David Sterritt, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
June 2022
1 East Chase Street
Apt. 501-502
Baltimore, MD 21202-2574
646-334-3719
djsterritt@gmail.com
CURRENT AND RECENT ACTIVITIES
Editing:
Editor-in-Chief for all issues of Quarterly Review of Film and Video [Taylor & Francis / Routledge]
Editorial Board Member for Hitchcock Annual. Journal of Modern Literature, Journal of Beat Studies. Beat Studies at Clemson University Press/Liverpool University Press
Referee for Manuscripts: Journal of Modern Literature, Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield
Writing:
“His Father’s Eyes: Rosemary’s Baby,” in Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema, ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Regina M. Hansen, New York: Fordham University Press, 2021 [Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
“A Regional Festival with a Global Reach.” Film Criticism vol. 44 no. 2 (2021)
Editorials for Eight Issues of Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Review Essays for Four Issues of Cineaste magazine
Web Exclusive Review Essays for Four Issues of Cineaste.com
Film Articles for Turner Classic Movies.com
In Press: “Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and the Movies,” for The Literary Cinema of Richard Brooks, ed. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey.
In Progress: Revised and Expanded Edition of The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Original Edition: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Broadcast and Internet:
Weekly Shows, David Sterritt with Films in Focus, WHDD-AM/FM (National Public Radio) / RobinHoodRadio.com
Guest on Overnights, ABC Radio, Australia, May 2022
Guest on The Artist’s Podcast, UK, August 2021
Speaking:
Moderator, Panel on “The Future of the Theatrical Experience,” White River Indie Films Festival, Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, Vermont, May 2022
Introduction, Three Minutes: A Lengthening, White River Indie Films Festival, Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, Vermont, May 2022
Miscellaneous:
Annual Meeting, National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress (2020)
Annual Meeting, National Society of Film Critics (2021)
Selection Committee, White River Indie Films Festival, Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, Vermont, January-March 2022
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CURRENT POSITIONS
Positions:
Editor-in-Chief, Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Adjunct Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art
Department of Humanistic Studies
Department of Art History
Professor Emeritus of Theater and Film, Long Island University
Contributing Writer, Cineaste
Editorial Advisory Board, Hitchcock Annual
Editorial Board, Journal of Beat Studies
Editorial Board, Anthem Film and Culture, Anthem Press
Editorial Board, Beat Studies, Clemson University Press/Liverpool University Press
Alternate Member, Library of Congress National Film Preservation Board
Commentator, David Sterritt with Films in Focus, WHDD, RobinHoodRadio.com, National Public Radio
Host and Moderator, The Cinema Club, Avalon Theater, Washington, DC (On Pandemic Hiatus)
Selection Committee Member, White River Indie Film Festival, White River Junction, Vermont
E-Journal Panel, Cine-Excess
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Recent Additions (2019-2022)
Essays for Eight Issues of Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Review Essays for Eight Issues of Cineaste and Eight Issues of Cineaste.com
“Imagery of Religion, Ritual, and the Sacred in Martin Scorsese’s Cinema,” in A Companion to Martin Scorsese, revised edition, ed. Aaron Baker (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021).
“The Beat Minds of Their Generation,” in The Blackwell Companion to American Literature, ed. Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson, and Michael Soto. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2021.
“A Regional Festival with a Global Reach.” Film Criticism vol.45 no. 3 (2021)
“The Guardians of Morality vs. the Master of Suspense.” Hitchcock Annual no. 24 (2021)
“Adare in the Underworld: Suspicious Characters, Discarded Histories.” Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism (UK) (2021)
Guest, Hekayat Al Cinema / Tales of Cinema. “Biographical Films: David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia.” Al Araby TV, London, May 2021.
Guest, The Artists (Indie Filmmakers Podcast) with Suchita Bhhatia. “Hitchcock, Godard and Kiarostami.” The Artists (Indie Filmmakers Podcast), August 2021.
Speaker, Writing Film Reviews and Criticism, University of Iowa, via Zoom, March 2021.
Speaker, Zoom Presentations,The Cinema Club, Washington DC., January-April 2021.
Moderator, Interview with Filmmaker John Gianvito, via Zoom, White River Indie Films Festival, May 2021.
“White Mane” and The Curse of the Cat People” and “Poltergeist” and “A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries,” in For Kids of All Ages: The National Society of Film Critics on Children’s Movies, ed. Peter Keough. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
“Robert Altman: Documentaries, Dreamscapes, and Dialogic Cinema,” in When Movies Mattered, ed. Jonathan Kirchner and Jon Lewis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.
“The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives.” 53: 4 (Winter 2019).
“Neil Simon: Broadway’s King Moves to Hollywood,” in Conversations with Neil Simon, ed. Jackson R. Bryer and Ben Siegel. Jackson: University Press of Missisippi, 2019.
Cineaste: Nineteen Eighty-Four.” (Winter 2019); “The Caretaker.” (Fall 2019); “Notorious.” (Summer 2019); “Some Like It Hot.” (Spring 2019); In progress: “Husbands.” (2020); “Journeys Through French Cinema.” (Summer 2020); “War and Peace.” (Spring 2020); “Louis Malle: Transatlantic Auteur.” (Spring 2020)
Cineaste.com: “The Bostonians.” (Winter 2019); “The Tarnished Angels.” (Fall 2019); “Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here.” (Summer 2019); “Les Parents terribles.” (Spring 2019); In progress: “Martin Scorsese’s Short Films.” (2020); “Tunes of Glory.” (Spring 2020)
Turner Classic Movies: “Countryman.” “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.” “The Man Who Never Was.”
