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- Avi Santo
- Assistant Professor
- Communications & Theatre Arts
- 3014 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-6971
- asanto@odu.edu
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Education
- University of Texas - Austin,
2006
- Major: Radio-Television-Film
- Degree: Ph. D.
- University of Texas at Austin,
2002
- Major: Radio-Television-Film
- Degree: M.A.
- Concordia University,
1999
- Major: Film Studies
- Degree: B.F.A.
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Book Chapters
- Santo, A. “The Boondocks fans and Differentiated Black American Politics”..
- Santo, A. (2007). “Para-Television and Discourses of Distinction: The culture of production at HBO.”.. New York: Routledge University Press.
- Santo, A. (2002). “Weight, Body Image, and Masculinity in The Sopranos.”. (pp. 72-94). New York: Columbia University Press.
- Santo, A. (1998). “Israel at Fifty at the Library of Congress.”. (pp. 2-15). Washington, DC: Library of Congress Press.
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Articles
- Santo, A. “The Merchandizable TV text and the Paradox of Licensing in the Classical Network Era – Batman versus The Green Hornet”. Cinema Journal
- Santo, A. (2008). “Act locally, sell globally: Inuit media and the global cultural economy". Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 22 (3), (pp. 327-340).
- Santo, A. (2005). “Between Integration and Segregation: Former Soviet Union Filmmaking in Israel.”. Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 46 (2),
- Santo, A. (2004). “Nunavut: Inuit Television and Cultural Citizenship.”. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 7 (4), (pp. 379-397).
- Santo, A. (2003). “Film Ads in the Montreal Press: 1905-1908.”. Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 12 (1), (pp. 69-82).
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Presentations
- 'Who’s That Little Chatterbox?’: Radio Orphan Annie, Child Consumers, and Authorial Moral Management
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Date: March, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Scholarly Writing in the Digital Age
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Date: March, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Provocation: The Future of TV Studies, or, When Do We Start Making Television?
- Conference Name: Massachussets Institute for Technology
- Sponsoring Organization: Massachussets Institute for Technology
- Date: November, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Rethinking Authorship from a Corporate Sensibility: George Trendle, The Lone Ranger, and the Management of Cultural Brands
- Conference Name: University of Texas at Austin
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Texas at Austin
- Date: October, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Transmedia Brand Licensing prior to Conglomeration: Developing The Lone Ranger Brand, managing cross-media interaction and
cultivating child consumers, 1933-1938
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Date: March, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Building Better Brand Value through Morality Management: Transmedia Licensing and The Lone Ranger, 1933 – 1954
- Conference Name: Old Dominion University
- Sponsoring Organization: Old Dominion University
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: March 14, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Response to Academic Publishing in the Digital Age
- Conference Name: Flow
- Sponsoring Organization: Flow
- Location: Austin, TX
- Date: October, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Response to Television's Future and the Role of TV Scholarship
- Conference Name: Flow
- Sponsoring Organization: Flow
- Location: Austin, TX
- Date: October, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Discourses of Authorship in the US Comic Book Industry
- Conference Name: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
- Date: March, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- The Israeli Peace Movement as Framed by the NYTimes (1984-2002)
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: New York, NY
- Date: May, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Discourses of Masculinity in HBO's The Sopranos
- Conference Name:
- Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Date: June, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Nunavut: DIY Cultural Identity and Inuit Television
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: New Orleans, LA
- Date: May, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Michel Foucault and Confessions of Jewishness in Post-1967 Israeli Cinema
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: New Orleans, LA
- Date: May, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- What’s in a (Brand) Name? The Case of Marvel Comics versus Sony Pictures
- Conference Name: Popular Culture Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Popular Culture Association
- Location: San Antonio, TX
- Date: April, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Are We Not Jews? Shifting Representation of Religious Identity in Post-Oslo Israeli Cinema
- Conference Name: Society for Cinema Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema Studies
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Date: March, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- FOX-y Original Programming: FOX, HBO, and the development of a product brand
- Conference Name: Popular Culture Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Popular Culture Association
- Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Date: February, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- How to Use Film and Popular Culture to Teach about the Middle East
- Conference Name:
- Location: University of Texas
- Date: 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Between Integration and Cultural Preservation: Russian Filmmaking in Israel
- Conference Name: Society for Cinema Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema Studies
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Israel’s ‘Peace Now’ and the Media: Strategies for Mobilization
- Conference Name: Middle Eastern Studies Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Middle Eastern Studies Association
- Location: Orlando, Fl
- Date: 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
- Teaching History through Film: Israel
- Conference Name:
- Location: John Cooper Upper School, Houston, Texas
- Date: 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Santo, A.
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research