Adam Hebert

  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Adam's Affiliations: Digital Narrative and Interactive Design

Adam Hebert teaches courses in Film and Media Studies, English, Film Production, and Composition. He is also at work on a documentary film about a local game preserve and its animal inhabitants, an undertaking which has given him a chance to continue working with former students and to participate in the University’s First Experiences in Research (FE-R) Program. Formerly, he was part of Pitt’s Prison Education Program, and he has had the pleasure of co-organizing the Film and Media Studies Program’s Undergraduate Student Symposium. His research and teaching interests revolve around sports media, animal studies, and the history of cinematography.

Courses Taught

Contemporary Film

Film Genres

Filmmaking I: Fundamentals

Images, Icons, & Ideas

Introduction to Film

Media / Ecology

Seminar in Composition: Film

Technologies of the Body

Visual Literacy

Education & Training

  • Ph.D Film and Media Studies, Dept. of English, University of Pittsburgh
  • M.A. Film Studies, Dept. of English, North Carolina State University
  • B.A. Cinematography & Videography, Emerson College

Representative Publications

“On Looking Away from Animals in NOPE.” The Impossible Shot: Race, Genre, and Spectacle in Jordan Peele’s NOPE, ed. Eric Gary Anderson, Russell Meeuf, and Nancy McGuire Roche. University Press of Mississippi. Forthcoming.

“‘Aren’t We Going to Play Anymore?’ Bobby Jones’s Warner Bros. Golf Instructional Films.” Bright Wall / Dark Room 116: 28 February 2023.

“Experiments in the Cine-Olympic Cycle: Camera Technology and Operation in The Grand Olympics (1961) and White Rock (1977).” Velvet Light Trap 87: Spring 2021. DOI: 10.7560/VLT8072

“Concrete Jungles: Street Skateboard Cinema, Animal Worlds, and Contingent Ecologies.” Cine-Files 14: Spring 2019.