Professor William Boddy teaches in the department of Communication Studies at Baruch College. He specializes in the field of cinema studies. Professor Boddy received his Honors BA from York University, Toronto, in political science and urban studies and his MA and Ph.D. in cinema studies from New York University. Boddy is the author of New Media and Popular Imagination:  Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004) and Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics  (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990; paperback 1992).

Many of his other publications are listed here.