Cortland Rankin
Cortland Rankin is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University. His primary areas of research include the relationship between cinema and American urbanism and representations of war and militarism in film and television. His book Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York (Routledge, 2023) examines cinematic imaginaries of New York City’s postindustrial turn from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s across a diverse spectrum of mainstream, independent, documentary, and experimental films. His work has also appeared in the Journal of Popular Film & Television, NECSUS, European Journal of Media Studies, Hollywood Remembrance and American War (Routledge, 2020) edited by Andrew Rayment and Paul Nadasdy, and Screening American Independent Film (Routledge, 2023) edited by Justin Wyatt and Wyatt Phillips.