“Adare in the Underworld: Suspicious Characters, Discarded Histories.” Invited presentation in Hitchcock’s Under Capricorn + 70: An international conference to mark the 70th anniversary of Under Capricorn. King’s College, London, UK. September 2019.
Host, Screening of Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento’s The Wandering Soap Opera (La telenovela errante, 2017). Parkway Theater / Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway / Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, July 2019.
Speaker, Panel on “How to View Film,” with Gerd Gemunden and Harriette Yahr. White River Indie Festival, White River Junction, Vermont, June 2019.
Moderator and Interviewer, Q&A with filmmaker Jodie Mack. White River Indie Festival, White River Junction, Vermont, June 2019.
Speaker and Moderator, Presentation of Todd Haynes’s film Safe. White River Indie Festival, White River Junction, Vermont, June 2019.
Knowledge @ Wharton, Sirius XM, 2019
In progress: “Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and the Movies.” For The Literary Cinema of Richard Brooks, ed. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey.
In press: “The Beat Minds of Their Generation,” in The Blackwell Companion to American Literature, ed. Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson, and Michael Soto. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2020.
“Imagery of Religion, Ritual, and the Sacred in Martin Scorsese’s Cinema,” in A Companion to Martin Scorsese, ed. Aaron Baker (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). (Updated and Expanded Version forthcoming in 2020).
Movie: In press: “Adare in the Underworld: Suspicious Characters, Discarded Histories.” (2020)
Hitchcock Annual: “Hitchcock in Flatland.” 2020.
“Ken Loach and Sorry We Missed You.” Featured Speaker (with Mikita Brottman) in Zoom Presentation. White River Indie Festival, White River Junction, Vermont. May 2020.
Related professional activities:
- Editorial Board, New Perspectives on World Cinema, Anthem Press (through 2020)
- Film Critic/Special Correspondent/Staff Writer, The Christian Science Monitor
(1968-2005)
- Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, School of the Arts (1989-2015)
- Chair, National Society of Film Critics (2005-2015)
- Guest Editor, Film Quarterly (2012-2014)
- Co-Chair, University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation
University Seminars, Columbia University (1999-2005, 2010-2015)
- Contributing Editor/Film Critic/National Editorial Advisory Group, Tikkun
(2009-2015)
- Chief Book Critic, Film Quarterly (2009-2014)
- Editorial Board, Cinema Journal (2012-2017)
- Editorial Board, Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2008-2015)
- Contributing Writer, MovieMaker (2007-2013)
- Advisory Board, Film Festival Academy
- Distinguished Visiting Faculty, Goldring Arts Journalism
Newhouse School, Syracuse University (various years from 2006)
- Programming Associate, Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y
New York (2005 – 2007)
- Video Critic, Islands (2000-2003)
- Senior Critic, National Critics Institute/O’Neill Critics Institute,
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Conn. (1994 – 2002)
- Selection Committee, New York Film Festival (1988 – 1992)
- Film Critic, All Things Considered, National Public Radio (1978 – 1980)
- Boston Theater Critic, Variety (1969 – 1973)
- Editor in Chief, Boston After Dark (1969 – 1970)
Books:
Rock ’n’ Roll Movies. Quick Takes. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017
Simply Hitchcock. Great Lives. New York: Simply Charly, 2017
The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America. Directors’ Cuts. London:
Wallflower Press / New York: Columbia University Press, 2014
The Beats: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
(Turkish Edition, 2015)
Spike Lee’s America. America Through the Lens. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2013
- •• Best Baltimore Nonfiction, Baltimore, 2013 •••
The Honeymooners. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television: TV
Milestones. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009
The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget
Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love, ed. with John
Anderson. New York and Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2008
Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader. Jackson: University Press
of Mississippi, 2005
Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2004
Terry Gilliam: Interviews, ed. with Lucille Rhodes. Conversations with
Filmmakers. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004
Robert Altman: Interviews, ed. Conversations with Filmmakers. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi, 2000
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible. The Cambridge Film
Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University, Press, 1999
Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the ’50s, and Film. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1998
Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews, ed. Conversations with Filmmakers. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi, 1998
(Korean-language edition, Emotion Books, 2008)
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock. The Cambridge Film Classics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993.
(Chinese-language edition, Peking University Press, 2007)
(Greek-language edition, Publishing House Paratiritis, 1998)
In Progress: Revised and Expanded Edition of The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Original Edition: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Film and video appearances (selected)
Featured actor, Butterfly Kisses, dir. Erik Kristopher Myers, USA, 2018
“For the Love of Movies,” dir. Gerald Peary, USA, 2008
“Saul Bass: Title Champ,” dir. Gary Leva, USA, 2008
“Erich von Stroheim: The Profligate Genius,” Young Indy Documentaries:
Episode 22: The Hollywood Follies, LucasFilm, 2007
The Critics: Stories from the Inside Pages, dir. Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer,
Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2006
Look Out, Haskell, It’s Real: The Making of Medium Cool, dir. Paul Cronin,
U.K., 2002
The Envelope Please…, dir. Josh Friedman, Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, 1996
Publications (selected):
Thousands of articles on film, theater, music, and other subjects in feature and news pages of The Christian Science Monitor, an international daily newspaper. For titles and articles, see http://www.csmonitor.com or proquest archive.
Articles on film, theater, music, and other subjects in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Denver Post, The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Sunday Magazine, The Rome Daily American (Italy), and many other American and overseas newspapers as syndicated correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor News Service.
Articles in American Film, down beat, World Monitor, Boston Herald Traveler, Creative States, TV Entertainment, Boston Review of the Arts, The Concord (Mass.) Journal, and other periodicals.
