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Dr. Barry Grant

Affiliation

Brock University

Academy or College

Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Year Elected

2010

Areas of Interest

Science fiction, horror, the western, film musicals, popular music, computer games, popular culture

Grant, Barry Keith - Film/Cultural Studies - Brock University
Barry Keith Grant is an internationally known critic, theorist, editor, and teacher of film studies and popular culture. He is the author or editor of twenty books that have helped shape these fields. His work has been widely influential in the areas of popular film genres, Canadian cinema, documentary film, computer games, and popular music.

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Grant, Barry Keith - Film/Cultural Studies - Brock University
Barry Keith Grant is an internationally known critic, theorist, and teacher of Film Studies and Popular Culture. His areas of expertise include popular cinema, film genres and genre theory, Canadian cinema, documentary film, computer games and gaming, and popular music. He has done pioneering research on such issues as gender and violence in film and popular culture, and he has helped develop new advances in the camera techniques employed in computer games. The author or editor of more than twenty books and numerous essays, he also is highly regarded as an editor with several scholarly presses.