Charles R. Acland

About

Charles Reid Acland is a professor and was the Department Chairperson in the Communications Studies Department at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 2018 until June 1, 2020. His research interests include: popular culture, media studies, cultural history and cultural theory. He is the Editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and co-editor of Useful Cinema, Residual Media, and Harold Innis in the New Century. He is also the author of three books: Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence, Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture and Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of "Youth in Crisis,".