Film History Faculty
Gilberto Perez
Courses: First-year Studies: The Movies and Their Viewers, The Art of Film
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-
Malcolm Turvey
Courses: French Cinema, Film Theory
BA, MA, University of Kent. 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). Book Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2008. Currently working on a book on European avant-garde film of the 1920’s, The Filming of Modern Life, for the October book series. SLC, 2000-