Faculty > Tricia Jenkins

 

Assistant Professor

 

 

Moudy South 183B

t.jenkins@tcu.edu

817.257.6740 

 

Education:

B.A. Ambassador University

M.A. Western Michigan University

Ph.D. Michigan State University

 

Fields of Expertise:

Television and culture, the CIA and Hollywood, the spy genre, feminist media criticism, and reality television.

 

 

Courses Taught:

TV, Culture and Society

Media, Politics and Social Values

Film and TV Genres

Media Analysis

History of Broadcasting

Intro to Film/TV Aesthetics

Reality TV

Senior Seminar

 

About Dr. Jenkins

Dr. Jenkins' latest research focuses on the ways the Central Intelligence Agency works with Hollywood in order to boost its public image. Her book, The CIA and Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television, will be released by the University of Texas Press in March 2012. Dr. Jenkins has also researched the ways that spy television series have worked to construct shifting messages about U.S. nationalism and gender, as well as the ways that gender and sexuality function in reality television series and teen movies. Her work has been published in The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television; Media, Culture and Society; The Journal of Popular Film and Television; The Journal of Popular Culture, and The Journal of American Culture, among others.

 

Dr. Jenkins also serves as the Book Review Editor for The Journal of Popular Culture.

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