Stephen Tropiano

Stephen Tropiano is the founding director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, where he teaches courses on television and film history, theory and criticism. He has also taught courses in film and media studies at University of California, Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymount University.

Stephen Tropiano is the founding director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, where he teaches courses on television and film history, theory and criticism. He has also taught courses in film and media studies at University of California, Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymount University. Tropiano is the author of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on Television (2000) as well as such books as Rebels & Chicks: A History of the Hollywood Teen Movies (2006), and the forthcoming Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive: 100+ Years of Controversial Cinema. He is also currently the editor of the Journal of Film and Video, the oldest film journal in the United States. His critical writing on gender representation on film and on television has appeared in The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review and several critical anthologies. Tropiano earned his Ph.D. in cinema and television studies from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. He received his M.A. in cinema studies from New York University and his Bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College, where he majored in television and film.

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