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About Charles R. Acland
- Charles Reid Acland (born October 4, 1963) is a Professor and Research Chair in Communications Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- His fields of research include Popular Culture, Media Studies and Cultural History and Theory.
- He is the Editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and co-editor of Useful Cinema (Duke University Press, 2011), Residual Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), and Harold Innis in the New Century (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999).
- He is the author of three books: Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence (Duke University Press, 2012), Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture (Duke University Press, 2003) and Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of "Youth in Crisis," (Westview Press, 1995).
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