S2 - E2 - Cam Chat with Fareed Ben-Youssef - a podcast by Cam Hunters

This week we are grateful to host our lovely friend and colleague Dr. Fareed Ben-Youssef. Fareed gives a brief introduction to his new bookNo Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema (SUNY Press, July 2022). If you are a fan of DC, Batman, and surveillance politics, this is the episode for you!

More information can be found at our website camhunters.org.Dr. Fareed Ben-Youssef is an Assistant Professor in Film&Media Studies at Texas Tech University. He earned his PhD in Film and Media from the University of California, Berkeley. His book, No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema (SUNY Press, July 2022), reveals genre cinema's multivalent purpose: to normalize state violence and also to critique it. His work has appeared in journals like The Journal of Popular Culture, Japanese Language and Literature, and Southwestern American Literature. As part of his efforts to teach outside the classroom, Ben-Youssef has also organized myriad university film series and hosted master classes with award-winning directors such as Ari Folman and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.

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