Joel Black is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Black has written extensively on subfields of literature and film studies areas such as romanticism, postmodernism, philosophy and history of science, and cultural studies. He is the author of ''The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture'' (1991) and ''The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative'' (2002).
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