Sam Littman

Dynamic professional with extensive experience in academic administration and curriculum development at Texas Tech University. Proven ability to enhance student engagement through innovative program revisions and workshops. Skilled in film analysis and digital media production, fostering professional ambitions while managing complex projects in high-pressure environments.

• Junior Manager / Executive Assistant, Underground, 09/18, 05/19, Assistant to Founder/CEO Trevor Engelson, Managed all administrative tasks, Signed and managed 26 clients
• Production and Literary Assistant, Untitled Entertainment, 04/17, 09/18, Assisted the Head of Production, Laura Rister, Coordinated development and post-production on projects, Credited as ‘Miscellaneous Crew’ for work on IO
• Writer’s Assistant, David Elliot, 04/15, 03/17, Proofread and provided notes on scripts, Researched and collated material for potential projects, Managed Mr. Elliot’s schedule

• Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture, Jeff Menne, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2019, https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4F7SNYTEIRUAWRMMEBHQ/full?target=10.1080/01439685.2020.1773092
• Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts, Gregory Zinman, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2020, https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GPNCQFXYPAARPESVXS9D/full?target=10.1080/01439685.2020.1836848
• The Romanian Cinema of Nationalism: Historical Films as Propaganda and Spectacle, Onoriu Colacel, Film & History, 51, 2, 2021, 63-64, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/842306/pdf

• The Long Take as a Reaction to the Past, Senses of Cinema, 71, 07/14, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2014/feature-articles/the-long-take-as-a-reaction-to-the-past-in-contemporary-romanian-cinema/
• Great Directors: Kelly Reichardt, Senses of Cinema, 71, 07/14, https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2014/great-directors/kelly-reichardt/

• The Cinema of Survival: Historicizing Neoliberalism in Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow, Currently under review, Discourse
• Shifting Roles in Representation: From Post-Fordism to Neoliberalism in Hollywood Talent Packaging, Currently under review, Media Industries
• The Devil in the Details: Long Take Articulations of Multigenerational Holocaust Trauma in Jeanne Dielman, Currently under review, Critical Inquiry
• Camera on the Verge of Collapse: Endururational Embodiment of Neoliberal Exhaustion in Rosetta, Currently under review, Critical Inquiry

• John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Screening American Independent Film, Routledge, 2023
• I Feel Like Roger Corman: John Singleton’s Harnessing of Hustle & Flow, John Singleton: The Soulful Auteur, Forthcoming, 2024

• Ethics of Inclusion: Piloting Grading Contracts in FYW at Texas Tech University, Council of Writing Program Administrators 2023 National Conference, 2023
• Symphonies and Soundbites: The Harmony of Social Media Surveillance and Cancel Culture in Todd Field’s Tar, Pay(ing) Attention: Narratives of Notoriety and Fame, Stony Brook University, 2023
• Reporting on the Wound: Writing as Trauma Therapy in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed and The Card Counter, Trauma and Nightmare: Third Annual Conference, InMind Support, 2022
• Shifting Roles in Representation: From Post-Fordism to Neoliberalism in Hollywood Talent Packaging, Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, 2021
• 29,000 views of La Rue: The Educational and Consumer Appeal of Video Analyses as in Film Studies, Pedagogy 24 Times Per Second (P24X): Film & Media in the Classroom, University of Florida, 2015

• Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Texas Tech University, 08/24, 06/25
• Research Fellow, Transylvania International Film Festival, 05/14, 07/14, Provided with lodging, festival pass, and interviews in furtherance of my study of Romanian cinema and MA thesis.
• Fellow, Sorkin in L.A. Learning Practicum, 03/13, One of two Syracuse film students selected by faculty to attend 'Sorkin Week', a week-long immersion into the industry in Los Angeles.

• Trauma theory
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Modernism
• Neoliberalism in American Cinema
• Canon formation
• Film Industry
• Post-colonial cinemas
• Post-communist cinemas

• Trauma in Cinema
• 1960s/70s American Cinema
• International Cinema, 1930 – 1960
• International Cinema, 1970 – 2000
• Film Festivals
• Global Film Noir
• Transnational Cinema
• Business of Film
• Shakespeare
• 19th Century American Poetry
• James Joyce and Virginia Woolf
• Literature of the Global South
• Critical Methods in Literary Theory
• Teaching Film Studies
• Teaching College Literature