Janine Marchessault, 1959-

Biography

Janine Marchessault is a professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto. Her research engages with the history of large-screen media from multiscreen to IMAX to media as architecture and VR. She belongs to the CinemaExpo67.ca research group, as well as the transnational history of IMAX (1970–1990). She is the author of Ecstatic Worlds: Media, Utopias and Ecologies (2017) and numerous collections including the Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema, with W. Straw (2019), Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age, with S. MacKenzie (2019), Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67, with M. Gagnon (2014), Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban, with M. Darroch (2014).