Julie Assouly - Visiting Research Fellow 2025
Research
Research themes
- US cinema
- US working class
- US press illustration
- Philadelphia newspapers
- Intermediality
Research Supervision:
- US film studies, TV series
- US politics and history as related to the media (XX-XXI)
- Social history in popular culture
Current Project
- The Philadelphia Illustrator-Reporters And the Representation of the Working Class: From the Charcoal Club to the Ashcan School (1890s-1920)
- The Representation of Pennsylvania’s Working Class in the Visual Arts
- Le révisionnisme historique à l’écran
Bio
Education and Academic Positions:
- 2023 HDR English language studies, université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, « Le cinéma d’auteur états-unien au prisme de la traversée : pour une approche « holistique » de l’analyse des films »
- 2010 PhD English language studies, université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, « Miroirs et mirages de l’Amérique : Le cinéma des frères Coen de 1984 à 2007 »
- 2012- Associate professor of American studies, Université d’Artois
Administrative Responsibilities:
- Co-director of the research team Praxis and Aesthetics of the Arts (université d’Artois)
- Member of the Academic council, université d’Artois
Media
Publications
Articles
Ouvrages
- Wes Anderson, Cinéaste Transatlantique (CNRS, 2024)
- Marianne Kac-Vergne and Julie Assouly (eds), From the Margins to the Mainstream: Women in Film and Television (Bloomsbury, 2022)
- Julie Assouly and Kevin Dwyer (eds), La Culture italo-américaine à l’écran (Artois Presse Université, 2021)
Articles
- « Spiraling down the Smelting Pot. Economic Determinism and the Working-Class Hero in The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978) and Out of the Furnace (Cooper, 2013) », The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Dec. 2023.
- « Spielberg meets Rockwell: Nostalgia and the Celebration of America’s Heroic Past” in David Roche (dir.), Steven Spielberg. Hollywood Wunderkind and Humanist, Montpellier, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2018.