Author: Casey Walker / University of Texas at Austin

Casey Walker is enrolled in the M.A. program for the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin. He also spent the last 19 years working in television and radio and is currently the Marketing Manager for the StarDate radio program, a daily radio program and podcast put out by the University of Texas. His thesis project looks at cinematography in the Classical Hollywood studio system from the dawn of sound cinema to the Golden Age of Television, focusing on Karl Freund as a case study. He has also presented multiple conference papers on how sci-fi and monster films (such as Monsters (2010), Arrival (2016), and Star Wars Episodes VII and VII (2015, 2017) are reacting to the rise in visibility of white nationalism in the 2010's.