Dr. Weedman teaches both undergraduate and graduate-level Film Studies courses in the Department of English. Before arriving at Middle Tennessee State University in 2017, he taught at a variety of institutions, including the Georgia Institute of Technology and Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

His scholarship on British, American, and European film history and criticism has appeared in Film International, Jewish Film and New Media, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Senses of Cinema.

Dr. Weedman's most recent publications include an article "A Dark Exilic Vision of 1960s Britain: Gothic Horror and Film Noir Pervading Losey and Pinter’s The Servant," which was published in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies in 2019. He also contributed a book chapter "Fear and Exploiting in the Age of Aquarius: Early Representations of the Zodiac Killer in 1970s Film and Television" to the edited collection David Fincher's Zodiac: Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, edited by Matthew Sorrento and David C. Ryan) in 2022.

A native of central Illinois, Dr. Weedman lives in Murfreesboro with his wife Eudora, daughter Elenore, and cat Pip. Besides his passion for film, he is a lifelong Chicago Cubs baseball fan with a love of coffee, jazz, and midcentury kitsch.

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Articles and Book Chapters

• Weedman, Christopher. "Fear and Exploiting in the Age of Aquarius: Early Representations of the Zodiac Killer in 1970s Film and Television" in David Fincher's Zodiac: Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation. Eds. Matthew Sorrento and David C. Ryan. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2022, pp. 31-51.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "A Dark Exilic Vision of 1960s Britain: Gothic Horror and Film Noir Pervading Losey and Pinter's The Servant." Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 58, no. 3, Spring 2019, pp. 93-117.

• Weedman, Christopher. "Joseph Losey" in Fifty Hollywood Film Directors. Eds. Suzanne Leonard and Yvonne Tasker. Routledge, 2015, pp. 143-151.
   
• Burnett, Rebecca, Karen Head, Brandy Ball Blake, Andy Frazee, Diane Jakacki, Christopher Ritter, Nirmal Trivedi, and Christopher Weedman. "From the Ground Up: Shaping Community, Collaboration, and Multiliteracies at Georgia Tech" in Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies. Eds. Jim Purdy and Danielle Nicole DeVoss. University of Michigan Press/Sweetland, 2014.

Short Articles 

• Weedman, Christopher. "Melodramatic Postwar Confessions: Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini's La Paura (1954)." Senses of Cinema, no. 75, 2015.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "Jean-Pierre Melville's Quand tu liras cette lettre: The Novice and the Homme Fatale Amidst Moral Decay in Postwar France." Senses of Cinema, no. 74, 2015.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "Realism Painted with Darkness: T-Men and the Docu-noir Aesthetic of Anthony Mann and John Alton." Senses of Cinema, no. 67, 2013.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "Notre Musique: Godard's Shot/Reverse Shot Ruminations on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Senses of Cinema, no. 66, 2013.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "The Prowler." Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 27, no. 5, 2010, pp. 365-367.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "Mr. Klein." Senses of Cinema, no. 55, 2010.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "Optimism Unfulfilled: Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End and the Swinging Sixties." Senses of Cinema, no. 51, 2009.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "Under the Cover of Darkness: Expressionistic Experimentation in Howard Hawks' The Criminal Code." Senses of Cinema, no. 49, 2009.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "Cul-de-Sac." Senses of Cinema, no. 34, 2005.

