Resume

• 2008

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  Social Sciences

  Academic Scholarship

  University of Chicago

  University of Chicago

• 2005

  English

  History

  National Student Exchange

  The University of Connecticut

• 2004

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  History

  Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholarship

  Indiana U. – Purdue U. Fort Wayne \nDean’s List

  Indiana U. – Purdue U. Fort Wayne \t\t\t\t\t \nOutstanding History Senior Award

  Department of History

  Indiana U. – Purdue U. Fort Wayne \nSharon Alt Piepenbrink Award

  Department of History

  Indiana U. – Purdue U. Fort Wayne \n

  Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne

• Research

  Invoicing

  Social Media

  Customer Service

  Management

  Event Planning

  History

  Public Speaking

  Leadership

  Editing

  Mind

  Music

  and Motion Pictures: The Making and Remaking of the Sensuous Consumer

  Using Bourdieu’s explanation of the field of cultural production and Lipartito’s interpretation of practice theory as it relates to culture and business

  the field of cultural production and the field of business overlap

  as do the economies of real and symbolic goods. The historians tasked with explaining the economic

  social

  and cultural changes wrought by modernity at the turn of the twentieth century have examined cultural production and the economy and concluded that emerging technologies facilitated new mass culture media

  a primary aim of which was to educate the audience about the modern world. Influenced by the advancements in technology during the Second Industrial Revolution

  these cultural producers-whom Bourdieu would call artists and writers and actors and filmmakers

  a group I would expand to include businesspeople and advertisers and salespeople-helped to usher in a new culture and a new capitalism in which they placated the fears and played on the senses of consumers to provide and sell new experiences and products. In short

  consumerism became more integrated into Americans’ daily lives in the twentieth century

  and capitalism became more ingrained in culture. I contend that consumers are as important agents as producers in the ongoing transformation and redefinition of capitalism. As such

  I explore the twentieth-century sensuous consumer by reviewing four texts that study industries within the field of cultural production

  with a focus on the large-scale production of middlebrow art

  popular entertainment

  and emergent mass media

  as well as what Lipartito describes as the field of business

  to better appreciate the interrelationships among art

  commerce

  capitalism

  democracy

  and modernism. Each work details the importance of consumer senses in the making of modernity

  and

  taken together

  they incorporate the rise of motion pictures

  amusement parks

  and radio into new fields that affect our bodies and encourage us to consume.

  Mind

  Music

  and Motion Pictures: The Making and Remaking of the Sensuous Consumer

  Review of \"From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago

  \" by Rachel Weber

  Film review of \"Love Between the Covers

  \" directed by Laurie Kahn

  \"Henry George\" and \"Horace Greeley\" Entries

  In this joint evaluation of two publications about assorted film literature

  bookended by the world wars and exploring the impact of writers on a new form of mass culture

  I am interested by what means journalists and critics used the media to educate their readership about how to watch motion pictures and in what way their pieces informed aesthetic

  endorsed ideology

  and promoted show business. The readers of the “Film Girls” of the mid-1910s or of film critic James Agee a generation later were not passive consumers but were instead active participants helping to shape and secure the permanency of what Bordwell and Abel have modestly labeled “American Film Culture” and all of its concomitant ingredients—studios

  movie theaters

  newsstands

  and spectators. By reviewing the texts

  I aim to highlight that the movie industry and its surrounding culture have been resilient and remain robust

  which to no small degree is due to the proliferation of film literature from both professionals as well as online amateur critics

  the latter having naturally evolved from the American film culture as described in the 1910s and 1940s. \n \n

  In Print and On Screen: Film Columns

  Criticism

  and Culture in Early Hollywood

  “The Ghost and the Darkness: The One Movie Fan Who Never Buys a Ticket\"

  White Saviors and Magical Negroes are well-established cinematic archetypes that have been identified

  analyzed

  and subsequently labeled as unadvisable storytelling tropes due to their innate cultural arrogance and racially offensive undertones. The following paper classifies a related cinematic phenomenon the author calls the White Fanatic. By analyzing three recent films in which white lead characters suffer existential crises and demand relief from Magical Natives

  the paper makes the case that the White Fanatic represents a colonial mindset shared by filmmakers who continue to emphasize the experience of European colonizers at the expense of Indigenous peoples.The three films included in this analysis are Zama (2017)

  directed by Lucrecia Martel; The Lost City of Z (2016)

  directed by James Gray; and Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

  directed by Ciro Guerra. The author concludes that such stories are more sensitive to Native cultures than previously accepted versions of the White Savior. However

  the essay calls for greater Indigenous representation that is uncorrupted by fanatical white protagonists.

  Fear and Loathing in the Americas: White Fanatics and the Cinematic Colonial Mindset

  Organizer and Host. Films Screened with Lectures: Paths of Glory (1957); Come and See (1985); The Blue Kite (1993); No (2012); Waltz with Bashir (2008); The Battle of Algiers (1966)

  Ringle

  Carter

  Ringle

  Warsaw Community Schools

  Carroll High School

  Purdue University Fort Wayne

  Goodrich Quality Theaters

  Inc.

  University of Chicago

  Northwest Allen County Schools

  Fort Wayne

  IN

  Courses taught: U.S. History; World History

  High School Social Studies Teacher

  Carroll High School

  Huntington

  IN

  •Awarded “Outstanding Assistant Manager” for the company in 2012 \n•Operated and maintained 35mm film projectors and oversaw the transition to digital projection systems; ran and maintained professional digital projectors\n•Recruited

  trained

  and evaluated over 50 staff members on company policy

  business applications

  and cinema maintenance

  Assistant Manager

  Goodrich Quality Theaters

  Inc.

  Film Studies Center

  University of Chicago

  Chicago IL

  •Maintained analog and digital video equipment and supported visitors with their use\n•Cataloged newly acquired videos and updated the library database

  Video Attendant

  University of Chicago

  Warsaw

  IN

  Courses taught: U.S. History; World History

  High School Social Studies Teacher

  Warsaw Community Schools

  Fort Wayne

  IN

  Courses taught: U.S. History to 1877; U.S. History since 1877; World in the Twentieth Century

  Limited-Term Lecturer

  Department of History

  Purdue University Fort Wayne