Timothy Shary
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| Born | August 17, 1967 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | film scholar |
Timothy Shary (born August 17, 1967) is an American film scholar, and a leading authority on the representation of youth in movies. He has been a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Clark University, and the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema (2002) and Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen (2005) and the co-editor with Alexandra Seibel of Youth Culture in Global Cinema (2007). He edited Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema (2013) and in 2014 published a new edition of Generation Multiplex with the subtitle The Image of Youth in American Cinema Since 1980. Shary most recently co-edited a collection on filmmaker Amy Heckerling and co-authored Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema, both in 2016.
Shary's primary research has focused on the representational politics of age and gender, and has been published in many anthologies. His essays and reviews have also appeared in journals such as Men and Masculinities, Film Quarterly, Sight & Sound, Journal of Film and Video, Film Criticism, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Wide Angle, and The Journal of Popular Culture.
Shary earned his B.A. degree in 1991 at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where his work focused on cinema studies. His Division III project (a thesis written for graduation) examined voyeurism in Alfred Hitchcock's films, and he also wrote "A History of Student Activities and Achievements at Hampshire College". Shary went on to earn an M.A. in Film Scholarship at Ohio University in 1992, where his thesis was entitled The Present Personal Truth: Three Properties of Video and Their Effect on the Reception of Contemporary Narrative Cinema. Much of that thesis was published in two journal articles: “Present Personal Truths: The Alternative Phenomenology of Video in I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing” and “Video as Accessible Artifact and Artificial Access: The Early Films of Atom Egoyan”.
In 1998, Shary earned his Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Massachusetts, with a dissertation entitled Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American Cinema, 1981-1996. This study would be the foundation for his first book in 2002.
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