Mark Crispin Miller

Mark Crispin Miller is a Professor of Media Culture and Communication at New York University He is the author of several books including Boxed In The Culture of TV 1988 The Bush Dyslexicon Observations on a National Disorder 2001 Cruel and Unusual BushCheneys New World Order 2004 and Fooled Again The Real Case for Electoral Reform 2007 He is also the editor of Seeing Through Movies 1990 and Loser Take All Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy 20002008 2008 He is currently at work on The Marlboro Man An American Success Story which will be published in 2021 Millers essays and articles have appeared in many journals magazines and newspapers throughout the nation and the world and he has given countless interviews worldwide appearing in many documentaries including Consuming Images 1989 The Merchants of Cool 2001 Orwell Rolls in His Grave 2003 and The True Cost 2015 Miller is the editor of Forbidden Bookshelf an ebook series that revives important works now out of print most of which were variously killed at birth Earlier he was the editor of two book series Discovering America published by the University of Texas Press and prior to that Icons of America published by Yale University Press In 2004 Miller wrote Patriot Act a show that he performed for six weeks at the New York Theater Workshop He is currently coproducing Four Died Trying a documentary series on the assassinations of JFK Malcolm X Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr A recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations Miller is on the board of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies an international consortium of scholars and the Alliance for Human Research Protection whose goal is to prevent or correct violations of informed consent in medical research Miller earned his bachelors degree from Northwestern University in 1971 and his doctorate in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1977 Although he specialized in Renaissance literature Miller is best known as a media critic Before joining New York University Miller served as director of film studies at Johns Hopkins University