EDUCATION

University of British Columbia – Vancouver, BC – 2006-2009

  • Master of Arts in Film Studies.
  • Awarded the level of Distinction on thesis entitled “The Museum: Textworks, Cultural Economy, and Polytextual Dispersion” [abstract and pdf].
  • Interdisciplinary combination of media studies, political economy and critical theory applied to the film, television, internet and popular music industries.
  • Editor-in-Chief of Cinephile, the University of British Columbia’s Film Journal.
  • Highest-rated Teaching Assistant in department, chosen by TAG (Teaching & Academic Growth) to lead workshops for incoming teaching assistants.

University of Western Ontario – London, ON – 2001-2006

BOOKS

deWaard, Andrew and R. Colin Tait. The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh. Forthcoming (Wallflower Press).

EDITED COLLECTIONS

deWaard, Andrew. “The Blend of History: The Good German’s Intertextual Past and Presence.” The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh. Forthcoming (University Press of Kentucky). Eds. Steven M. Sanders and R. Barton Palmer.

deWaard, Andrew.  “The Hood Is Where the Heart Is: Melodrama, Habitus, and the Hood Film.”  Habitus of the ’Hood.  Edited Collection.  Forthcoming.

deWaard, Andrew. “Joints and Jams: Spike Lee as Sellebrity Auteur.” Fight the Power!: The Spike Lee Reader. Eds. Janice D. Hamlet and Robin R. Means Coleman. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. [abstract] [full text pdf] [world cat] [publisher's website] [amazon]

deWaard, Andrew. “It’s Up To You… No Really, It’s Up to You: Radiohead, Big Music, and the Future of the Record Industry.” The Business of Entertainment: Popular Music. Ed. Robert C. Sickels. Westport, Conn: Praeger Publishers, 2008. [abstract] [full text pdf] [world cat] [publisher's website] [amazon]

JOURNAL ARTICLES

deWaard, Andrew. “The Geography of Melodrama, The Melodrama of Geography: The ‘Hood Film’s Spatial Pathos.” Cinephile 4.1 (2008).

deWaard, Andrew. “The Global Social Problem Film.” Cinephile 3.1 (2007).

CONFERENCES

2008.  “The Intertextual Museum (and Gift Shop): Towards a Cultural Economy of Intermediality,” Paper presented for the Film Studies Association of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

2008.  “The Intertextual Museum: V for Vendetta, Children of Men, and post-apocalyptic intermediality,” Paper presented at Interculturality and Intermediality: an encounter of cultures, cinema and media.  Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

2007.   “A Deleuzian Re-Imagining of the (Global) Social Problem Film,” Paper presented for the Film Studies Association of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.  University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.

2007.  “The Global Social Problem Film,” Paper presented at Shifts, Ruptures, and Dissonances: Liminal Spaces of the Social.  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

2006.  Advanced Oral History Summer Institute.  University of California, Berkeley, CA.

AWARDS