I’m Rielle Navitski, and I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia.

My major research projects explore the formation of media publics and taste cultures both "high" and "low," tracing the political and geopolitical reverberations of popular sensationalism and art cinema. Other research interests include cinema's links with print culture and the international circulation of film stars and genres.

My book Transatlantic Cinephilia: Film Culture Between Latin America and France, 1945-1965 (University of California Press, 2023) explores the blossoming of film-related organizations - cineclubs, archives, festivals, and film schools - in postwar Latin America in close collaboration with French cultural institutions. These developments lent social prestige to Latin America's growing urban middle classes while advancing the aims of French cultural diplomacy in a polarized Cold War climate.

My previous book Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil (Duke University Press, 2017) looks at how early films and illustrated newspapers and magazines in the two nations staged graphic spectacles of violence that were framed as signs of local modernity. The book was a finalist for the Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association.

I am also the co-editor (with Leslie Marsh) of Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook (University of North Georgia Press, 2022) and (with Nicolas Poppe) of Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960, an anthology of critical essays and primary texts in English translation (Indiana University Press, 2017).