Jeremy G. Butler

Jeremy G. Butler (born 1954) is a scholar of television and film, an author, and radio show host on Alabama Public Radio. He is a professor emeritus of film studies at the University of Alabama. Butler has also taught at Northwestern University and the University of Arizona. In 1991, he founded the still-active Screen-L mailing list for academic film and television studies. Butler also created and maintains ScreenSite for film/TV studies and ScreenLex, a pronunciation guide.

His University of Alabama profile page says he has a B.A. from Brown University and received an M.A. and PhD from Northwestern University. He wrote a book on television style. He also authored the textbook Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture. He hosts the show All Things Acoustic on Alabama Public Radio.