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Assistant Professor
Office Location(s): 6413 North Quad Phone: 734.647.3363 danherb@umich.edu View Curriculum Vitae
Daniel Herbert is a scholar of media culture with particular interests in media industries, geography, and cultural identities. His dissertation explored cinematic globalization through the lens of Hollywood remakes of foreign films. His current book project examines the ways that video rental stores altered movie culture from the 1970s through the 2000s. Drawing from archival research and fieldwork conducted from 2008-2012, this book provides a critical reflection upon the brick-and-mortar video industry at the moment of its disappearance. More than a simple story of an industrial rise and fall, however, this work conveys the importance of video stores to the many people who shopped and worked inside them.
Herbert was appointed as a visiting lecturer at the University of Michigan in 2007 and became a member of the regular faculty in 2008. Prior to that, he worked for several years as a clerk at the best video store in Albuquerque, NM, Alphaville Video, where he watched thousands of foreign and American independent films. He then attained his MA and PhD in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California. He likes to think that his work at the video store was as important to his education as his graduate studies.
SAC 325: New Line and New Hollywood Cinema SAC 455: The Contemporary Film Industry SAC 331: Apocalyptic Film and Television SAC 366: Adaptations
