M. James Stock

Books

• Always Crashing: Automobility and the Cinema [in progress]
• Ephemeral Archives and Dead Media: The Lives and Afterlives of Horror Film Websites [in progress]

Articles

• “What’s in the Windshield: Rear-Projection and Automobility,” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies [JCMS] 64.1 (Fall, 2024).
• “The Nest in the Shell: Phenomenology, Postwar Automobility and Film Noir Cars,” Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Cultures, Vol. 8, No. 3 (September 2023). “
• Seeing by Automobility: Protoautomobility, Immersion, the Traveler-Spectator, and the Phantom Ride, 1897-1912,” in States of Immersion: Bodies, Media Technologies, Ed. Philippe Bédard (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023).
• “Body Horror Behind the Wheel: Mapping the Aesthetics of the Driving Safety Gore Film in Horror,” in Hororo Cogitare: Critical Essays on the Intersection of Horror and Philosophy, Ed. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Press, 2023).
• “Pandemic Modes of Automobility: Navigating Health, Safety, and Entertainment in Quarantimes,” Wide Screen, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2022).
• “The Spectacle of Society, the Society of Failure, and the Authentication of Punk; Or, Elvis is Dead,” in Punk and Philosophy: God Save the Queen (of Sciences), Ed. Josh Heter and Richard Greene (Chicago: Carus Publishing Company, 2022).
• “Ephemeral Archives of the Vanishing Present: The Hauntological and the Uncanny in The Blair Witch (Website) Project,” in Routledge Horror Film and Media Companion, Ed. Andrea Wood and Jamie McDaniel (London: Routledge, 2023), (forthcoming).
• “Pain Index, Plain Suffering, and Blood Measure: A Victimology of the Driving Safety Gore Film in Mid-Century America,” in Reimagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media, Ed. Madelon Hoedt and Marko Lukic (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024), (forthcoming).
• “Taking Aim on the Driving Dead: Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets, Gun Control, and the Vulnerability of Automobility,” in Screening Controversy, Ed. Mark McKenna (London: Routledge, 2024), (forthcoming).
• “The Birth of a Mobile Cinema: Protoautomobility and the Phantom Ride, 1897-1906,” in And Yet it Moves. On Cinema, Media and Mobility, Ed. Simona Schneider and Andrea Mariana (Udine, Italy: Mimesis International, 2023), (forthcoming).
• “Eco-Horror and Ruined Landscapes in the Early Films of Wes Craven,” in A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, Ed. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and John Darowski (New York: Lexington Books, 2023), (forthcoming)
• “Hammer’s Rippers Under Analysis: Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), Hands of the Ripper (1971), and Psychopathology Versus Anti-Psychiatry,” in Hammer Horror Films: Critical Readings, Ed. Fernando Pagnoni and Matthew Edwards (London: Routledge, 2023), (forthcoming).
• “Automobilty and Rear-Projection,” The Audiovisual Lexicon, Vincent Longo and Matthew Solomon, eds., (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2026, under contract). “Trashing the Corpse aka The Net and Gross Value of the Living Dead,” The Spectator, Volume 26 No. 2, (Fall 2006), 70-80.

Conference Presentations

• “Dead Media, Ephemeral Archives, Transitory Transmedia: The Blair Witch Project Website, Hauntology, and the Digital Uncanny,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference. Denver, CO. (April 2023.)
• “From Red Asphalt to Highways of Agony: Mapping the Roots of Body Horror in Driving Safety Films of the 1950s and 1960s,” Southwest Popular and American Culture Association 44th Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. (February 2023.)
• Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster Roundtable: Teaching and the Apocalypse, Southwest Popular and American Culture Association 44th Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. (February 2023.)
• “Pain Index, Plain Suffering, and Blood Measure: Locating the Driving Safety Gore Film in Horror.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA. (November 2022.)
• “Hauntings from a Green Place: Iterations of the EcoGothic in the Igbo Landing Tale in the Films of Ngozi Onwurah, Julie Dash and Beyoncé,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference. (March 2022.)
• “The Ruins of Home, Hearth, Kingdom, and Man in Breaking Bad: Ruins, Ruination, and Ruin Porn in Vince Gilligan’s Vision of ‘The ABQ,’” Southwest Popular and American Culture Association 43rd Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. (February 2022.)
• “The Birth of a Mobile Cinema: Protoautomobility and the Phantom Ride, 1897-1906,” XXVIII International Film and Media Studies Conference: “And Yet It Moves! On Cinema, Media, and Mobility,” Udine, Italy. Hybrid. (November 2021.)
• “Haunting the Layers: A Spectrology of the Cyberpunk City in Anime: From Angel’s Egg to Ghost in the Shell (And Back Again).” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada. (November 2021.)
• “The Starkweather Cycle: Constructing the Celebrity Killer Couple in 1950s Nebraska, the Badlands and Beyond…” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference. Online. (March 2021.)
• “The Spectacle of Society, the Society of Failure: Failure and the Authentication of Punk.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference. Los Angeles, California. (March 2010.)
• “Golden, Silver and Bronze: The Ages and Histories of Superhumans,” Southwestern Conference of Popular and American Culture Associations Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (February 2007.) 

