William Whittington, Ph.D.

Assistant Chair, Critical Studies

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bwhittington@cinema.usc.edu
LUC 413
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William Whittington teaches courses in film and television history, genre studies, digital culture, audio culture, adaptation, and gender and sexuality in film, television and new media.

Between 1993-1997, he served as the curator of the USC Warner Bros. Archives, assisting with research for various film restorations, documentaries, music scores and books. He has also worked as an editor for Time Warner Trade Publishing and is currently the managing editor of Spectator, the USC Critical Studies Journal of Film and Television Criticism.

Whittington's scholarly work includes articles and interviews on genre, film and television sound, digital culture and technology.  He is the author of Sound Design and Science Fiction from University of Texas Press, 2007.