
Visual & Media Arts Faculty
Kenneth FeilScholar-In-Residence (1995) B.S., Emerson College; M.A., Emerson College; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin Ken Feil is the author of Dying For A Laugh: Disaster Movies and The Camp Imagination (Wesleyan University Press, 2006). Upcoming publications include "'Talk About Bad Taste': Camp, Cult, and the Reception of What's New, Pussycat?" in Convergence Media History (edited by Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake, forthcoming June 2009, Routledge Press) and "'Esthetically As Well As Morally Repulsive': Kiss Me, Stupid, 'Bilious' Billy, and the Battle of Middlebrow Taste" in a collection on director Billy Wilder (edited by Karen McNally, forthcoming, McFarland). Ken has also commented on various events and issues in popular culture for the Boston Herald, the BBC program The Greatest Ever Disaster Movies (2007), and the CNBC special Nuclear Options (2008). |


