Christopher Sieving

Blurred image of the arch used as background for stylistic purposes.
Associate Professor

Christopher Sieving specializes in film history and analysis. His areas of interest include 1960s and 1970s world cinema, film genre, visual style and narrative, and African American film history. His articles have been published in The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, The Velvet Light Trap, Screening Noir, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Journal of Communication Inquiry. He is the author of Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), a social and industrial history of African American filmmaking from 1963 to 1970, and winner of the Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association. He recently published Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (2022) for Indiana University Press.

Education:

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Courses Regularly Taught:
FILM 2120
FILM 4250/6250
FILM 4260/6260
FILM 4620/6620
Articles Featuring Christopher Sieving
Sieving_Blood

Christopher Sieving publishes "Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's 'Ganja & Hess'"

Associate Professor Dr. Christopher Sieving has published a new book on the history of Bill Gunn's cult classic Ganja & Hess. Pleading the Blood is now available from…

Events featuring Christopher Sieving
Once Upon
October 4, 4:00pm

Cinema Roundtable: "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

Balcony Theatre | Room 400

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood offers a stylish tribute to 1960s American movie culture along with a fantasy about Sharon Tate, hippies, and the Manson family, all bathed in the retro colors and sounds of the era. As with every new Tarantino film, there have been immediate debates around his brash storytelling, revisions of…

Gunn
January 28, 12:40pm

Department Colloquium: Bill Gunn's Disappeared Debut and the Limits of New Hollywood

Room 400 (Balcony Theatre)

In the late 1960s, under pressure from various social critics and government entities, Hollywood studios began to recruit African American directors for the first time: Warner Bros. hired Gordon Parks to adapt his novel The Learning Tree, and both Ossie Davis and Melvin Van Peebles found employment at United Artists. In addition, the actor-writer…

Screening
March 25, 6:30pm

Screening: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) |

Room 400 | Fine Arts Building

Join us for a special screening of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, introduced by film studies faculty Christopher Sieving. Our upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors takes much of its influence from science fiction B-movies of the 50s and this 1956 classic arguably exemplifies those inspirations the best. Complete with…

Contact Information

csieving@uga.edu

Other Information

Curriculum Vitae:
SIEVING c.v. 12 15 22.doc (95.5 KB)

View Directory

Support us

We appreciate your financial support. Your gift is important to us and helps support critical opportunities for students and faculty alike, including lectures, travel support, and any number of educational events that augment the classroom experience. Click here to learn more about giving.

Every dollar given has a direct impact upon our students and faculty.