Derek Kompare
Assistant Professor
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Derek Kompare is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cinema-Television in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. His research interests focus on the question of media formations, i.e., how particular media forms and institutions develop. He has written several articles on television history and form in anthologies and journals, and is the author of
Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television (2005), and a forthcoming study of
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. At SMU, Derek teaches courses on media theory, television history, media globalization, science fiction, crime television, and comics.
Selected Publications
Books
CSI (Boston: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
Rerun Nation: How Repeats Created American Television (New York: Routledge, 2005).
Anthology Chapters
“The Benefits of Banality: Domestic Syndication in the Post-Network Era,” in Amanda D. Lotz, ed., Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era (New York: Routledge, 2009) 55-74.
“More ‘Moments of Television’: Online Cult Television Authorship,” in Michael Kackman et al, eds., Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (New York: Routledge, 2010).
“Extraordinarily Ordinary: The Osbournes as ‘An American Family’,” in Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette, eds., Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2nd ed.) (New York: NYU Press, 2009) 100-19.
“I've Seen This One Before: The Construction of ‘Classic TV’ on Cable Television,” in Janet Thumim, ed., Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s (London: I.B. Tauris, 2001) 19-34.
Journal Articles
“Reruns 2.0: Revising Repetition for Multi-Platform Television Distribution,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (forthcoming)
“Remapping Media and Media Studies,” The Velvet Light Trap 62 (Fall 2008) 70-71.
“Publishing Flow: DVD Box Sets and the Reconception of Television,” Television and New Media 7:4 (2006) 335-60.
“’Greyish Rectangles’: Creating the Television Heritage in the 1970s,” Media History 9:2 (2003) 153-69.
Research Concentrations
media forms and institutions; television culture; comics; fan cultures
Education
Ph.D. in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
M.A. in Telecommunications, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994
B.A. in Media Arts, University of Arizona, 1990
Distinctions
Runner-Up, 2006 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award (for
Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television [Routledge, 2005])
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