Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles Program Faculty

Scott Cooper
Part Time Faculty (2000)
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; C.Phil., University of California, Los Angeles; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Scott is a graduate of M.I.T., having then done his graduate work in UCLA's Department of Film & Television, where he obtained an M.F.A. in Film Production and advanced to candidacy towards a Ph.D. in Film/TV Studies, researching the cultural politics of media representation during the pivotal two-term presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. His articles have appeared in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Questions of Third Cinema, Third World Affairs, and Journal of Cinema and Television. His M.F.A.thesis film, The Right Choice, won a Silver Apple at the National Educational Film and Video Festival and appeared in thirteen film festivals overall. Scott has served on the Emerson L.A. faculty since January, 2001, making the long trek up to Burbank from Venice Beach, where he's lived now for over fourteen years. Scott teaches the Media Arts Seminar in "Film and Television in an Age of Anxiety."


Faculty

Jim Lane, Executive Director

Charanne Clarke, Part Time Faculty

Marie Colabelli, Part Time Faculty

Kay Cole, Part Time Faculty

Scott Cooper, Part Time Faculty

Debra Epstein, Part Time Faculty

Ellen Gurney, Part Time Faculty

Julie Karickhoff, Part Time Faculty


Brad Lemack, Part Time Faculty

Paul Mandelbaum, Part Time Faculty

Jeffrey Omari, Part Time Faculty

Peter Schink, Part Time Faculty

Jennifer Vandever, Part Time Faculty

Joseph Walker, Part Time Faculty

Laurel Westrup, Part Time Faculty

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