1st Edition
Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies Lights, Camera, Algorithms
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Film, Media, and AI
Chapter 1 -- Seeing through the Machine: Media Literacy, AI Literacy
Chapter 2 -- From Algorithms to Attribution: Teaching AI and Copyright
Chapter 3 -- Save the Chat! Storytelling and Screenwriting in the Age of AI
Chapter 4 -- Frames of the Future: AI’s Influence on Production
Chapter 5 -- Repeating Itself: Histories and Hallucinations
Chapter 6 -- Reel Resistance: Labor and Industry Responses to AI
Chapter 7 -- The Ghost in the Machine: Audiences and Fans
Conclusion
Biography
Bridget Kies is an Associate Professor of Film Studies and Production and Faculty Fellow for AI and Teaching at Oakland University, where she conducts workshops on teaching about and with AI. Her work on AI and media studies, co-authored with Mel Stanfill, has been published in Teaching Media. She is the author of Murder, She Wrote (2025) and co-editor of Fandom, the Next Generation (2022).
Mel Stanfill is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Texts and Technology Program and the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. Key focuses of Stanfill’s work include the uses and abuses of platforms and cultural studies of the law. They have been published in venues like New Media & Society, Cultural Studies, and Television & New Media, and are the author of four books, including Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy (2023).
