Ina Rae Hark

Professor

Office: 305 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2122
hark@sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1975

Specialization Areas

• Film

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 475 History of Cinema II
• ENGL 414 English Drama Since 1660
• ENGL/FILM 566 Science Fiction
• FILM 240 Intro to Film Studies

See Film Studies Program for more information on FILM courses.

Current Research Project(s)

A book project titled, Infinite Combinations: the Star Trek Series and Science Fiction Television

Publications

Books

Edward Lear. Twayne Eng;lish Authors Series 334. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982.

Ed. (with Steve Cohan), Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in Hollywood Film. London: Routledge, 1993.

associate ed. and author of film and drama entries. Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture: American Culture after World War II. Detroit: Gale, 1994.

Ed. (with Steven Cohan). The Road Movie Book. London: Routledge, 1997.

Ed. Exhibition, the Film Reader. London: Routledge, 2002.

Book Chapters and Refereed Articles

"'Today is the Longest Day of My Life': 24 as Mirror Narrative of 9/11" in Film and Television After 9/11, ed. Wheeler Winston Dixon (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 2004): 121-141.

"Crazy Like a Prof: Mad Science and The Transgressions of the Rational," Bad: Evil on Screen, ed. Murray Pomerance (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004): 301-14.

'Moviegoing, 'Homeleaving, and the Problematic Girl Protagonist of the The Wizard of Oz," in Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood ed. Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance 9Detroit: Wayne State U Press, 2002): 25.38.

"Tortured Masculinity: Gendering Jesus in The Robe," Quarterly Review of FIlm and Television, 18, 2 (2001): 117-28.

"'Daddy, Where's the FBI Warning?': Constructing the Video Spectator," in Key Frames, ed. Matthew TInkcom and Amy Villarejo (London: Routledge, 2001): 72-81.

"Blackfaced Rednecks: the Problem of Backcountry Whites as Victims in John Sayles's Matewan," in Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature and Film, ed. William B Thesing (Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina Press, 2000): 255-66.

''We Might Even Get in the Newsreels': The Press and Democracy in Hitchcock's World War II Anti-Fascist Films," in Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays, ed. Richard Allen and Sam Ishii Gonzalez (London: BFI, 1999) 333-47.

"The Wrath of the Original Cast: Translating Embodied Television Characters to Other Media," in Adaptions, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan (London: Routledge, 1999): 172-83.