Greg Metcalf

Greg Metcalf has been teaching Film and Twentieth Century Art for the Department of Art History and Archeology since the last millennium. He has a B.A. in Art/East Asian Studies/Political Science (St. Olaf), an M.F.A. in Painting and Graphics (Bowling Green) and a Ph.D. in Art and Culture (UMCP).

Probably shaped by early education in British and American schools in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Dr. Metcalf’s research grows out of looking at cultural productions from slightly “wrong” perspectives. The result is a cross-cultural and cross-medial approach to artistic production: paintings considered as if they were film, television considered as if it were literature, film and music considered from art historical perspectives, commercial and fine art considered as each other.

In addition to his book on "binge tv" -- The DVD Novel: How The Way We Watch Television Changed the Television (Praeger: 2012), Metcalf has published and lectured on Andy Warhol, Mary Cassatt, Walt Disney's reflections and shaping of American culture, the care and feeding of paratextual character across media, Bob Dylan and cover recordings, F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, the hysterical male in American Literature, Mark Twain's radical critique of American values in Huckleberry Finn, the influence images of the American West on Science Fiction Illustration, and narrative adaptation across media.. His most recent piece is on the cynical success of Mel Gibson's "Performative Penance" instead of actual contrition, and Metcalf continues to work on a cinematic reinterpretation of the themes and imagery of Mary Cassatt, and the collapse of narrative in film. He also creates ritual objects for contemporary American culture. His artwork has been exhibited and collected in Europe, Asia and the Americas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYV8Q5WYPk8