Publications

Books

Elmer, Greg & Opel, Andy (2008). Preempting Dissent in the War on Terror. Arbeiter Ring. More Information...

Opel, Andy. (2004). Micro Radio and the FCC: Media Activism and the Struggle Over Broadcast Policy. Praeger Press. More Information...

Opel, Andy & Pompper, Donnalyn, Eds. (2003). Representing Resistance: Media, Civil Disobedience and the Global Justice Movement. Praeger Press. More Information...

Refereed Publications

Opel, Andy. (2008). From Water Crisis to Water Culture: An Interview with Vandana Shiva. Cultural Studies 22(3-4). More Information...

Opel, Andy. (2006). Corporate Culture Keeps Nature Regular: Super-Citizens, Media and the 'Metamucil and Old Faithful' Ad. Capitalism Nature Socialism 17(3). More Information...

Elmer, Greg & Opel, A. (2006). Looking Back at the Future: Betting, Inevitability and the Survivor Society. Cultural Studies 20(4-5).

Opel, Andy & Templin, Rich. (2005). Is Anybody Reading This? Indymedia and Internet Traffic Reports, Transformations, 10, special issue on alternative media. Read Article Online.

Opel, Andy. (2005). Paradise Lost I & II: Documentary, Gothic and the Monster of Justice. Jump Cut, 47. Reprinted and translated into Greek, (2008). Read Article Online.

Opel, Andy & Smith, Jason. (2004). ZooTycoon: Capitalism, Nature and the Pursuit of Happiness. Ethics and the Environment, 9(2).

Opel, Andy . (2002). Monopoly, The National Parks Edition: Reading Neo-Liberal Simulacra. Book chapter in Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture, Ed. by Mark Meister and Phyllis Japp. Greenwood Press.

Opel, Andy. (1999, Winter). Constructing Purity: Bottled Water and The Commodification of Nature Journal of American Culture, 22(4) Winter 1999. Reprinted (2008) in Cultural Studies: An Anthology, M. Ryan Ed., Blackwell Publishing.

Multi-Media Products

Opel, Andy, (In Production). Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story. A One hour documentary about the video-taped death of 14 year-old Martin Anderson during his first day in a Panama City, Fl sherriff's boot camp. View Video Clip

Opel, Andy. (In Production). The Cargo Bike. 30 Minute narrative video in the Eco-Horror-Comedy Genre.

Gardner, Paula and Opel, Andy. (In Production). Eyes That Don’t See, Hearts That Don’t Feel. One hour documentary profiling survivors of torture who have resettled in the U.S. Produced in cooperation with the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at FSU and Florida Center for the Survivors of Torture.

Opel, Andy (2008). Nine Public Service Announcements on Sustainability. Director/Producer. Nine, 30 second to one-minute pieces produced for Florida State University Sustainable Campus Initiative. View Video Clip.

Opel, Andy and Galloway, Terry. (2008). Tough. 16 minute video collage of performance art piece by Terry Galloway, Produced and Directed by T. Galloway, D. Nudd and A. Opel. Video Production by Opel. To be included in a DVD companion to the book Gay Shame, edited by David Halperin and Valerie Traub, University of Chicago Press. **Refereed** View video clip.

Opel, Andy & Ellison, Amy. (2003). Precogs and Preemption: Minority Report and The Bush Doctrine. An 8 minute video (de) construction. View video.
Competitive Screenings:

●Florida State University Literature and Film Conference, February, 2003.
●Console-ing Passions Conference, New Orleans, LA, May, 2004.

Opel, Andy. (2000). Power. A 7 minute experimental documentary.
Competitive Screenings:

● Duke University Film and Video Documentary Happening, Durham, NC. February 2000.

Opel, Andy. (1998). Dr. Shipsey and The Cows. A 30 minute video documentary produced as my Master’s project at the U. of O.
Competitive Screenings:

● First Place winner in the student competition at the Marco Island Film Festival, Marco Island, FL. $1,000 cash prize. October 1998.
● Fort Worth Film Festival, Fort Worth, TX, October 1998.
● Duke University Film and Video Documentary Happening, Durham, NC, January 1999.

