University of Toronto, 1998
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