Film/Blu-ray/DVD Reviews 

• Weedman, Christopher. "The Restoration of 'Der Rote Pabst': Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft on Eureka and Criterion." Blu-ray/DVD rev. of Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft (1930 and 1931, dir. G.W. Pabst). Film International (print edition),vol. 16, no. 2, 2018, pp. 115-119.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "Marcel Pagnol's 'Marseille Trilogy': An Essential Reemerges on Criterion." Blu-ray/DVD rev. of Marius (1931, dir. Alexander Korda), Fanny (1932, dir. Marc Allégret), and César (1936, dir. Marcel Pagnol). Film International (online edition), 12 Feb. 2018.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "The Charming 'Lithuanian Cary Grant': Walter Matthau in Hopscotch on Criterion." Blu-ray/DVD rev. of Hopscotch (1980, dir. Ronald Neame). Film International (online edition), 10 Oct. 2017.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "The Sublime Beauty of Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on Criterion." Blu-ray/DVD rev. of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, dir. Jacques Demy). Film International (online edition), 15 Sept. 2017.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "The Roots of Social Change: Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs on Criterion.” Blu-ray/DVD rev. of The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, dir. Ermanno Olmi). Film International (online edition), 30 May 2017.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "More Than Plays on Film: Marcel Pagnol's 'Marseille Trilogy' Restored by Janus Films." Rev. of Marius (1931, dir. Alexander Korda), Fanny (1932, dir. Marc Allégret), and César (1936, dir. Marcel Pagnol). Film International (online edition), 27 Mar. 2017.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "The Resurrection of Abel Gance's J'accuse (1938) on Olive Films." Blu-ray/DVD rev. of J’accuse (1938, dir. Abel Gance). Film International (online edition), 25 Jan. 2017.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "Mifune: The Last Samurai—Overshadowing His Tribute." Rev. of Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016, dir. Steven Okazaki). Film International (online edition), 28 Nov. 2016.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "A Fun Swansong: The Last Film Festival." Rev. of The Last Film Festival (2016, dir. Linda Yellen). Film International (online edition), 5 Oct. 2016.
  
  
• Weedman, Christopher. "Japan’s Modernist Enigma: Woman in the Dunes on Criterion." Blu-ray/DVD rev. of The Woman in the Dunes (1964, dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara). Film International (online edition), 25 Sep. 2016.

Book Reviews 

• Weedman, Christopher. "Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman." Jewish Film & New Media, vol. 8, no. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 122-125.

• Weedman, Christopher. "Mutating War Traumas: Monsters in the Machine by Steffen Hantke." Film International (online edition), 29 Jun. 2017.

Interviews (Academic Publications) 

• Weedman, Christopher. "Making Cinema for Television: An Interview with Linda Yellen." Film International (print edition),vol. 15, no. 2, 2017, pp. 131-138.

Interviews (Film Journalism Publications) 

• Weedman, Christopher. "Anne Heywood: Britain's Daring Beauty." Cinema Retro, vol. 13, no. 36, Jan. 2017, pp. 56-59.

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Dr. Weedman is currently writing the monograph Anne Heywood: Beauty, Sex, and the Controversial Film (under advance contract to University Press of Mississippi), a critical biography of the groundbreaking British actress of the films The Fox (1967) and I Want What I Want (1972). Excerpts from Dr. Weedman's personal interviews with Heywood appeared in the film magazine Cinema Retro in January 2017.

Other works in progress include an edited collection on the censorship of British X-certificate films during the long 1960s (co-edited with Benjamin Halligan of University of Wolverhampton, England and Anne Etienne of University of College Cork, Ireland) and an edited collection on film noir style in diverse genres (co-edited with Elyce Rae Helford of Middle Tennessee State University).

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• ENGL 6565/7565 -- Special Topics in Film Studies: British Cinema--Social Upheaval, Censorship, and Moral Panic
• ENGL 6565/7565 -- Special Topics in Film Studies: British New Wave Films of the 1950s and 1960s
• ENGL 6561/7561 -- Film Studies
• ENGL 4860 -- Special Topics in Film Studies: Global Filmmakers in Hollywood
• ENGL 4860 -- Special Topics in Film Studies: Global Hitchcock--World Cinema in the Tradition of Alfred Hitchcock
• ENGL 4860 -- Special Topics in Film Studies: Horror Films (scheduled for Fall 2022)
• ENGL 4855 -- Film Theory and Criticism
• ENGL 3885 -- Topics in Gender and Film: Women in British Film
• ENGL 3870 -- Film History (scheduled for Fall 2022)
• ENGL 3860 -- Film Genre
• ENGL 3007 -- Writing and the Literary Imagination
• ENGL 2020 -- Themes in Literature and Culture: Detective Fiction
• ENGL 2020 -- Themes in Literature and Culture: Reexamining the Swinging Sixties--British Literature and Film of the 1960s (scheduled for Fall 2022)
• ENGL 1020 -- Research and Argumentative Writing
• ENGL 1010 -- Expository Writing

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