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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Global and Transnational Cinema; Digital Media Production; Stylistics; Dance in Film; Digital Humanities; Contemporary Cinema; French Cinema; Industry Studies; Videographic Criticism; Movement in Media; Genre Studies; Performative Research

Education

Ph.D. in Communication Arts (Film), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017

M.A. in Communication Arts (Film), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010

C.M.A. (Certified Movement Analyst), Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, 2014 

B.A. in English, Carleton College, 2008 

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Assistant Professor, Institute of Communications Research
Assistant Professor, French and Italian

Recent Publications

Oyallon-Koloski, J. (2024). Storytelling in motion: Cinematic choreography and the film musical. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197602669.001.0001

Oyallon-Koloski, J., & Junokas, M. J. (2022). Enhancing Film Choreography Through Digital Representation of Camera Movement and Agency. In Proceedings of 2022 8th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2022 Article 14 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Par F180475). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3537972.3537990

Oyallon-Koloski, J. (2021). Danceploitation, Musical Disruption, and Synergy in Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, and Breakin’. In J. L. Wright, & M. Shearer (Eds.), Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons (pp. 15-27). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501357084.0007

Oyallon-Koloski, J. (2021). Danceploitation, Musical Disruption, and Synergy in Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, and Breakin’. In Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons (pp. 15-27). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..

Oyallon-Koloski, J., Valkanova, D., Junokas, M. J., Macmaster, K., & Mininsohn, S. M. (2021). Moving Cinematic History: Filmic Analysis through Performative Research. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 15(1).

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