Travis Merchant-Knudsen
Cinema, Film Studies, Media Studies, Ambience, Animation
Travis Richard Merchant-Knudsen (they/she) is a Ph.D. student at NCSU in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, the Image Editor for Film International, and an adjunct instructor at Wake Technical Community College. Their writings have been published in Film Matters, Film International, Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, Cultural Intertexts, and more. Additionally, they have presented at the Visions Film Festival and Conference, the Society for Animation Studies Conference, The Carolina Rhetoric Conference, and others on topics surrounding the interdisciplinary nature of media and literature. Their interests in film and media studies are on intermedia experiences and scholarship, phenomenology, animation, sound design and music, and narratives within spectacular media environments. In addition to scholarly pursuits, Travis is an independent filmmaker and musician. For a complete view of their works, presentations, and creative endeavors, visit their personal website.
Works (9)
Updated: October 2nd, 2024 05:05
2022 journal article
Parting Words: Viewing films one image at a time; or, remembering Hannah Frank (1984–2017)
Film International.
Source: ORCID
Added: October 1, 2024
2021 journal article
Painting a Collaborative Gaze
Film International.
Source: ORCID
Added: October 1, 2024
2021 journal article
“Filmed Love Letters: The Dialogism and Intertextuality of Lost in Translation and her”
Cultural Intertexts. https://b00e8ea91c.clvaw-cdnwnd.com/4fb470e8cbb34a32a0dc1701f8d7322d/200000421-6722e67231/Cultural%20Intertexts%202021%20-%20FINAL2.pdf
Source: ORCID
Added: October 1, 2024
2020 journal article
Uncomfortable Laughter: Revisiting Funny Games (1997) on Criterion
Film International, 18(1), 121–125.
Source: ORCID
Added: October 1, 2024
2020 journal article
“Lost Inside Empire”: Self-Orientalization in the Animation and Sounds of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises
Southeast Asian Review of English, 57(1), 174–198.
open access via sare.um.edu.my (publisher PDF)
Source: ORCID
Added: October 1, 2024
2019 journal article
Through the Haze: Fidelity of Adaptation in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies. http://ellids.com/research/volumesissues/archive-2-4/2-4-merchant/
Source: ORCID
Added: October 1, 2024
2016 journal article
Magnificent Obsession in 13 Frames + The Darjeeling Limited in 16 Frames
Film Matters.
Source: ORCID
Added: October 1, 2024
2016 journal article
Source: ORCID
Added: October 1, 2024
2015 journal article
The Censorship of Art After Death: Looking at Stanley Kubrick’s History with Censorship
Film Matters, 6(3), 60–63.
Source: ORCID
Added: October 1, 2024
Employment
Updated: April 11th, 2023 10:58
2021 - 2025
North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Instructor of Record
English and Communication
Education
Updated: April 11th, 2023 10:57
2021 - 2025
North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Ph.D.
Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
2018 - 2020
North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Master's
English - Film Studies
2012 - 2016
University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, NC, US
Bachelor's
English - Literature
2012 - 2016
University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, North Carolina, US
Bachelor's
Film Studies
Funding History
Funding history based on the linked ORCID record. Updated: April 21st, 2023 10:39
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The Intrusive, Necessary Labor of Archivists in the Face of Change
Giornate Del Cinema Muto
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