Anthology Essays, Book Chapters, Encyclopedia Articles
In progress: “Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and the Movies.” For The Literary Cinema of Richard Brooks, ed. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey.
In press: “The Beat Minds of Their Generation,” in The Blackwell Companion to
American Literature, ed. Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson,
and Michael Soto. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2020.
In press: “Dutchman,” in Reading with Jean-Luc Godard, ed. Kevin J. Hayes and
Timothy Barnard. Montreal: Caboose, forthcoming.
“White Mane” and The Curse of the Cat People” and “Poltergeist” and “A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries,” in For Kids of All Ages: The National Society of Film Critics on Children’s Movies, ed. Peter Keough. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
In contract: “His Father’s Eyes: Rosemary’s Baby,” for Satan & Cinema, ed. Jeffrey
Weinstock and Regina Hansen.
“Robert Altman: Documentaries, Dreamscapes, and Dialogic Cinema,” in When
Movies Mattered, ed. Jonathan Kirchner and Jon Lewis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2019.
“Heroes Are Something We Create: Eastwood’s Biopics,” in Tough Ain’t Enough:
New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood, ed. Lester D. Friedman and David
Desser. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018.
“The Beats and Visual Culture,” for The Cambridge Companion to the Beats, ed. Steven
Belletto (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
“Ralph Bakshi: De-Disneying Movie Animation” and “David Mamet: Profanity,
Flimflam, and the Power of What Happens Next,” in Directory of World
Cinema: American Independent 3, ed. John Berra (Bristol, UK: Intellect Books,
2016).
“Breaking the Rules: Altman, Innovation, and the Critics,” in A Companion to
Robert Altman, ed. Adrian Danks (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).
“Postwar Hollywood: 1947-1967,” in Acting, ed. Claudia Springer and Julie
Levinson (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015).
“In the Movie-Viewing Machine: Essential Cinema and the 1970s,” in Downtown Film and
TV Culture, ed. Joah Hawkins (Bristol, UK/ Chicago: Intellect, 2015).
“The Mahabharata,” “Cotton Mary,” “The Unvanquished,” “The World of Apu,” in
Directory of World Cinema: India, ed, Adam Bingham (Bristol, UK: Intellect
Books, 2015).
“Edward Yang,” in Directory of World Cinema: China, Volume 2, ed. Gary
Bettinson (Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2015).
“Imagery of Religion, Ritual, and the Sacred in Martin Scorsese’s Cinema,” in A
Companion to Martin Scorsese, ed. Aaron Baker (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell,
2014). (Updated and Expanded Version forthcoming in 2020).
“Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical Line of Flight,”
in A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
“Mann and Übermensch: Evil and Power in Michael Mann’s Manhunter,” in
Michael Mann and Philosophy, ed. Steven Sanders, Aeon J. Skoble, and R.
Barton Palmer (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).
“Godard, Schizoanalysis, and the Immaculate Conception of the Frame,” in
Sonimage: The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard, ed. Christina Stajanova and
Douglas Morrey (Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014).
Essays on Belgian Cinema, in Directory of World Cinema: Belgium, co-ed.
Marcelline Block (Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2013).
“Wrenching Departures: Mortality and Absurdity in Avant-Garde Film,” in The
Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema, ed. Murray Pomerance (Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 2013).
Essays on Swedish Cinema, for Directory of World Cinema: Sweden, ed. Marcelline
Block (Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2013).
Essays on French Cinema, for Directory of World Cinema: France, ed. Tim Palmer
(Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2013).
Essays on Indian Cinema, for Directory of World Cinema: India (Bristol, UK:
Intellect Books, 2013).
“American Film Criticism,” in Blackwell’s History of American Film, ed. Roy
Grundmann, Cynthia Lucia, and Art Simon (Malden, MA: Blackwell
Publishing, 2012).
“Wholly Communion: Poetry, Philosophy, and Spontaneous Bop Cinema,” in The
Beats and Philosophy, ed. Sharin N. Elkholy (Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky, 2012).
“Representing Atrocity: September 11 Through the Holocaust Lens,” in
Hollywood’s Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, ed. Daniel
Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson. Contemporary
Approaches to Film and Media Series. (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 2012).
Essays on Chinese Cinema, for Directory of World Cinema: China, ed. Gary
Bettinson (Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2012).
Essays on Spanish Cinema, for Directory of World Cinema: Spain, ed. Lorenzo J.
Torres Hortelano (Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2012).
“Pecunia Olet: Affluence, Effluence, and Obscenity,” written with Mikita Brottman,
in Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism, ed. Loren Glass and Charles Williams
(Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2011).
“From Transatlantic to Warner Bros,” in A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock, ed.
Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing,
2011).
“Schizoanalyzing the Informant,” in The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh,
- R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders. Philosophy and Popular
Culture. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010).
“Morbid Psychologies and So Forth: The Fine Art of Rope,” in Hitchcock at the
Source: The Director as Literary Adaptor, ed. David Boyd and R. Barton Palmer
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011).
“George Clooney: The Issues Guy,” in Shining in the Shadows: Movie Stars of the
2000s, ed. Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance (Piscataway, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 2011).
“Las Vegas: City of the Imagination,” in World Film Locations: Las Vegas, ed.
Marcelline Block (Chicago: Intellect Books, 2011).
“Alfred Hitchcock,” “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “The King of Kings,”
“King Kong,” “Men in Black,” “Vertigo,” in Directory of World Cinema: American
Hollywood 2, ed. Lincoln Geraghty. (Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2015).
“Steven Spielberg.” “Science Fiction.” “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” “Poltergeist.”
In Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood, ed. Lincoln Geraghty
(Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2011).
