Dr. Fareed I. Ben-Youssef Associate Professor - Film & Media Studies

Fareed Ben-Youssef is Associate Professor in Film & Media Studies in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He earned his PhD in Film and Media from the University of California, Berkeley. His first book, No Jurisdiction: The Law and Post-9/11 Genre Film (SUNY Press, July 2022), frames Hollywood genre films as a key to understanding a crisis-filled world shaped by the global War on Terror. His work on global cinema has appeared in journals such as The Journal of Popular Culture, Japanese Language and Literature, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is also the Film Review Editor of Surveillance & Society. As part of his efforts to teach outside the classroom, Ben-Youssef has also organized myriad university film series and hosted master classes with award-winning directors such as Ciro Guerra, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, and Naomi Kawase.

Publications

Book

Ben-Youssef, F. No Jurisdiction: Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema. Albany: State University of New York Press, July 2022. 5 chapters/87,255 words.

Books in Progress

The Cinema of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi: In the Shadow of Quiet Apocalypse.

The War on Terror Comes to Paris: Opération Sentinelle in Contemporary French Cinema.

Articles (Refereed)

Ben-Youssef, F. "Uncanny Reflections: Frenzy as Hitchcock's Kaleidoscope." Quarterly Review of Film and Video. pp. 1-31. Published online in February 2024.

Ben-Youssef, F. "From Inculcation to Liberation: Pop Culture-Addled Snipers in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper and Alba Sotorra's Game Over." Special Issue on Transnational Film and the US Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. Journal of War and Culture Studies. 17.2 (2024). pp. 209-227. Note: Republished in an edited collection, Transnational Film and the US Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, by Routledge in January 2025.

Adams, A., Ben-Youssef, F., Schneier, B., Murata, K. "Superheroes on Screen: Real Life Lessons for Security Debates." Security Journal. 33.4 (2020). pp. 565-582. Published online in 2019.

Ben-Youssef, F. "The Birth and Death of a Professional Wrestling Alter-Ego: Takahara Hidekazu's Gamushara and the Loss of a Transgressive Identity." Japanese Language and Literature. Special Issue on Transgressive Femininity. 53.2 (2019). pp. 203-231.

Tarcov, M., Ben-Youssef, F. "Bodies in Pain, Pleasure, and Flux: Transgressive Femininity in Japanese Media and Literature." Japanese Language and Literature. Special Issue on Transgressive Femininity. 53.2 (2019). pp. 177-181.

Ben-Youssef, F. "'Attendez la Crème!': Food and Cultural Trauma in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained." The Journal of Popular Culture. 50.4 (August 2017). pp. 814-834.

Ben-Youssef, F. "Disrupted Genre, Disrupted Lives: Adieu Gary and the Post-9/11 Banlieue as Ghost Town." Studia Filmoznawcze (Film Studies). Special Issue on the Transnational Western. 38 (June 2017). pp. 75-89.

Ben-Youssef, F. "Where Our Hungers Trump Morality: The Border in Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's The Counselor." Southwestern American Literature. 42.2 (2017). pp 7-27.

Articles (Refereed) in Progress

Ben-Youssef, F., Ehrenwirth, R. "A Bleeding Rainbow: The Creation of a Vexed Public Sphere at the Shanghai Queer Film Festival." To be submitted to Screen.

Ben-Youssef, F., Murata, K., Asai, R. "Seeing Beauty in a 'Fenced In' Life: Kawase Naomi's An and Dueling Representations of Hansen's Disease." To be submitted to The Journal of Asian Studies.

Varner D., Ben-Youssef, F.. "Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Murder in Leïla Slimani's Chanson Douce: Inversion, Refraction, and the Politics of Imperial Violence." To be submitted to Critical Inquiry.

Chapters (Refereed) in Progress

Ben-Youssef, F., "Duels at the Dinner Table: The Transnational Western and Food in Juzo Itami's Tampopo and Kelly Reichardt's First Cow." Chapter in A Companion to Transnational Westerns. Contract stage with Routledge.

Non-Refereed Publications

Ben-Youssef, F. "Hong Sangsoo's The Woman Who Ran: Finding Pleasure, Kinship, and Solidarity in CCTV." Surveillance & Society. Special Issue on Pleasures of Surveillance. 22. 1 (February 2024). pp. 21-24.

Ben-Youssef, F. "'Holy Incel, Batman!': Post-9/11 Sexuality and White Nationalism in Matt Reeves' The Batman (2022)." SUNY Press Blog. Web (August 23 & September 30, 2022).

Ben-Youssef, F. "Sicario: Day of the Soldado Review." Southwestern American Literature. 44.1 (Fall 2018). pp. 42-44.

Ben-Youssef, F. "トランプ政権下のボーダー・ナラティヴ" ("The Frontiers of Border Narrative under Trump's Presidency"). Translated by K. Hosono and R. Tomizuka. 三田文学 (Mita Bungaku). 130 (Summer 2017). pp. 76-83. Published in translation in Japanese.

Ben-Youssef, F. "That's Something the Viewer Can Choose to See: An Interview with Mike Leigh on Mr. Turner." Bright Lights Film Journal. Web. (July 12, 2015).

Ben-Youssef, F. "Furyo et l'Esthétique de la Torture" ("Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and the Aesthetic of Torture"). L'Avant-Scène Cinéma. 624 (June 2015). pp. 30-35. In French.

Ben-Youssef, F., "Sicario Review," Southwestern American Literature, 41.1 (Fall 2015). pp. 64-66.

Ben-Youssef, F., "Scholarly Response to Steven Gardiner's 'Behold the Man: Heroic Masochism and Mel Gibson's Passion as Masculine Rite of Passage."' Cultural Analysis, 12 (2013), pp. 40-43.