Ned Schantz
cultural studies; film; narrative theory; genre theory; feminism; media and technology; the theory of hospitality; Hitchcock; situation; immersive/interactive theatre; and alternate reality games.
M.A., Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
B.A. (Stanford)
Books
Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature (Oxford UP, 2008)
Book Chapters
Co-authored with Jay Shea: “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Begins.” In American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper. Eds. Kris Woofter and Will Dodson. Austin: U of Texas P, 2021.
“The Hospitality of Scottie Ferguson in Vertigo.” In Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now. Eds. Sydney Gottlieb and Donal Martin. John Libbey Publishing, 2021.
Articles
Co-authored with Marcie Frank and Kevin Pask: “Situation: a Narrative Concept.” In Critical Inquiry 50:4 (Summer 2024), 659-676.
"Hospitality and the Scene of Contract in Dial M for Murder." In Hitchcock Annual 21 (2017): 40-70.
"Teaching The Bridge." In The Cine-Files (December 2015): online.
“Surprised by La Jetée.” In Senses of Cinema 76 (September 2015).
"Melodramatic Reenactment and the Ghosts of Grizzly Man." In Criticism Volume 55, Number 4 (Fall 2013).
"Hospitality and the Unsettled Viewer: Hitchcock's Shadow Scenes." In Camera Obscura 25 (1 73): 1-27 (2010).
"Telephonic Film." In Film Quarterly (Summer 2003) 23-35.
"Jamesian Gossip and the Seductive Politics of Interest." In The Henry James Review (Winter 2001) 10-23.
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)