Film Studies Certificate Program - GC CUNY The Graduate Center

Professor David A. Gerstner

David A. Gerstner received his Ph. D in the Department of Film and Television at UCLA and is Professor of Cinema Studies.

David A. Gerstner is the author of Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black-Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic (New Black Studies Series at the University of Illinois Press, 2011).

His other books include, Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema (Duke University Press, 2006); The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture (editor, Routledge, 2006: selected as "Best of Reference 2007" by the New York Public Library); and co-editor with Janet Staiger of Authorship and Film (Routledge, 2003).

His writing appears in Film Quarterly, The Stanford Humanities Review, Cine-Action, The Velvet Light Trap, Cultural Critique, and Wide Angle.

His work may also be read in the following anthologies: The Sound of Musicals; The Spike Lee Reader; City that Never Sleeps; Marcel Duchamp and Eroticism; New Zealand Filmmakers; Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment; and Hetero.

http://davidagerstner.blogspot.com