Film History Faculty

BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MA, Princeton University. Author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium and of numerous articles for the London Review of Books, Raritan, The Yale Review, The Nation, The Hudson Review, Sight and Sound, and other publications; recipient of a Noble fellowship for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the Museum of Modern Art, a Mellon Faculty fellowship at Harvard University, the Weiner Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Missouri, and other awards. SLC, 1983–

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–