About

David Scott Diffrient is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. His articles have been published in several journals, including Black Camera, Cinema Journal, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Journal of Fandom Studies, Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Television, Journal of Popular Film and Television, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Post Script, and Velvet Light Trap, as well as in edited collections about film and television topics. He is the co-editor of Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls (Syracuse University Press, 2010) and East Asian Film Remakes (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) as well as the author of M*A*S*H (Wayne State University Press, 2008), Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), Comic Drunks, Crazy Cults, and Lovable Monsters: Bad Behavior on American Television (Syracuse University Press, 2022), Body Genre: Anatomy of the Horror Film (University Press of Mississippi, 2023), and (with coauthor Hye Seung Chung) Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2021).