Prof. Foltz Publishes Article on Film Novelizations
In the most recent issue of Modernism/modernity, Prof. Jonathan Foltz has published new research on the neglected literary genre of the film novelization. In the article, Prof. Foltz details the historical origins of the genre as a commercial product, and proceeds to consider the formal and generic questions afflicting the novelization as a distressed re-mediation […]
Prof. Lopes de Barros Publishes New Book, “Ménage Literário, Literary Menage, Ménage Literario”
“Jacques Fux’s writing is characterized by intertextuality, self-reflexiveness, and a ludic (and lucid) stance in relation to his questions about literature and life, fiction and reality. In the short story “Ménage à Trois” and the film Literary Ménage: An investigation into the Writing of Jacques Fux, directed by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Fux evokes or […]
Frederick Publishes Article in “Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media”
Professor Sarah Frederick has published an article titled Girls’ magazines and the creation of ‘shōjo’ identities in the first edition of the “Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media” The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media is a comprehensive study of the key contemporary issues and scholarly discussions around Japanese media. Covering a wide variety of forms and types from newspapers, television […]
Prof. Schwartz Publishes Article in “New German Critique”
Professor Peter Schwartz has recently published an article titled Aby Warburg and Cinema, Revisited in “New German Critique”.
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 […]