F&MS Assoc. Prof. Paul Young reappraises his childhood approach to performing magic. This essay was published on the summer 23 edition of The University of Chicago Magazine....

Thursday December 10th at 6:30 PM join Professor Paul Young and his students as they present their final projects in a live Zoom event! The...

Film & Media Studies Department Chair Paul Young will read from his auto-biographic 2016 book Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism and discuss the controversy “If Marvel movies aren’t cinema, what are they?” Monday the 20th at 7PM as part of Cine Salons online program....

A childhood fan of Miller’s Daredevil, Young takes readers on a personal journey as he seeks to reconcile his love for the comic with his distaste for the fascistic overtones of Miller’s controversial later work...

"Lois Weber’s episodic feature film Hypocrites (1915) poses a challenge to one principle that is thought to have guided American cinema toward classical narrative..." writes Professor Paul Young in his essay......

Professor Paul Young's essay/review What We Talk about When We Talk about American Space​, or, Criticism Called and Wants Its Stuff Back can be found in the Fall 2015 issue of American Literary History