Opel, Andy. (1998). The End of The Ride. A Feature length screenplay about two twenty-something friends who decide to abandon cubicle lives and race across the country hitch-hiking.

● Semi-finalist in the Lonestar Screenplay Competition, 1998.
● Quarter-finalist in the Empire Screenplay Competition, 1998.

Invited Book Chapters

Opel, Andy (In Press). Community Radio. Contribution to the Encyclopedia of Journalism, C. Sterling and D.C. Whitney Eds., Sage Publications.

Elmer, Greg & Opel, Andy. (2006). “Pre-empting Panoptic Surveillance: Surviving the Inevitable War on Terror”, in Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond, D. Lyon Ed., Wilan Publishing. More Information...

Opel, Andy. (2003). Punishment Before Prosecution: Pepper Spray as Post-Modern Repression. In Representing Resistance: Media, Civil Disobedience and the Global Justice Movement, edited by Andy Opel and Donnalyn Pompper. (2003) Praeger Press. More Information...

Refereed Conference Presentations

Opel, Andy (November, 2007). Greening NCA: A Roundtable Discussion on Shrinking the Ecological Footprint of the NCA Annual Convention. Environmental Communication Division of NCA, Chicago, IL. **Panel Organizer**

Opel, Andy & Elmer, Greg (October, 2007). Electrifying Dissent: Mapping Pain Compliance Technologies. Paper presented to the Union of Democratic Communication, Vancouver, BC.

Opel, Andy (February, 2007). Micro Radio and the Media Reform Movement: Looking for Community Connections. Paper present to the Media Studies Interest Group of the Western Communication Association, Seattle, WA.

Opel, Andy (November, 2006). The Memory of Landscapes: An Injury to One and the Persistance of Environmental Injustice. Panel presentation to the Environmental Communication Division of NCA, San Antonio, TX. **Panel Organizer**

McKahan, Jason & Opel, Andy (November, 2006). The Earth's First Soft Drink?: Perrier Bottled Water Advertising in the U.S. Paper presented to the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of NCA, San Antonio, TX.

Opel, Andy (November, 2006). Voyage to Kure: Nature Documentaries, President Bush and Public Policy. Paper presented at the Film and History Conference: The Documentary Tradition, Dallas TX.

Opel, Andy (November, 2005). Depleted Uranium and the Media: Conspiracy, Censorship and the Iraq War. Panel presentation to the Environmental Communication Commission of NCA, Boston, MA.

Opel, Andy & Elmer, Greg (May 2005). Looking Back at the Future: Betting, Inevitability and the Survivor Society. Paper presented to the Philosophy of Communication Division of ICA, New York, NY.

Opel, Andy (November, 2004). Photoshop, Email and Resistance: Bush Parody Posters and the Iraq War. Paper presented to the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of NCA, Chicago, IL. **Panel Organizer**

Opel, Andy (November, 2004). Disciplining Civil Disobedience: Mapping 'Pain Compliance' Technologies at the Miami FTAA Protests. Paper presented to the Political Communication Division of NCA, Chicago, IL.

Opel, Andy & Templin, Rich. (May, 2004). Is Anybody Reading This? Indymedia and Internet Traffic Reports. Paper presented to the Political Communication Division of ICA, New Orleans, LA.

Opel, Andy & Smith, Jason. (May 2004). ZooTycoon: Capitalism, Nature and the Pursuit of Happiness. Paper presented to the Popular Communication Division of ICA, New Orleans, LA.

Opel, Andy . (March, 2004). Paradise Lost I & II: Documentary and the Monster of Justice. Paper presented to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, GA.

