Joan McGettigan

Since 1997
Associate Professor of Radio-TV-Film

B.A.-Temple
M.A.-Penn State
Ph.D.-Penn State

Moudy South 178D
j.mcgettigan@tcu.edu
817.257.6690

Expert In

• Filmmaking
• Film criticism and analysis

Courses Taught

• Advanced Study: Radio-TV-Film
• American Cinema
• British Cinema and European Culture: RTVF in London
• Film Genres
• History of Film
• Media Analysis
• Survey of Film
• Topics in Film

Joan McGettigan is Associate Professor of Radio-TV-Film at TCU.  She teaches courses in film history, especially the history of Hollywood.  She participates in TCU’s summer Study Abroad program, taking students for four-week study sessions to London each year.  She is also the coordinator of the RTVF Department's Film Library, which currently holds more than 15,000 film and television programs.  Dr. McGettigan programs and hosts the Radio-TV-Film Thursday Night Movies series, a free event which runs each Fall and Spring semester.

Dr. McGettigan is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and her recent research has been focused on the history of movies in that city, especially about the effects of the Great Depression on the movie business.

She earned her PhD at Penn State University, and has been on the faculty at TCU since 1997.

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