John M. Broughton

John M. Broughton is an American psychologist and professor who specialises in cultural studies, media and visual culture, youth culture, popular culture, gender, and violence. Broughton graduated from Cambridge University with both a BA and Masters of Arts, later earning his PhD at Harvard University. He became an associate professor of Psychology and Education

Early life and education Broughton was raised in a small village 15 miles south of London. His parents were organizers of their community's film society, and he "grew up as a Cinema Paradiso projector boy". and was sponsored by Teacher's College, Adelphi University, Long Island University, and the Glass Institute for Basic Psychoanalytic Research. Most presentations addressed the roots of violence and finding ways to break the cycle. Broughton co-founded the "Film and Education Research Center" with doctoral advisee Kelvin Shawn Sealey. On 26 March 2004, FERA hosted actor and scholar Cornel West of The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions at Teachers College to give a program entitled Film & Education: The Matrix of the Possible. In April 2005, Sealey again worked with Broughton to organise Project Citizen, a series of academic film discussions in talk show format.

As expert Broughton has been quoted as an expert on psychology and media culture in several national publications, including The Observer in 2001, New York Daily News in 2003, the Star-Telegram in 2004, the Baltimore Sun in 2006, and ABC News in 2007.

Selected publications Critical Theories of Psychological Development (Plenum Press) "Smart weapons and military TV" (Technoscience and Cyberculture) "The experience of the father" (Insights) "Hollywood ultraviolence as educator" (Psychoanalysis and Education) "What the transgender child teaches us." (Bank Street College Occasional Papers) Beyond Formal Operations: Theoretical Thought in Adolescence (1997, Teachers College Record, Volume 79)