“Murdered Souls, Conspiratorial Cabals: Frankenheimer’s Paranoia Films,” in A
Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film, ed. Murray Pomerance and
R.Barton Palmer (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011).
“Spellbound in Darkness: Shyamalan’s EpistemologicalTwitch,” in Spoiler
Warnings: Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan, ed.
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
“A Shadow Poet: Michael Haneke,” in Cinema Inferno: Celluloid
Explosions from the Cultural Margins, ed. Robert G. Weiner and John
Cline (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010).
“That Special Okie Southwest Flavor, That Humor,” in Hal Ashby: Interviews, ed.
Nick Dawson (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010).
“Steven Spielberg’s Flesh Fair: Film, Fantasy, and Death Denied,” in The
Many Ways We Talk about Death in Contemporary Society:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Portrayal and Classification, ed. Margaret Souza &
Christina Staudt (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009).
Dozens of Moments, for Defining Moments in Movies, Italian edition, ed. Chris
Fujiwara. (Milan: Il Castoro, 2009).
Five Essays – “Targets.” “Eraserhead” “The Well.” “Will Penny.” “Man on
a String,” in The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on Low-
Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We
Love, ed. David Sterritt and John Anderson (New York: Da Capo,
2008).
“Introduction” (written with John Anderson) in The B List: The National
Society of Film Critics on Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult
Classics We Love, ed. David Sterritt and John Anderson (New York: Da Capo,
2008).
“Ken Jacobs,” in Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work beyond Hollywood, ed.
Michael Atkinson (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008).
Dozens of Moments, in Defining Moments in Film/Movies: The Little Black
Book, ed. Chris Fujiwara (London: Cassell Illustrated, 2007).
“He Cuts Heads: Spike Lee and the New York Experience,” in City That
Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination, ed. Murray
Pomerance (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007).
“Low Hopes: Mike Leigh Meets Margaret Thatcher,” in Fires Were Started:
British Cinema and Thatcherism, second edition, ed. Lester D.
Friedman (London: Wallflower Press, 2006).
“Fuller, Foucault, and Forgetting: The Eye of Power in Shock
Corridor,”” in Cinema and Modernity, ed. Murray Pomerance (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006).
“Festivals” and “Robert Redford,” in The Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film,
ed. Barry Keith Grant (New York: Schirmer, 2006).
“Lumet: Endlessly Energetic,” in Sidney Lumet: Interviews, ed. Joanna E.
Rapf (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006).
“Alphaville: Un Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution,” in
Understanding Film Genres, ed. Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast,
Steven Jay Schneider (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006).
“Liv Ullmann: Norway’s Glittering Gift to World Film,” in Liv Ullmann:
Interviews, ed. Robert Emmet Long (Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 2006).
“Jack Kerouac,” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and
Poetry, ed. Jeffrey Gray (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group,
2005).
“Irréversible: The Backward Gaze,” in The X List: The National Society of
Film Critics’ Guide to the Movies That Turn Us On, ed. Jami Bernard
(New York: Da Capo Press, 2005)
“The Prisoner of Splendor: An Interview with Harvey Pekar,” written with
Mikita Brottman, in Creeping Flesh: The Horror Fantasy Film Book,
Vol. 2, ed. David Kerekes (Manchester: Criticial Vision/Headpress,
2005)
“Representing Atrocity: From the Holocaust to September 11,” in Film and
Television After 9/11, ed. Wheeler Winston Dixon (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2004).
“Allegory and Enigma: Fantasy’s Enduring Appeal,” in Contemporary
Literature Criticism 193 (Oklahoma City: The Gale Group, 2004).
“Shadow of the Vampire,” in Film Review Annual: 2001—
Films of 2000, ed. Jerome Ozer, (Englewood: Film Review
Publications, 2004).
“Introduction” and “Laughs and Deep Themes,” in Terry Gilliam:
Interviews, ed. David Sterritt and Lucille Rhodes (Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 2004).
“Lost in La Mancha: The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of Terry
Gilliam,” written with Mikita Brottman, in Terry Gilliam: Interviews, ed.
David Sterritt and Lucille Rhodes (Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 2004).
“Fargo in Context: The Middle of Nowhere?” in The Coen Brothers’ Fargo,
ed. William Luhr (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
“The Wrong Man,” in The Hidden God, ed. Mary Lea Bandy and Antonio
Monda (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2003).
“L’Humanité,” written with Mikita Brottman, in The Hidden God, ed.
Mary Lea Bandy and Antonio Monda (New York: The Museum of
Modern Art, 2003).
Multiple Titles, The 1,001 Films You Must See Before You Die, ed.
Steven Schneider (London: Quintet Publishing, 2003).
“Hitchcock, Bakhtin, and the Carnivalization of Cinema,” in Framing
Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual, ed. Sidney
Gottlieb and Christopher Brookhouse (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 2002).
“Alfred Hitchcock: Registrar of Births and Deaths,” in Framing Hitchcock:
Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual, ed. Sidney Gottlieb and
Christopher Brookhouse (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002).
“Breathless,” in The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100
Essential Films, ed. Jay Carr (New York: Da Capo Press, 2002).
“Nashville,” in The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100
Essential Films, ed. Jay Carr (New York: Da Capo Press, 2002).
“Do the Right Thing,” in The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’
100 Essential Films, ed. Jay Carr (New York: Da Capo Press, 2002).
“The Personal Is Political for a Chinese Director,” in Frances Gateward, ed.,
Zhang Yimou: Interviews (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
2001).
“Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead,” in Car Crash Culture,
ed. Mikita Brottman (New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001).
“Mike Leigh Calls It as He Sees It,” in Mike Leigh: Interviews, ed. Howie
Movshovitz (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000).
