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Blair Davis is Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. His books include The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2012), Rashomon Effects (Routledge, 2015), Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page (Rutgers University Press, 2017), Comic Book Movies (Rutgers University Press, 2018), Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators and Culture in the Golden Age (University of Texas Press, 2022) and Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell About Heaven and Hell (Rutgers University Press, 2024). Davis appeared on two episodes of James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction on AMC ("Aliens" and "Monsters"). He has written articles for USA Today, The Washington Post, Saturday Evening Post and Ms. Magazine, and has been interviewed by ABC-7, CBC Radio, The Chicago Tribune, PRI, Reel Chicago, USA Today, Voice of America, WBEZ and The Wall Street Journal. He has essays included in such anthologies as Desegregating Comics (2023), The Cambridge Companion to Comics (2023), Recollecting Collecting (2023), Keywords in Comics Studies (2021), The Other 1980s (2021), Comics and Pop Culture (2020), Working Class Comic Book Heroes (2018), the Eisner-award-winning The Blacker the Ink: African Americans and Comic Books, Graphic Novels and Sequential Art (2015), Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (2014), American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium (2010) Reel Food: Essays on Film and Food (2004) and Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear (2004). Davis serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal "Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society," and has served on the Executive Board of the Comics Studies Society.
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