Bruce Hutchinson
Mass Communications
Director Graduate Studies, Digital Filmmaking Program
Assistant Professor of Digital Filmmaking
office: SRH 216E
phone: 501-450-3419
email: bruceh@uca.edu
teaching specialties: Screenwriting,
Narrative Theory, Cognitive Film Theory, Directing, Cinema History,
Emerging Technologies
PhD., Film Studies, The University
of Kansas, Lawrence (1998)
M.A., Film Studies, The University of Kansas, Lawrence (1995)
B.A., Communication, The American University (1993)
B.A., Literature, The American University (1993)
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Bruce is the Director of Graduate Studies for the
Digital Filmmaking
Program and an Assistant Professor of Digital Filmmaking.
He has
taught a wide range of course including Script Analysis,
Screenwriting,
Cinema History, Digital Film I, Digital Film II,
Digital Film III, Topics in
Digital Filmmaking, and Seminar in Mass Communication.
He helped
start both the undergraduate and graduate Digital
Filmmaking
programs. Bruce’s research interests include
narrative structure of the
classical Hollywood film and cognitive approaches
to character and
narrative. He has taught at UCA since 2002.
Publications
“Understanding Character Motivation: A Process
Oriented Approach to
Realism.” Narration and Spectatorship in Moving
Images. Ed.
Joseph Anderson and Barbara Fisher Anderson. Cambridge:
Cambridge Scholars Press, Forthcoming (January 2008).
“Report on the Center for Cognitive Studies
of the Moving Image 2006
Conference” CILECT News. Winter 2006.
“An
Attentional Model of Film Viewing.” Journal
of Moving Image
Studies. Vol 2 (2003/2004).
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“ Caretaker, The.”; “Children’s
Hour, The.”; and “Women, The.”
Video Versions: Film Adaptations of Plays on Video. Ed.
Thomas
Erskine and James M. Welsh. Westport, CT: Greewood Press,
2000.
With James M. Welsh “A Delicate Balance.” Cinema
of Tony
Richardson: Essays and Interviews. Ed. James M. Welsh
and
John C. Tibbetts. Albany, NY: State University of New
York
Press, 1999.
“Apu Triolgy, The”; “Man Who Fell to
Earth, The”; “Mosquito Coast,
The”; and “Room with a View, A.” Encyclopedia
of Novels Into
Film. Ed. John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh. New York:
Facts on File, 1998.
Paper Presentations
“The Filmmaking MFA in the Creative Economy” panel
presentation at
the University Film and Video Association Annual Conference,
Orange,
CA, August, 2006.
“Scene Structure in the Hollywood Arch Plot” paper
presented at the
University Film and Video Association Annual Conference,
Orange, CA,
August, 2006.
“Understanding Character Motivation: A Process
Oriented Approach to
Realism” paper presented at “Narration and
Spectatorship in Moving
Images” the 5th International Conference of the
Center for Cognitive
Studies of the Moving Image Conference, Berlin, Germany,
July, 2006.
“Mr. Maslow, Meet Anderson: Understanding Character
Goals in the
Hollywood Film” paper presented at the University
Film and Video
Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, August 2005.
Organizations
Member, University Film and Video Association (UFVA),
2001-present
Member, Independent Film Project (IFP), 2006-present
Member, Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
(AIVF),
2006
Fellow, Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving
Image, 2006-
present
Member, Center for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image,
1998-
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