“Introduction” and “Director Builds Metaphor for Jazz in Kansas City,” in
Robert Altman: Interviews, ed. David Sterritt (Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 2000).
“Jane Campion Directs on Instinct,” in Jane Campion: Interviews, ed.
Virginia Wright Wexman (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
1999).
“Introduction” and “Ideas, Not Plots, Inspire Jean-Luc Godard,” in Jean-Luc
Godard: Interviews, ed. David Sterritt (Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 1998.
“Notes: Meredith Monk,” in Meredith Monk, ed. Deborah Jowitt (Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).
“Miéville and Godard: From Psychology to Spirit,” in Jean-Luc Godard’s
Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film, ed. Maryel Locke and
Charles Warren (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993).
“Robert Altman,” in American Directors, ed. Jean-Pierre Coursodon (New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1983).
“Motion Pictures,” in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia Yearbooks, ed.
Robert Halasz (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1981, 1982, 1983).
“Motion Pictures,” in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia Yearbooks, ed.
Albert Bennett. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1979, 1980).
Bibliographies:
“American Independent Film.” Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012.
“Stan Brakhage.” Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2011.
Blogs (selected):
The Huffington Post, 2008, 2009
The Political Film Blog, 2009
Rokovoko, 2006-2007
DVD & Blu-ray commentaries, essays, appearances:
Audio Commentary, Sympathy for the Devil / One Plus One, Abkco, 2018.
“Guerrilla Fantasy,” Booklet Essay for Time Bandits, The Criterion Collection, 2014.
“Too Late Blues,” Booklet Essay for Too Late Blues, Masters of Cinema, UK, 2014.
“A Timeless History,” Booklet Essay for A Brief History of Time, The Criterion
Collection, 2014.
“Breaking the Rules,” Booklet Essay for Breaking the Waves, The Criterion
Collection, 2014.
“Reborn Again,” Booklet Essay for Seconds, The Criterion Collection, 2013.
“Life Is Bittersweet,” Booklet Essay for Life Is Sweet, The Criterion Collection, 2013.
“The White Shadow,” DVD and Booklet Essay for “Lost and Found: American
Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive,” National Film Preservation
Foundation, 2013.
“Brazil: A Great Place to Visit, Wouldn’t Want to Live There,” Booklet Essay for
Brazil, The Criterion Collection, 2012.
“All in the Game,” Booklet Essay for The Game, The Criterion Collection, 2012.
“Wars on Terror,” Booklet Essay for Life During Wartime, The Criterion Collection,
2011.
Appearance, The Master’s Touch: Hitchcock’s Signature Style, in North by
Northwest, 50th Anniversary Edition, Warner Home Video, 2010.
“This Side of Paradise,” Booklet Essay for The Thin Red Line, The Criterion
Collection, 2010.
Appearance, Jean-Luc Godard: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma, in The
Jean-Luc Godard Box Set, Lionsgate, 2008.
Appearance, Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of the Master, in Rear
Window, Universal Legacy Series, 2008.
Appearance, Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock, in Rear Window,
Universal Legacy Series, 2008.
Appearance, Partners in Crime; Hitchcock’s Collaborators, in Rear
Window, Universal Legacy Series, 2008.
Appearance, In the Master’s Shadow: Hitchcock’s Legacy, in Psycho,
Universal Legacy Series, 2008.
“War and Peace,” Booklet Essay for The Two of Us. The Criterion
Collection, 2007.
“Wake Up!” Booklet Essay for Sweet Movie, The Criterion Collection, 2007.
Audio Commentaries, Essential Directors Series – Jean-Luc Godard, Wellspring
Media, 2007.
Essay, Essential Directors Series – Jean-Luc Godard, Wellspring Media,
2007.
Audio Commentary, Weekend, New Yorker Video, 2005.
Essay, Weekend, New Yorker Video, 2005.
Essay, Notre Musique, Wellspring, 2005.
3 Women, Booklet Essay, The Criterion Collection, 2004.
Audio Commentary, Breathless, Winstar TV and Video, 2001.
Audio Commentary, Le Petit Soldat, Winstar TV and Video, 2001.
Audio Commentary, Les Carabiniers, Winstar TV and Video, 2001.
Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper Publications (selected):
Movie
In press: “Adare in the Underworld: Suspicious Characters, Discarded Histories.” (2020)
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
“Presenting Problems: The Short Films of Garrick Duckler: Vol. 1,” 59:6, 2011.
The Journal of American History
“Howl.” 98:1 (June 2011).
Cinema Journal
“Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art,” 51:2 (Winter 2012).
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media
“Wholly Communion: Scenario, Film, Novelization,” 52:1+2 [in vol. 1] (Spring 2011).
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy / Revue de la philosophie français et
de langue français
“Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the Mystical
Line of Flight.” XVIII: 2 (2010): 9-27.
CounterPunch
“A Bad Day for ChickWich – and for Indie Cinema,” 2012
“Screening the Politics Out of the Iraq War.” July 24-26 2009.
The Huffington Post
“Faith! Family! Films! And the Crystal Teddy Goes to…” 12 January 2009.
“Do Film Critics Have a Future? Who Cares?” 31 October 2008.
The Current
http://www.criterion.com/current
“Robert Altman: The Oral Biography.” 2010.
Western American Literature: A Journal of Literary, Cultural, and Place Studies
“The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives.” 53: 4 (Winter 2019).
Journal of Beat Studies
“Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank’s American Cinema.” 5 (2017).
“Texts and Drugs and Rock’n’Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture.” 3 (2014).
