Prof. Golder Writes and Directs Documentary “Ballad of a Righteous Merchant”
Professor Herbert Golder wrote and directed the documentary Ballad of a Righteous Merchant, an intimate portrait of legendary, master filmmaker Werner Herzog at work on My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done.
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. Frederick Publishes Essay in “Testing the Margins of Leisure: Case Studies on China, Japan, and Indonesia”
Professor Sarah Frederick has published an essay titled The Leisure of Girls and Mothers: Affective Labor, Leisure, and Taste in the Transnational and Transmedia Adaptations of Stella Dallas in “Testing the Margins of Leisure: Case Studies on China, Japan, and Indonesia”
Prof. Golder Publishes Essay in “Transcendence and Film: Cinematic Encounters with the Real”
Professor Herbert Golder published an article on his film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, titled, “Transcendence and Tragedy in My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done,”
Prof. Foltz Publishes New Research on Digital Cinema
In the most recent issue of Critical Quarterly, Prof. Jonathan Foltz has published new research on the aesthetics of digital video in Harmony Korine’s singular film julien donkey-boy. Prof. Foltz shows how the film, by exploiting the noise and flatness of its DV images, suggests a re-evaluation of the aesthetics of digital cinema, so […]
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 […]
Prof. Liu Publishes Book “Queer Marxism in Two Chinas”
Professor Petrus Liu has published a new book titled Queer Marism in Two Chinas which rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. With Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Liu offers a revision to current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be.
Golder Publishes Article, “Shooting on the Lam”
Professor Herbert Golder publishes article “Shooting on the Lam,” in Werner Herzog’s collection A Guide For The Perplexed
Golder Produces Documentary, “The Lotus That Went to the Sea”
Professor Herbert Golder produces, The Lotus that Went to the Sea, which follows a burgeoning community of Cambodian artists who are creating contemporary art for the first time since the Pol Pot regime put an end to their country’s golden age.
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 […]