Kurt Lancaster has shot documentaries that have screened nationally and internationally. He has also consulted for the Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, training some of their print journalists in video journalism, as well as shooting and editing documentary journalism pieces. He is also an assistant professor of digital media in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University, where he teaches courses on documentary multimedia production, scriptwriting, and production techniques. Kurt earned his PhD from New York University. His students have gone on to earn video journalism awards, screen documentaries at film festivals, as well as creating independent video companies. Dr. Lancaster's essays and articles on journalism, popular culture, performance, and communication have appeared in the International Journal of Communication, the Performing Arts Journal, Modern Drama, Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of American Culture, and The Christian Science Monitor. His previous books include: The Documentary Journalist: The Art and Craft of Video Journalism for the Web (manuscript completed; proposal submitted and in review).
Building a Home Movie Studio and Getting Your Films Online (Watson Guptill, 2002). Warlocks & Warpdrive: Contemporary Fantasy Entertainments with Interactive and Virtual Environments (McFarland, 1999). "A work of meticulous detail, bounded by academic discipline, that still manages to scream off the page and impart a burning passion for its subject. A prose style that stays thankfully close to good storytelling. mark[s] Kurt Lancaster's arrival as a welcome presence . Will surprise the most inventive thinker." -Neil Nixon, Fortean Times "A significant contribution to the study of merchandise-saturated and commodified worlds we find ourselves visiting at work and play." -Tim Robbins, Interzone Interacting with Babylon 5: Fan Performances in a Media Universe (University of Texas Press, 2001).
"Kurt Lancaster, in his excellent study, concludes that science fiction fans, in this case those of Babylon 5, did indeed empower themselves." -Nicholas Birns, Science Fiction Studies Performing the Force, as co-editor (McFarland, 2001). "A provocative collection." -Interzone ". an extremely interesting introduction to the enormous variety of popular culture audience participation formats that are nowadays thriving in virtual and real environments, and it is a valuable source of information for scholars wishing to get a broad view of a field that is rapidly expanding due to the pervasiveness of information technologies." -Susana Tosca, IT University of Copenhagen, Intensities: the journal of cult media.