Departments/Programs
American Studies
Degrees
University of Iowa, Ph.D.
University of Iowa, M.A.
Gonzaga University, B.A.
Expertise
American media and culture.
Profile
A cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema, Thomas Doherty is a professor of American Studies at Brandeis University.
Courses Taught
| AMST | 35a | Hollywood and American Culture |
| AMST | 36b | Television and American Culture |
| AMST | 100a | Foundations of American Culture |
| AMST | 100b | Twentieth-Century American Culture |
| AMST | 131b | News on Screen |
| AMST | 136a | Planet Hollywood: American Cinema in Global Perspective |
| AMST | 177b | True Crime and American Culture |
Fulbright Distinguished Professorship, Roosvelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, the Netherlands (2018)
Edwin Smith Family Distinguished Speaker Award from the Westfield Athenaeum (2010)
Boston Society of Film Critics Special Commendation for Hollywood’s Censor (2008)
Academy Film Scholar (The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) (2003)
Theater Library Association Award for “excellence in writing about film and broadcasting” (2000 – 2001)
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board travel grant (1996 – 1997)
Fellow, Directors Guild of America (1992 – 1993)
Fulbright Fellowship (Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies, The Netherlands) (1990 – 1991)
Fulbright Research Lectureship (South Korea) (1981 – 1982)
Scholarship
Doherty, Thomas. “From Melies to Polanski: The Dreyfus Affair on Film.” Cineaste Fall 2020: 4-11.
Doherty, Thomas. “The Segregated Past of Drive-In Movie Theaters.” Hollywood Reporter June 27, 2020.
Doherty, Thomas. “Broken Barriers.” Los Angeles Review of Books March 28, 2020.
Doherty, Thomas. “Salka Viertel: The Kindest of Strangers.” The Tablet February 7, 2020.
Doherty, Thomas. “The Plot Against America.” Hollywood Reporter February 27, 2020.
Doherty, Thomas. “What FDR’s Polio Crusade Tells Us About Presidential Leadership.” The Conversation May 12, 2020. (2020)
Doherty, Thomas. Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century. Columbia University Press, 2020.
Doherty, Thomas. Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century. Columbia University Press, 2020.
Doherty, Thomas. “Hitler at the Garden.” The Tablet February 20, 2019.
Doherty, Thomas. “The Banality of the Eichmann Trial.” The Tablet October 9, 2018.
Doherty, Thomas. “Reflections on Hollywood’s Blacklist.” Hollywood Reporter November 17, 2017.
Doherty, Thomas. “The Art of the Rebuke.” Inside Higher Education July 18, 2017.
Doherty, Thomas. “To Be Or Not To Be: Hollywood’s Other Great Anti-Nazi Movie.” The Tablet June 2, 2017.
Doherty, Thomas. Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Doherty, Thomas. “24: The Following Takes Place in Real Time.” Stories of Nation: Fiction, Politics, and the American Experience. Ed. Martin Griffin and Christopher Hebert. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2017. 271-296.
Doherty, Thomas. “Hollywood, Sex, Lies, and Glamour.” Rev. of Black Sunset, by Clancy Seigel. Cineaste Spring 2017: 67-71.
Doherty, Thomas. “In the Age of Trump: A Look Back at How Hollywood Has Welcomed Immigrants.” Hollywood Reporter (2017)
Doherty, Thomas. “American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood.” Cineaste Winter 2015: 34-37.
Doherty, Thomas. “Endings: I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.” Sight and Sound August 2015: 37.
Doherty, Thomas. “Fifty Shades of Yellow: Cecil B. DeMille’s Orientalism.” Los Angeles Review of Books (2016)
Doherty, Thomas. “Film and trhe First Amendment.” Rev. of Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures, by Jeremy Geltzer. Cineaste Summer 2016: 72-73.
Doherty, Thomas. “Forbidden Films: the Hidden Legacy of Nazi Films.” The Tablet (2016)
Doherty, Thomas. “Norman Corwin and the Blacklist.” Anatomy of Sound: Norman Corwin and Media Authorship. Ed. Neil Verma and Jacob Smith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016. 53-73..
Doherty, Thomas. “Remembering the Hollywood Mogul Who Rescured Hundreds of Jews.” Hollywood Reporter (2016)
Doherty, Thomas. “To Late for Tears.” Cineaste Fall 2016 (2016): 67.
Doherty, Thomas. “Bernard Natan’s Restoration.” Chronicle of Higher Education June 6, 2014: B14-B16.
Doherty, Thomas. “The Birth of a Nation at 100.” Hollywood Reporter, February 7, 2015.
Doherty, Thomas. “The Interview: Sony Surrender Joins Long Line of Studios Bowing to `Intimidation” Tactics.” Hollywood Reporter December 21, 2015.
Doherty, Thomas. “The Israeli Boycott That Backfired.” Los Angeles Times November 6, 2014.: A17.
Doherty, Thomas. “The Rise and Fall of Catholic Hollywood, or from the Production Code to The Da Vinci Code.” Moralizing Cinema: Film, Catholicism, and Power. Ed. Daniel Biltereyst and Daniela Treveri Gennari, editors.. New York: Routledge, 2015. 49-65..
Doherty, Thomas. “The Serious, Somber, Boston Marathon Bombing Trial.” Slate March 19, 2015.
Doherty, Thomas. “Bringing the Slave Narrative to Screen: Steve McQueen and John Ridley’s Searing Depiction of America’s `Peculiar Institution’.” Cineaste Winter 2003: 4-8.
Doherty, Thomas. “Cameras Shooting in Battle: Five Auteurs and Their World War II Films.” Rev. of Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, by Mark Harris. New York Times March 13, 2014: C4.
Doherty, Thomas. “The Paratext’s the Thing.” Chronicle of Higher Education January 20, 2014: B13-B15.
Doherty, Thomas. “Storied TV: Cable Is the New Novel.” Chronicle of Higehr Education B13-B15.
Doherty, Thomas. “The Two Kinds of People Who Watch Breaking Bad.” Salon (2013)
Doherty, Thomas. Hollywood and Hitler. first ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Doherty, Thomas. Hollywood’s Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration. Columbia University Press, 2007.
Doherty, Thomas. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. Columbia University Press, 2003.
Doherty, Thomas. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934. Columbia University Press, 1999.
Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. Columbia University Press, 1993.
Doherty, Thomas. Teenagers & Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950’s. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988.
