Douglas A. Cunningham

Douglas A. Cunningham is Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University and Adjunct Professor of Literature and Film Studies at Westminster College, USA. He is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and taught literature and film at the U.S. Air Force Academy for five years of his 20-year military career. He earned a Ph.D. in Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009. He is the editor of "The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration" (Scarecrow, 2011), the co-editor (with John Nelson) of "A Companion to the War Film" (Wiley, 2016), and the editor of "Critical Insights: Alfred Hitchcock (Salem, 2017). His essays have appeared in "Screen," "CineAction," "The Moving Image," and "Critical Survey." In 2015, he directed "Listen, Darkling," a short fiction film produced as a personal tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo." He is currently at work on an academic monograph, a study of military filmmaking during World War II.