Mass Communication
and Theatre
Dr. Bruce Hutchinson
Director Graduate Studies of Digital Filmmaking, Associate Professor of Digital Filmmaking
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)
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.
“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). <http://www.avila.edu/departments/journal/fall03/toc.htm>
“ 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- present