Opel, Andy. (November, 2003). Corporate Culture Keeps Nature Regular: Super-Citizens, National Parks and the 'Metamucil and Old Faithful' Ad. Panel presentation for the 2003 NCA convention, Environmental Communication Commission, Miami Beach, FL.

Nudd, Donna Marie; Schriver, Kristina; Opel, Andy. (November, 2003). Don’t Attack Iraq: Audience and the Power of Puppetry in Protest. Panel presentation for the 2003 NCA convention, Visual Communication Commission, Miami Beach, FL.

Opel, Andy. (May, 2003). The Whole World is Sweating: Media Coverage of the Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement . Paper presented to the Popular Communication Division of ICA, San Diego, CA.

Opel, Andy. (November, 2002). A Typology for Media Activism: A Social Movement About Media and Democracy. Paper presented at the 2002 NCA convention, Critical Cultural Studies Division, New Orleans, LA.

Opel, Andy. (November, 2002). Tapping Patriotism: Mapping attempts to link patriotism and efficiency post 9/11. Paper presented at the 2002 NCA convention, Environmental Communication Commission, New Orleans, LA.

Opel, Andy. (November, 2002). Representing Dissent: Media, Discourse, and the Global Justice Movement. Panel organized for the 2002 NCA convention, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, New Orleans, LA. **Panel Organizer**

Opel, Andy. (October, 2002). Media and the Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement. Paper presented at the Union for Democratic Communication Conference, State College, PA.

Opel, Andy. (October, 2002). Looking for Signs of a Media Activism Movement. Paper presented at the Action Coalition for Media Education Summit, Albuquerque, NM.

Opel, Andy. (August, 2002). Representing Micro Radio: Newspaper Coverage of the Micro Radio Issue, 1998- Paper presented at the annual convention of the Association for the Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Miami, FL.

Opel, Andy & Matthews, Denise. (August, 2002). Lights, Camera, Activism: On The Road to a Critical Media Pedagogy. Panel presentation presented at the annual convention of the Association for the Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Miami, FL.

Opel, Andy. (November, 2000). Punishment Before Prosecution: Pepper Spray as Post-Modern Repression.

Paper presented to the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association Conference, Seattle, WA.

Opel, Andy. (August, 2000). Hemp in the News: Social Struggles Over a Controversial Crop. Paper presented to the Cultural and Critical Studies Division of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Phoenix, AZ.

Opel, Andy. (June, 2000). Monopoly, The National Parks Edition: Reading Neo-Liberal Simulacra. Paper presented to the Popular Communication Division at the International Communication Association Conference, Acapulco Mexico. **Awarded Top Student Paper**

Opel, Andy. (June, 2000,). Constructing Purity: Bottled Water and the Commodification of Nature. Paper presented to the Popular Communication Division at the International Communication Association Conference, Acapulco Mexico.

Opel, Andy. (October, 1999). Micro-Radio and the Law. Paper presented to the Union for Democratic Communication Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

Opel, Andy. (August, 1999). Pirate Radio’s Challenge to the FCC: Direct Action and the Judiciary as Tools for Change . Paper presented (with companion video Showdown at the FCC) to the Law Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in New Orleans, LA.

Opel, Andy. (May, 1999). From Activism to Consumption, The Evolution of a Community: The Oregon Daily Emerald’s Framing of the Grateful Dead 1968-1995 . Paper presented to the Popular Communication Division at the International Communication Association Conference in San Francisco, CA.

Book Reviews

Opel, Andy (2007). Structural Change? Environmental Documentary and Globalization. [Review of the films Darwin's Nightmare and Who Killed the Electric Car]. Environmental Communication, v1., n1.

Opel, Andy (2007). Review of Global Citizens: Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization by Marjorie Mayo. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, v3, n2.

Opel, Andy. (2004). Review of Communication, Media, and American Society: A Critical Introduction by Daniel W. Rossides. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, v81, n1.

Opel, Andy. (2004). Review of Beyond Ideology: A Case for Egalitarian Bias in the News, by Reginald Ecarma. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, v81, n1.