Bradley J Schauer

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Schauer, B. J. (2016). Escape Velocity: American Science Fiction Film, 1950-1982.

Chapters

• Schauer, B. J. (2020). Contemporary Kaiju Cinema. In Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas.
• Schauer, B. J. (2021). Stocking the Stables: Universal-International’s Talent Development Program, 1949-1956. In Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited.
• Schauer, B. J., & Minett, M. (2017). Reforming the "Justice" System: Marvel's Avengers and the Transformation of the All-Star Team Book. In Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe(pp 39-65). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
• Schauer, B. J. (2014). The Auteur Renaissance, 1968-1980. In Behind the Silver Screen: Cinematography.

Journals/Publications

• Schauer, B. J. (2018). First Run and Cut-Rate: Universal-International and the Postwar Programmer. Quarterly Review of Film & VIdeo, 35(4), 349-371.
• Schauer, B. J. (2015). “The Greatest Exploitation Special Ever”: Destination Moon and Postwar Independent Distribution. Film History, 27(1), 1-28.
• Schauer, B. J. (2012). The Warner Archive and DVD Collecting in the New Home Video Market. The Velvet Light Trap No. 70, 35-48.
• Schauer, B. J. (2010). A Review of “Postwar Hollywood: 1946–1962”. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 27(4), 314-318. doi:10.1080/10509200802350232
• Schauer, B. J. (2009). Dimension Films and the Exploitation Tradition in Contemporary Hollywood. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 26(5), 393-405. doi:10.1080/10509200802165275
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  In February 2005 it was confirmed that the acrimonious, twelve year relationship between the Walt Disney Company and Miramax Films founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein was coming to an end. Disney wou...
• Schauer, B. J. (2007). CRITICS, CLONES AND NARRATIVE IN THE FRANCHISE BLOCKBUSTER. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 5(2), 191-210. doi:10.1080/17400300701432894
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  In opposition to the claims of many cinema scholars and critics, this paper argues that the classical narrative remains largely intact in contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, if in a somewhat different form. A close analysis of the narrative of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) demonstrates how closely that film, an exemplar of ‘post‐classical Hollywood’, fits the precepts of the unified, classical text. However, the film was much more popular with fan audiences than with the mass public. These opposed responses call attention to the film's status as a failed ‘franchise blockbuster’—a big‐budget genre epic that is constructed to appeal to both popular and fan audiences. One of the most important recent narrative developments in Hollywood, the franchise blockbuster, works within a network of transmedia texts, but should also stand alone as an autonomous narrative. While many critics are prevented by the perceived larger cultural significance of the franchise blockbuster from attempting a seri...

Presentations

• Schauer, B. J. (2023, April). “This…Is the Inner Sanctum”: Lon Chaney, Jr. and the Perils of B-Series Stardom". Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. Denver, CO.
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  Presentation about Lon Chaney Jr's stardom and the Universal Studios B-movie series The Inner Sanctum.
• Schauer, B. J. (2022, April). A24 and Indie Branding: Marketing Millennial Cinephilia. Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference. Online.
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  Paper about the independent film studio A24.
• Schauer, B. J. (2019, March). No Grand Thesis: Strategic Ambiguity and Peter Berg's 'Docbuster' Trilogy. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Seattle, WA.
• Schauer, B. J. (2018, May). Stocking the Stables: Universal-International’s Talent Development Program, 1949-1956. Classical Hollywood Studies in the 21st Century conference. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.
• Schauer, B. J. (2018, October 11). Kubrick’s Ultimate Trip: The Impact of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Public Presentation. Oxford College at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Schauer, B. J. (2017, 2017-03-22). The Secret Weapon of the ‘Major Minor’: Universal-International and the Postwar Programmer. Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. Chicago, IL.
• Schauer, B. J. (2016, April). "From Innovation to Convention to Transgeneric Mode: Approaches to Action Film Cinematography, 1986-1996". Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Atlanta, GA.
• Schauer, B. J. (2015, March). Interrogating “Vulgar Auteurism”: Radical Formalism and Gendered Discourse in Online Film Criticism. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Montreal, Quebec.
• Schauer, B. J. (2015, March). Workshop: New Approaches to Teaching Genres. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Montreal, Quebec.
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• Schauer, B. J. (2015, November). Howard the Duck: Camp and the Cult Blockbuster. Film and History Conference. Madison, WI.
• Schauer, B. J. (2014, March). “Man of Steel, God of War: Christian Audiences and the Secular Action Film". Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Seattle, WA.
• Schauer, B. J. (2012, Spring). Uwe Boll's AUSCHWITZ and the Limits of Social Critique in Exploitation Cinema. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Boston, MA.
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• Schauer, B. J. (2012, Spring). Wheels within Wheels: Narrative Complexity and Serial Storytelling in the Work of Jonathan Hickman. Comics Studies Conference. Chicago, IL.
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• Schauer, B. J. (2011, Spring). Presold Obscurity: JONAH HEX and Adaptation. Comic Studies Conference. Chicago, IL.
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• Schauer, B. J. (2011, Spring). The Warner Archive: Hollywood History and the Contemporary Home Video Industry. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. San Antonio, TX.
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• Schauer, B. J. (2010, Spring). Good Old Cowboy Fun: Warhol and the Western. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Los Angeles, CA.
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• Schauer, B. J. (2010, Summer). Bloodsport: ROLLERBALL and Violence in 1970s Hollywood. On Archives! conference. Madison, WI.
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Reviews

• Schauer, B. J. (2010. Drew Casper's Postwar Hollywood. Quarterly Review of Film & Video.

Others

• Schauer, B. J. (2015, May). David Letterman: So Long to Our TV Pal. Antenna.
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  Blog post discussing David Letterman's career in light of shifts in the way audiences access late night television in the digital age.
• Schauer, B. J. (2015, September). DC Comics' Halfhearted Appeal to an Alternate Readership. Antenna.
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  Discussion of DC Comics' efforts to relaunch certain books with an eye toward diversity, and a critique of their unwillingness to support these books sufficiently.
• Schauer, B. J. (2014, August). “The Guardians of Good Taste: Critics and the ‘Fanboy’ Menace.". Antenna blog. http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/08/05/the-guardians-of-good-taste-critics-and-the-fanboy-menace/

Creative Works

• Premiere Week 2010 - CBS; September 2010; Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture; Industrial analysis of CBS's HAWAII FIVE O and (BLEEP) MY DAD SAYS.
• Conan and the Warm Embrace of Narrowcasting; November 2010; Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture; Industrial analysis of TBS show CONAN.
• Eden Log; Intellect Ltd.; June 2012; Directory of World Cinema: France; Short analytical essay on Eden Log (2007) published in upcoming encyclopedia of French cinema, edited by Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael.
• Et mourir de plaisir; Intellect Ltd.; June 2012; Directory of World Cinema: France; Short analytical essay on Et mourir de plaisir (Blood and Roses) (1960) published in upcoming encyclopedia of French cinema, edited by Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael.
• DC Comics Goes All In; June 2011; Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture; Industrial analysis of DC Comics' 2011 publishing strategies.
• Charlie Chan and Contemporary B-Movie Fandom; January 2011; Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture; Review of Professor Yunte Huang's book Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (2010).