Interviews and Talks

• Entry on “Rear-Projection” in The Audiovisual Lexicon for Media Analysis, eds. Vincent Longo and Matthew Solomon. Digital video. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan LSA Technology Services, 2023).
• “The History of Cyberpunk: Shaping Our Present/Future.” Guest lecture. University of Nebraska, Lincoln. (April 2022)
• “A Brief History of Animation Innovation.” Campus talk. University of Nebraska, Lincoln. (April 2022)
• “Introduction to Teaching Cyberpunk and Post-Humanity.” Job talk. Pepperdine University. Malibu, California. (January 2022)
• “William Friedkin: An Analysis of Film and Beyond.” Digital video. SCI-Arc Channel. Los Angeles, California. (2020)
• “Stanley Kubrick: Behind the Scenes with Jan Harlan and Michael Stock.” Digital video. SCI-Arc Channel. Los Angeles, California. (2017)
• Interview with Jeannine Oppewall, Oscar-winning production designer. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Pleasantville. Co-presented by LACMA. Los Angeles, California. (March 2020)
• Interview with Richard Kelly and James Duval. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Donnie Darko. Co-presented by LACMA. Los Angeles, California. (February 2020)
• Interview with James Ward Byrkit. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Coherence. Co-presented by LACMA. Los Angeles, California. (November 2019)
• Interview with Timothy Morton. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Living in the Future’s Past Co-presented by LACMA. Los Angeles, California. (October 2019)
• Interview with William Friedkin. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of To Live and Die in L.A. Co-presented by LACMA. Los Angeles, California. (April 2019)
• Interview with Penelope Spheeris. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Decline of Western Civilization, Part III. Co-presented by LACMA. Los Angeles, California. (March 2019)
• Interview with Jeannine Oppewall. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of LA Confidential. Co-presented by LACMA. Los Angeles, California. (February 2019)
• Interview with Allison Anders. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Mi Vida Loca. Los Angeles, California. (December 2018)
• Interview with Patti Podesta. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Memento. Los Angeles, California. (November 2018)
• Presented and introduced SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Grave of the Fireflies. Los Angeles, California. (October 2018)
• Interview with Patti Podesta. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Nowhere. Los Angeles, California. (April 2018)
• Presented and introduced SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Avatar. With special guest Rick Carter, production designer on the film. Los Angeles, California. (February 2018)
• Presented and introduced SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Aliens. With special guest Syd Mead, visual futurist on the film. Los Angeles, California. (December 2017)
• “Discussing the Intersections of Music, Memory, Architecture and David Bowie.” Master Class Interview with Philosopher Simon Critchley. SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, California. (November 2017)
• Interview with P.J. Letovsky, director of documentary about Andrei Tarkovsky, Time Within Time. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of Solaris. Los Angeles, California. (November 2017)
• “The Modern Filmmaker, the Music, the Short and Our Inner Fantasy,” Master Class co-taught with Jan Harlan, Executive Producer for Stanley Kubrick, on Film History, Film Production, Film Sound and Film Soundtracks. SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, California. (October 2017)
• Interview with Jan Harlan. SCI-Arc Cinema Series screening of The Shining. Los Angeles, California. (October 2017)
• “Punk Film and Punk Failure,” Faculty Talk. Moderated by Tim Ivision. SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, California. (March 2017)
• Interview with James Spooner. SCI-Arc screening of Afro-Punk (James Spooner, 2003). Los Angeles, California. (February 2017)