Faculty Research

Prof. Cazenave “An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah'”

 In her  first book, An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” (SUNY Press, 2019), Professor Jennifer Cazenave undertakes a comprehensive examination of the 220 hours of filmic material Claude Lanzmann excluded from his 1985 Holocaust opus. In retrieving alternative eyewitness accounts captured by the camera but ultimately left on the cutting room […]

Prof. Foltz’s New Book: The Novel After Film

Recently out from Oxford University Press is Prof. Jonathan Foltz’s first book, The Novel After Film.  The Novel After Film is a study of the relation between film aesthetics and the development of the modernist novel.  It offers a substantial reassessment of the paradoxical condition of novelistic practice in which writers have re-imagined the novel […]

Frederick Publishes Article in “Project Muse”

Professor Sarah Frederick has published an article titled Novels to See/Movies to Read: Photographic Fiction in Japanese Women’s Magazines  The article analyzes interactions between text and photographic image in works of photographic fiction (shashin shôsetsu) printed in Japanese women’s magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, including their interaction with cinema and print culture. The essay considers […]