Education:

• A.B., University of Illinois, 1981
• Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1991

Areas of Interest:

• Media, Film, Popular Culture

Bio:

• Dr. Crane teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in communication theory, mass media and film studies. Crane received his A.B. in Psychology and studied for his doctorate at The Institute of Communications Research where he specialized in cultural studies. The author of Terror and everyday life: Singular moments in the history of the horror film(Sage, 1994), Crane has written extensively on the role genre plays in the interpretation of cinematic violence. In addition, Crane is the author of several studies marking the complex interplay between individual directors and their chosen generic niche.