Profile

Biography

Dr. Tanya Goldman is assistant professor of film in the Department of Communication, Media, Journalism and Film.

Details

Education

• PhD, Cinema Studies, 2022, New York University
• MA, History, 2010, Tulane University
• BA, Communication, Film Studies, History, 2009, Tulane University, summa cum laude

Teaching

• MED 274 Introduction to Film
• MED 374 History of Film I
• MED 375 History of Film II
• MED 412 Documentary Storytelling
• MED 470 Special Topics in Film
• MED 570 Film Theory

Professional experience

Select Publications

Journal Articles

•  “Entertainment Encircling the World: Movies at War, Free Films, and the U.S. Military’s 16mm Distribution Infrastructure,” The Moving Image (forthcoming)

• “‘What’s In a Name?:’ A Forum on the Past, Present, and Potential Futures of Nontheatrical Media Studies,” Jump Cut 62 (2024) (co-authored with Madison Brown), web.

•  “The Distribution Front: Spain in Flames, Partisan Protest, and the Limits of Radical Documentary,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 41.2 (2021): 270-91.

• “Brandon Films’ World Film Festival Brochure, 1962,” Film History 29.4 (Winter 2017): 131-56.

Book Chapters

•  “A ‘Lusty Infant’ Comes of Age: The Allied Non-Theatrical Film Association and the Growth of the 16mm Sector,” 16mm at 100: The Remaking of Twentieth-Century Cinema, eds. Gregory A. Waller and Haidee Wasson, Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

•  “Men and Dust, Labor Advocacy, and Alternative Film Distribution, 1939-1942,” in InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Global Media Activism Reader, eds. Chris Robé and Stephen Charbonneau, Indiana University Press (2020): 25-47.

•  “‘Regardless of Race, Color, or Creed:’ Filming the Henry Street Settlement Visiting Nurse Service, 1924-1933,” in Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film, eds. Marsha Gordon and Allyson Nadia Field, Duke University Press (2019): 51-70.

Online Writing

• “Revisiting Early Programming at Cinema 16,” Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research blog, March 17, 2025, web.

•  “Reconstructing the Postwar U.S. Film Society Movement,” Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater blog, February 15, 2025, web.

• “Lionel Rogosin, Between Empathy and Outrage,” Criterion Currents, October 24, 2024, web.

• “Toward an Eclectic Film History Survey,” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies’ Teaching Media, 2021, web.

Professional Service

•  Editorial Board

• Film Matters

• The Moving Image

• Society for Cinema and Media Studies

• Media Archives Standing Committee

•  Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group Steering Committee

• Co-chair of Precarious Labor Organization