“Friending Eddie Coyle: Metadata and Metapublics”
-J. D. Connor
Art History and Film & Media Studies, Yale University
J.D. Connor received his Ph.D. from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins for a dissertation on grammar and existentialism in postwar American literature. Before coming to Yale in 2009, he worked at Slate and taught at Harvard.
His principal focus is the interplay of art and industry in the Hollywood system,
particularly its contemporary version. As part of that, he is currently completing The
Studios after the Studios. Offshoots include studies of Hollywood numbers and
production design. Other interests include the history of tape recording, media shifts
in the Kennedy era, and the theory of cinematic fidelity. In all of these, his overriding
concern lies in detailing modes of collaborative aesthetic production in highly
structured situations, be those studios, transcriptions, or adaptations.