Charles Bane

Charles Bane has lived in numerous places all over the country, working variously as a country music disc jockey, an oil refinery demolition specialist, a movie critic, a television producer, an eighth-grade English teacher, and a college professor. His love of film began at the age of six when his parents to him to see Star Wars. He has written, directed, and produced several films through his production company, Better Wings Productions, LLC, including the Remi-Award winning Emergency Room Salvation (2011). He also worked with television personality P. Allen Smith, helping him transition to the internet by producing the web series The Garden Home Challenge with P. Allen Smith (2012). In addition to filmmaking, he has written numerous articles on film that have appeared in Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, Jane Austen and Philosophy, Stephen King and Philosophy, Hollywood's America: Twentieth-Century America Through Film, Stanley Kubrick: Essays on his Films and Legacy, and The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film. He was also included in the collection Papa, PhD: Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy. In 2015, he became an associate professor of film at Harding University in Arkansas, where he lives with his wife, the poet Paulette Guerin.