Rate My Professor Andy Rice

Rice authored the book Political Camerawork: Documentary and the Lasting Impact of Reenacting Historical Trauma (Indiana University Press, 2023), which theorizes simulation documentaries that connect historical trauma—such as Vietnam War films, Iraq War training simulations, and lynching reenactments—to present-day responsibility through performance techniques. His articles on performative documentary, sensory ethnographic film, viewfinderless camerawork, and media pedagogy appear in the Journal of Film and Video, Jump Cut, The Scholar and Feminist Online, Senses of Cinema, and Catalyst. Notable films include Spirits of Rebellion: Black Independent Cinema from Los Angeles (2016, dir. Zeinabu irene Davis, 101 min.), where he co-produced, shot, and edited, earning the 2016 African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary and the 2017 University Film Video Association Best Documentary Feature; Banded (2024) on Midwest bird banding and conservation; Reading Freedom Summer (2020) reflecting on 1964 Freedom Summer letters; and Generation COVID: Coming of Age While Six Feet Apart (2020, 42 min.) made with students. At Miami University, Rice has secured grants for an augmented reality documentary on campus racial history and leads projects like Lived Experiences Through Storytelling and the Inside Hollywood program to foster civically oriented filmmaking.