Malcolm Turvey

BA, MA, University of Kent, UK. PhD, New York University. Specialization in film and philosophy, film theory, European avant-garde film, film and modernism, classical Hollywood genres, film and emotion. Editor and writer for October; co-editor of Wittgenstein, Theory, and the Arts (Routledge, 2001) and Camera Obscura/Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson (University of Amsterdam Press, 2003). Essays have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Framework, Millennium Film Journal, Film Studies: An International Review, Artforum, Film Theory and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1997), Freud’s Worst Nightmares (Cambridge, University Press, 2003), The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings (Blackwell, 2005), and European Film Theory (Routledge, 2008). Books include: Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2008) and The Filming of Modern Life, a book on European avant-garde film of the 1920s for the October book series. SLC, 2000–