FACULTY
Mirella J. Affron (Ph.D., Yale University): Italian Cinema, History of Set Design
Stanley Aronowitz (Ph.D., Union Graduate School): American Film; Cultural Studies' Approaches to Film
William Boddy (Ph.D., New York University): Film & Television History; Moving Image Technologies; Media Theory
Royal Brown (Ph.D., Columbia University): Film Music; French Film Since 1950; Myth & Cinema
Jonathan Buchsbaum (Ph.D., New York University): Film & Politics; French Film of the 1930s; Latin American Cinema
Jerry W. Carlson (Ph.D., University of Chicago): French & Spanish Film; Latin American & Caribbean Film; American Independent Cinema; Narrative Theory
Mary Ann Caws (Ph.D., University of Kansas): Art & Text; Translation; English Modernism; Contemporary Aesthetics; Visual Culture
Morris Dickstein (Ph.D.,Yale
University): American Film & Culture; Popular Genres; Directorial Style
Marc Dolan (Ph.D., Harvard University):
Silent and Early Sound Film; The History of Broadcasting (both radio and
television); The Musical and Other Popular Genres; Stars and Other
Industrial Auteurs
Tamara Evans (Ph.D., Ohio State University): German Film
& Cinema
David A. Gerstner (Ph.D., University of
California, Los Angeles): Film Authorship; Queer World Cinema; Queer
Theory
Alison Griffiths (Ph.D., New
York University): Nineteenth Century Visual
Culture; Early Cinema; Museum Studies; Documentary Film; Cultural Theory;
New Media
Heather Hendershot (Ph.D. University of Rochester): American
Film History;
Children's Television; Conservative Media Culture
Peter Hitchcock (Ph.D., The
Graduate School): Literary Theory and Film; Modernism
Robert Kapsis (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley): Historical Reception of Films; The American Film Industry
Wayne Koestenbaum (Ph.D., Princeton University): Film Criticism, Contemporary Filmmakers, Gay & Lesbian Literature & Film, Andy Warhol
William Kornblum (Ph.D., University of Chicago): Comparative Study of Documentary; Film & Video Production
Stuart Liebman (Ph.D., New York
University): French Film Theory & Criticism; Post-World War II German
Cinema; Film & Modernism
Ivone Margulies
(Ph.D., New York University): Aspects of Theatricality in Modern
Postwar Cinema and Contemporary Visual Media; Cinema Verité;
French Modernist Cinema; Women’s Cinema; Experimental Film and Video;
Questions of Realism and the Representation of the Everyday in Cinema.
Paula J. Massood (Ph.D., New York
University): African American Film; Global
Cinema; Contemporary American Film; Feminist Film Theory; Film Aesthetics
and Theory
Joyce Rheuban (Ph.D., New York
University): Weimar Cinema; Post-World War II German Cinema; American
Film Comedy
Michele Wallace (Ph.D., City College): Popular Culture and Film; African American Literature and Film; Gender Studies
Elisabeth Weis (Ph.D. Columbia University): Film Sound Aesthetics; Film Comedy; American Directors