James Scott Forsyth
Professor Emeritus
Office: Centre For Film & Theatre, 238
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 22164
Email: sforsyth@yorku.ca
Professor Scott Forsyth has published on the politics of Hollywood films, Marxist cultural theory, third world film and film in Canada. He is a founding editor of the film studies journal CineAction. He is currently working on a research project on culture and Canadian Communists in the thirties and a manuscript on contemporary Hollywood, American imperialism and Cold War and post-Cold War ideologies. He is based in the Department of Film and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science. Research Interests: Marxist cultural and aesthetic theory; film history, media politics, film in Canada , the United States and the third world.
Degrees
PhD, York UniveristyMA, York University
BA, Trent University
Appointments
Faculty of Fine ArtsResearch Interests
Professor Scott Forsyth has published on the politics of Hollywood films, Marxist cultural theory, third world film and film in Canada. He is a founding editor of the film studies journal CineAction. He is currently working on a research project on culture and Canadian Communists in the thirties and a manuscript on contemporary Hollywood, American imperialism and Cold War and post-Cold War ideologies. He is based in the Department of Film and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science. Research Interests: Marxist cultural and aesthetic theory; film history, media politics, film in Canada , the United States and the third world.
Degrees
PhD, York UniveristyMA, York University
BA, Trent University