Samantha N. Sheppard, PhD

Mary Armstrong Meduski '80 Assistant Professor

Department of Performing and Media Arts

Cornell University

sheppard@cornell.edu

Publications

Books

Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen

Edited Collections

Sporting Realities: Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary

From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry

Journal Articles

"Glorious Bones: Esmaa Mohamoud's Football Fabulation"

“Introduction to Sport and Failure” & “Boobie Miles: Failure and Friday Night Lights”

“Close-Up: Mediated Contests: Sports, Race, and the Power of Narrative" & “The Exception That Proves the Rule: Race, Place, and Meritocracy in Rand University”

“I Love Cinema: Black Film and Speculative Practice in the Era of Online Crowdfunding”

“Historical Contestants: African American Documentary Traditions in On the Shoulders of Giants”

“Persistently Displaced: Situated Knowledges and Interrelated Histories in The Spook Who Sat by the Door”

Book Chapters

"Introduction"

“Persistently Displaced: Situated Knowledges and Interrelated Histories in The Spook Who Sat by the Door”

“‘Tyler Perry Presents…’: The Cultural Projects and Politics of Tyler Perry’s Media Platforms”

“Bruising Moments: Affect and the L.A. Rebellion”

Reviews, Booklet Essays and Program Notes

“The Art of Feeling: The Presence and Performance of Kaycee Moore.”

Review of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge

Review of Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood

“Structuring Absences Revealed”

Review, “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema—Symposium”

Program Notes, The Rosa Parks Story (2002) & Program Notes, Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)

Public Scholarship

Flash Art 333

"A Radically Different Way to Look at Incarceration"

"The Films That Understand Why People Riot"

“How Hale County This Morning, This Evening Challenges Oscars Convention”

“Art and the Idea of Black Film: A Conversation"

“Give and Go: The Double Movement of Shut Up and Dribble”

“The Gap Between Participant and Observer”