John Bruns
Professor

Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 3-5pm (online via Zoom)
Phone: 843.953.4957
E-mail: brunsj@cofc.edu
Education
Ph.D., Film, Literature & Culture, University of Southern California
M.A., English, University of Southern California
B.A., Film, Television & Theater/English, University of Notre Dame
Research Interests
- Film history, theory, criticism
- Cultural studies
- Literary theory
- Comedy
- Feminist theory
Courses Taught
ENGL 351: Studies in American Film
ENGL 390: Alfred Hitchcock
ENGL 212: Cinema: History and Criticism
ENGL 390: Studies in Film
Publications
"The Dark Comedy Side of Genius." Review essay. Hitchcock Annual 24, Columbia University Press, 2021, pp. 80-105.
"Under Capricorn: Head, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes." Under Capricorn: 70 Years On. Conference Proceedings, Sep. 5-6, 2019, King's College, London, edited by Stéphane Duckett and Charles Barr, Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, Universities of Warwick, Reading, and Oxford, 2021.
Hitchcock's People, Places, and Things , Northwestern University Press, 2019
"Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success." Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances, Vol. 1: America. Ed. Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
"Teaching Inception." The Cine-Files: A Scholarly Journal of Cinema Studies 9 (Winter 2015). Ed. Tracy Cox-Stanton.
"'The Proper Geography': Hitchcock's Adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 'The Birds.'" Hitchcock and Adaptation: On the Page and Screen. Ed. Mark Osteen Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Loopholes: Reading Comically. With a New Introduction by the Author. New York, NY: Routledge, 2013.
"Hitchcock's Newspaper: a Thing in the Crowd." Hitchcock Annual: Volume 18. Ed. Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Allen. New York: Columbia U. Press, 2013.
"The Map is Not the Country: Cartography in Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men." Film Criticism. Winter 2011. 36:2.
"The Polyphonic Film." New Review of Film and Television Studies. August 2008. 6:2. 189-212