Daniel Herbert is an assistant professor in Screen Arts & Cultures, where he teaches classes on Adaptations, Apocalyptic Film and Television, The Contemporary Film Industry, Film History, and Film Theory. He earned his Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the University ofSouthern California.

Publications:

Journal Articles:

"Real Monster/Fake Auteur: Humor, Hollywood, and Herzog in Incident at Loch Ness .” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 26, no. 4 (2009), forthcoming.

"Sky's the Limit: Transnationality and Identity in Abre los Ojos and Vanilla Sky .” Film Quarterly 60, no. 1 (Fall 2006): 28-38.

"To Mock a Killingbird: Martin Arnold's Passage a l'Acte and the Dissymmetries of Cultural Exchange.” Millennium Film Journal 45/46 (Fall 2006): 93-101.

"Horrors Derived: The Thing as Adaptation, Remake, and Version.” Cinemascope: Independent Film Journal 2 (May-August 2005). www.cinemascope.it.

Book Chapters:

"Circulations: Technology and Discourse in The Ring Intertext,” in Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel. Edited by Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis.  ( Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2009), forthcoming.

"Trading Spaces: Transnational Dislocations in Insomnia / Insomnia and Ju-On / The Grudge ,” in Fear, Cultural Anxiety and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films Remade , edited by John Marmysz and Scott Lukas, ( Lanham , MD : Lexington Books, 2008).

"Days and Hours of the Apocalypse: 24 and the Nuclear Narrative,” in Reading 24 : TV Against the Clock , edited by Steven Peacock, ( London : I.B. Tauris, 2007), 85-95.

Interviews:

"Remaking Transnational Hollywood: An Interview with Roy Lee,” Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism 27, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 94-100.

Reviews:

Book review, Barry Keith Grant, ed., American Cinema of the 1960s: Themes and Variations , in Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27, no. 1 (2009), forthcoming.

Book review, Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant, eds., Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material , and Kevin Rozario, The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making
of Modern America , in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture , forthcoming.

DVD review, Schizopolis (1997, Steven Soderbergh), in Film International , forthcoming.

Book review, Alexander Horwath and Michael Loebenstein, eds., Peter Tscherkassky , in Film International 31, vol. 6, no. 1 (February 2008): 62-64.

Book review, Laura Mulvey, Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image , in Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies , (February 2008). www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk.

Book review, Constantine Verevis, Film Remakes, in Film International 24, vol. 4, no. 6 (December 2006): 70-72.

Book review, Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz, Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema , in Film International 17 (September 2005): 46-47.

DVD review, Sword of Doom (1965, Kihachi Okamoto), in Film International 16 (July 2005): 49-50.

Book review, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction , in Film-Philosophy 9, no. 26 (May 2005).

Book review, Erica Sheen and Annette Davison, eds., The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions, in Film International 14 (March 2005): 52-53.

Book review, Scott Simmon, The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half-Century, in Film International online (March 2005). www.filmint.nu.

Book review, Dan Harries ed., The New Media Book, in Film Quarterly 57, no. 4 (Summer 2004): 64-65.

Book review, Stan Brakhage, Essential Brakhage, ed. Bruce McPherson, in Film International 7 (January 2004): 49-50.

Book review, Catherine Fowler ed., The European Cinema Reader, in Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism 23, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 67-68.

Book review, Michael Wood, Belle de Jour, in Film Internationalonline (October 2003). www.filmint.nu.

Invited Lectures:

"A Brief History of Time Travel in Cinema,” delivered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Ann Arbor, Michigan . March 29, 2008.

"Trading Spaces, Spaces of Trade: The Dislocations of Contemporary Transnational Film Remakes,” delivered at the Department of English, University of Manitoba . Winnipeg , Manitoba. January 23, 2008.

Conference Presentations:

"Conversations: Where Adaptation Studies and Convergence Culture Collide,” to be presented at the Conference of the Midwest Popular Culture Association. Cincinnati , Ohio . Oct. 4, 2008.

"The Wire and Anti-Allegory Television Drama,” presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 7, 2008 .

"Agents of Change?  The Business of Transnational Remakes,” presented at the National Conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Boston , Massachusetts. April 6, 2007 .

"Remaking Film (and) History: The Transformational Cinema of Peter Tscherkassky,” presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago , Illinois . March 10, 2007.

"Rivals and Departures: The Films of Peter Tscherkassky as Transnational Remakes,” presented at the USC-UCLA Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference. University of California, Los Angeles. February 24, 2007 .

"Remaking Transnational Spaces: The Dislocations of Insomnia / Insomnia and Ju-On / The Grudge” presented at the Literature/Film Association Conference. Towson , Maryland . November 4, 2006.

"Lord of the Deals: New Zealand, Global Hollywood, and The Lord of the Rings ,” presented at the USC-UCLA Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference. University of Southern California . February 16, 2006.

"Going Nowhere, But Going Fast: Hard Rock ‘Life on the Road' Music Videos of the 1980s,” presented at the Conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 10, 2006.

"Real Monster/Fake Auteur: Humor, Hollywood, and Herzog in Incident at Loch Ness ,” presented at the conference “Werner Herzog's Cinema: Between the Visionary and the Documentary.” Goethe-Institut. London, UK. September 18, 2005.

"Regional Matters: The Construction of the State of New Mexico in The Rattlesnake: A Psychical Species,” presented at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, Missouri. November 5, 2004.

"The Herzog Malfunction: Problems in Documentary Auteurism,” presented at the Conference of the Midwest Popular Culture Association. Cleveland, Ohio. October 9, 2004 .

"To Mock a Killingbird: Martin Arnold's Passage a l'Acte, ” presented at the Conference of the Midwest Popular Culture Association. Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 17, 2003.

"No Rest for the Wicked: Insomnia as International Inter-text,” presented at the Conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 14, 2003.

Editorial Work:

Referee, Octopus. Spring 2004-Present.

Editorial Assistant, American Quarterly. Fall 2006-Spring 2007.