Moving Image Source
http://www.movingimagesource.us
“Psycho Analyzed: The Hitchcock classic At 50, still inspiring discussion
and debate.” March 2010.
Tikkun / Tikkun.org
“The Good, the Bad, and the Oscars.” 2013.
“Lincoln: A Review.” 2012
“Dark Days with the Dark Knight.” 2012
“Pinkwashed?” 2012.
“From the Beginning of Time to the End of Days.” 2011.
“Low on Entertainment, Off the Charts on Ideology.” May 13, 2011.
“Personas, Personalities, and Hybrids on the Screen.” March 4, 2011.
“Suspense, Malaise, and the Movies.” 2:14, May-June 2010.
“Hagiopics from Hollywood.” 2:13, March-April 2010.
“Political Pictures.” 23:11, November-December 2009.
“Feeding the Danger Habit.” 23:10, September-October 2009.
“Angels, Demons, MacGuffins, and the Goldbergs.” 23:9, July-August
2009.
“Hollywood’s Holocaust.” 23:8, May-June 2009.
“Wrestling with Real Life.” 23:7, March-April 2009.
“Cherisma.” 23:6, January-February 2009.
New Review of Film and Television Studies
“The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture.” 2013
“Deleuze and World Cinemas.” 2012.
“Schizophrenizing cinema: rhizomatics, dualisms, and the infinite
`and…and…and…’.” 8:1, March 2010.
“Spielberg, Iconophobia, and the Mimetic Uncanny.” 7:1, March 2009.
The New York Times
“On the Road With an Eccentric, Provocative Mom.” Arts & Leisure
(Section 2) May 14, 2000.
“Alienated, Spontaneous, Nonpolitical: Sounds Familiar.” Arts & Leisure
(Section 2), August 29, 1999.
Cahiers du Cinéma
“Optimism, Pessimism.” April, 2005.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
“Revision, Prevision, and the Aura of Improvisatory Art.” 58:2, Spring
2000.
WashingtonPost.com
“Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films.” 30 July 2007.
Film-Philosophy Journal/Salon/Portal
http://www.film-philosophy.com (United Kingdom)
“Visions and Revisions: Hollywood’s Alternative Worlds.” 14:10, 2010.
“Hitchcock, Hume, and the Matrix of Modern Cinema.” 11:3, 2007.
“Godardiana: A Reply to Marcia Landy.” 6:31, 2002
“Bressonians on Bresson.” 5:21, 2001.
“Speaking and Writing about Godard: A Response to Nochimson and
Sutton.” 4:8, 2000.
Film International
“A Time to Love and a Time to Die.” 2014.
“Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations.” 2013.
“Naked.” 2012.
“Festival Report: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012.” 2012. (Written with Mikita Brottman)
“When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade.” 2012.
“Will Success Spoil Rock Hudson?” 9:6, 2011.
“Eight Films by Kenji Mizoguchi.” 9:5, 2011.
“L’Argent.” 9:1, 2011.
“Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain.” 7:4, 2009.
“The First Films of Samuel Fuller.” 7:3, 2009.
“Regular Lovers.” 6:3, 2008.
“Filmosophy” 6:2, 2008.
“The Rifleman.” 4:5, 2006.
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (Canada)
“Kerouac, Artaud, and the Baroque Period of the Three Stooges.” 31:4,
December 1998.
The Chronicle of Higher Education/The Chronicle Review
“At 50, Hitchcock’s Timeless Vertigo Still Offers a Dizzying Array of
Gifts.” 54:40. June 13, 2008. (cover article)
“DVD Access to the Avant-Garde.” 52:26. March 3, 2006. (cover article)
“Film, Philosophy, and Terrence Malick’s The New World.” 52:18. January
6, 2006. (cover article)
“An Inspired Collection Honors a Founder of the Indie Movement.” 51:19.
January 14, 2005.
“Offbeat Directors’ Sophistication Isn’t Always Accompanied by Emotional
Maturity.” 51:12. November 12, 2004.
“For Director Mike Leigh, the Personal and Political Are One and the
Same.” 51:7. October 8, 2004.
“Touching the Void in Our Lives,” written with Mikita Brottman. 50:49.
August 13, 2004.
“Spider Reveals a More Nuanced Cronenberg,” written with Mikita
Brottman. 49:21. January 23, 2003.
“Allegory and Enigma: Fantasy’s Enduring Appeal,” written with Mikita
Brottman. 48:17. December 21, 2001.
“Hollywood’s Metaphors,” written with Mikita Brottman. Essay in
“Reflections on the Fractured Landscape: September 11, 2001, and Its
Aftermath.” 48:5. September 28, 2001.
“Coppola, Apocalypse Now, and the Ambivalent 70’s.” 47:47. August 3,
2001.
“How `Festival Overload Syndrome’ Affects Critics.” 46:48. August 4,
2000.
“40 Years Ago, Breathless Was Hyperactive Anarchy. Now It’s Part of the
Canon.” 46:31. April 7, 2000.
Arts & Letters Daily
aldaily.com
“DVD Access to the Avant-Garde.” March 2006.
Hitchcock Annual
“Hitchcock in Flatland.” 2020.
“Hitchcock in the Archives and Among His Peers.” 2017.
“The Destruction That Wasteth at Noonday: Hitchcock’s Atheology.” 2011.
“After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality.” 2006-2007.
“Alfred Hitchcock: Registrar of Births & Deaths.” 1997-1998.
“The Diabolic Imagination: Hitchcock, Bakhtin, and the Carnivalization of
Cinema.” 1992.
Film Quarterly
Must We Kill the Thing We Love? Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films
of Alfred Hitchcock.” 2014.
“Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War.” Film Quarterly,
2014.
“From the Guest Editor.” 67:1, 2013.
“François Truffaut: The Lost Secret.” 67:1, 2013.
“Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film, 2002-2012.” 66:4, 2013.
Also published in 2012 and 2013: “Zona.” “The Cinema of Tarkovsky: Labyrinths of Space and Time.” “Film: A Very Short Introduction.” “The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture.” “Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director.” Et cetera.
“A Companion to Michael Haneke,” 65:3, 2012.
“A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form and Death in
Classical Hollywood Cinema, 65:2, 2012.
“Days of Heaven and Waco: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.” 65:1, Fall
2011.
“On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis
Frampton and Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs. 65:1, Fall 2011.
“Books on Film: Moving Viewers, Violent Affect, and Doubting Vision.” 64:4,
Summer 2011.
“Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism.” 64:3, Spring 2011.
“Four Books About Terrence Malick.” 64:2, Winter 2010-2011.
“Contemporary Film Directors.” 64:1, Fall 2010.
“Cléo de 5 à 7 and 8½.” 63:4, Summer 2010.
“Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King and The World and Its
Double: The Life and Work or Otto Preminger.” 63:3, Spring 2010..
“Six Books About Scorsese.” 63:2, Winter 2009-2010.
“Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Gertrud: The Moving Word.”63:1, Fall 2009.
“Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony.” 62:3, Spring 2009.
“The Films of Kyzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image and The Cinema of
Kyzysztof Kieslowski: Variations on Destiny and Chance.” 59:2. Winter
2005-2006.
“Irreversible,” written with Mikita Brottman. 57:2. Winter 2003.
“Cineaste
In progress: “Husbands.”
“Journeys Through French Cinema.” (Summer 2020)
“War and Peace.” (Spring 2020)
“Louis Malle: Transatlantic Auteur.” (Spring 2020)
“Nineteen Eighty-Four.” (Winter 2019)
“The Caretaker.” (Fall 2019)
“Notorious.” (Summer 2019)
“Some Like It Hot.” (Spring 2019)
“Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood.” (Winter 2018)
“The Awful Truth.” (Fall 2018)
“From the Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader.” (Fall 2018)
“Fritz Lang’s Silent Cinema: Far-Flung Geographies, Omniscient Masterminds,
And the Laws of Life and Death.” (Summer 2018)
“Election.” (Spring 2018)
“Stalker.” 43:1 (Winter 2017)
“His Girl Friday and The Front Page.” 42:4 (Fall 2017)
“I Am Curious (Yellow).” 42:4 (Fall 2017)
“The Exterminating Angel.” 42:3 (Summer 2017)
“Macbeth.” 42: 2 (Spring 2017)
“Muriel, or the Time of Return.” 42:1 (Winter 2016)
“Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies.” 41:4 (Fall 2016)
“The Manchurian Candidate” 41:4 (Fall 2016)
“Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.” 41:3 (Summer
2016)
“Bitter Rice.” 41:3 (Summer 2016)
“Faust: A German Folktale.” 41:2 (Spring 2016)
“Breaker Morant.” 41:1 (Winter 2015)
“Wolf Hall.” 40:4 (Fall 2015)
“The Soft Skin.” 40:3 (Summer 2015).
“Burroughs: The Movie.” 40:1 (Winter 2015)
“The Tragedy of Macbeth.” 40:1 (Winter 2014)
“The Man from Laramie.” 39:4 (Fall 2014)
“From the Curved Screen to the Flat Screen: Cinerama Adventures Galore!” 39:3
(Summer 2014)
“Particle Fever.” 39:3 (Summer 2014).
“Inside Llewyn Davis.” 39:2 (Spring 2014) (cover article)
“I Married a Witch and The Beauty of the Devil.” 39:2 (Spring 2014)
“The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology.” 39:1 (Winter 2013)
“The Films of Lionel Rogosin: Volumes 1 and 2.” (2013)
“Beats, Beatniks, and Beat Movies.” 39:1 (Winter 2013)
“Masaki Kobayashi: Against the System.” 38:4 (Fall 2013)
“Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema.” 38:3 (Summer 2013)
“Rosemary’s Baby.” 38:3 (Summer 2013)
Confounding the Plausibles: Louis Feuillade’s Epic Crime Serials.” 38:2 (Spring
2012)
“Sokurov: Early Masterworks.” 38:2 (Spring 2012)
“Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema.” 37.4 (Fall 2012)
“Cabin in the Woods.” 37:4 (Fall 2012)
“United Red Army. 37:3 (Summer 2012)
“Conversation Piece.” 37:2 (Spring 2012)
“Three Colors: Blue, White, Red.” 37:1 (Winter 2012)
“Cul-de-Sac.” 37:1, Winter 2011.
“The Prowler.” 36:3, Fall 2011.
“Mickey One.” 36:2, Spring 2011.
“And Everything Is Going Fine.” 36:2 (Spring 2011).
“Los Angeles Before Hollywood: Journalism and American Film Culture, 1905 to 1915 and
The Complete History of American Film Criticism.” 36:1 (Winter 2010)
“Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story.” 35:4 (Fall 2010)
“New Lives for Nontheatrical Films on DVD.” 35:3 (Summer 2010)
“The Red Riding Trilogy.” 35:3 (Summer 2010)
“Rembrandt’s J’accuse.” 35:2 (Spring 2010)
“The Dead.” 35:2, Spring 2010
“Trumbo.” 35:1 (Winter 2009)
“Wise Blood.” 34:4 (Fall 2009)
“The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema.” 34:3 (Summer 2009)
“Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Patriotism: The Rite of Love and Death.” 34:2
(Spring 2009)
“Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.” 34:1 (Winter 2008)
“The Fire Within and The Lovers.” 34:1 (Winter 2008)
“Bonnie and Clyde.” 33: 4 (Fall 2008).
“Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks.” 33:3 (Summer 2008)
“Days of Heaven.” 33:3 (Summer 2008).
“Les Enfants terribles.” 33:2 (Spring 2008).
“Late Ozu.” 33:1 (Winter 2007)
“The 400 Blows.” 32:1 (Winter 2006).
“Kind Hearts and Coronets.” 31:3 (Summer 2006).
“Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side.” 31:2 (Spring 2006)
“Unfaithfully Yours.” 31:2. (Spring 2006)
“Burden of Dreams.” 31:1 (Winter 2005).
“John Cassavetes: A Filmmaker Under the Influence.” 30:4 (Fall 2005)
“Power Trip.” 29:2 (Spring 2004)
“Hell House.” 28:1 (Winter 2002).
“Monty Python: Lust for Glory.” (Written with Lucille Rhodes) 26:4 (Fall
2001).
Essay in “Film Criticism in America Today: A Critical Symposium.” 26:1
(2001).
“Shadow of the Vampire.” 25:4 (2000)
“Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism.” 25:3 (July 2000)
“David Sterritt Replies.” 25:3 (July 2000)
“Man on the Moon.” 25:2 (March 2000) (cover article)
“Being John Malkovich.” 25.2 (March 2000)
“The Source.” 24:4 (September 1999)
Cineaste.com
In progress: “Martin Scorsese’s Short Films.”
“Tunes of Glory.” (Spring 2020)
“The Bostonians.” (Winter 2019)
“The Tarnished Angels.” (Fall 2019)
“Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here.” (Summer 2019)
“Les Parents terribles.” (Spring 2019)
“Rocco and His Brothers.” (Winter 2018)
“No Down Payment.” (Fall 2018)
“Terror in a Texas Town.” 43:1 (2017)
“Ghost World.” 42:4 (2017)
“The Lovers on the Bridge.” 42:3 (2017)
“The Quiet Man.” 42:2 (2017)
“Aferim!” 41:4 (2016)
“Under Fire.” 40:3 (Summer 2015)
“Level Five.” 40:2 (Spring 2015)
“High School Confidential!” 37:1 (2014)
“On the Bowery & Come Back, Africa.” 37:2 (2012)
“The Killing.” 36:4 (2011)
“In the City of Sylvia.” 36:3 (2011)
“Sweet Smell of Success.” 36:2 (2011)
“Classic Educational Films.” 36:2 (2011)
“3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg.” 36:1 (2010)
“Lubitsch in Berlin: Fairy-Tales, Melodramas, and Sex Comedies.” 35:4 (2010)
“Trumbo on Trumbo: An Interview with Christopher Trumbo.” 35:1 (2009)
“A Grin Without a Cat.” 34:4 (2009)
“Albert Maysles.” 34:3 (2009)
“Primo Levi’s Journey.” 34:2 (Spring 2009)
“Four Alain Resnais Films on DVD.” 33:4 (Fall 2008)
“Class Relations.” 33:3 (Summer 2008)
“European Short Films: Special U.S. Edition.” (Spring 2008)
The Political Film Blog
politicalfilm.wordpress.com
“The Hurt Locker (2009), Cultural Politics and Uncritical Critics.” 25 July
2009.
PopMatters
“Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives.” July 2008.
“The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film Noir (1940-1949).
March 2008.
“Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism.” February 2008.
“Best of…” capsules. January 2008.
“James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography.”
October 2007.
“Hitchcock and Philosophy: Dial M for Metaphysics.” August 2007.
“Gangster Film Reader.” July 2007.
“The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead
to Mulholland Dr.” June 2007.
“Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares.” May 2007.
“Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at
the American Film Institute.” May 2007.
“Abel Ferrara.” April 2007.
“The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography.” March 2007 (front
page feature).
“The Rough Guide to Westerns.” February 2007.
“What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold
War America.” January 2007.
“Cursed From Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr.”
October 2006.
“Chris Marker.” September 2006.
Sexuality and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
“Henry James’s Most Beloved Boy.” 9:4 (Fall 2005).
Turner Classic Movies http://www.tcm.com
2020 and Subsequently: “Hotel Rwanda.” “American Pop.” “Paragraph 175.” “The Man Who Never Was.” “Countryman.” “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”
2019: “Waiting Women.” “Ceddo.” “Il bidone.” “News from Home.” “Liv & Ingmar.” “King of Jazz.” “Countryman.” “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”
2018: “Antonia’s Line.” “Blue Sky.” “Chloé in the Afternoon.” “Tampopo.” “The Best of Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures.” “Brothers.” “Tamango.” “Dawson City: Frozen Time.” “Unseen Cinema: The Devil’s Plaything.” “It’s Always About the Story: Conversations with Alan Ladd, Jr.” “Portrait in Black.” “Trouble Man.” “Inferno.” “Profound Desires of the Gods.” Et cetera.
2017: “Hombre.” “Losing Ground.” “Love Is Colder Than Death.” “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.” “Black Like Me.” “Face of Fire.” “Oregon Passage.” “Torch Song Trilogy.” “The Emigrants.” “Love Among the Ruins.” “A Warm December.” “The Wife Takes a Flyer.” “The Strawberry Statement.” “Dont Look Back.” “Fitzcarraldo.” “The Curse of the Werewolf.” “The Night of the Strangler.” “Hollywood on Trial.”
2016: “Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler.” “The Whalers.” “Sea Scouts.” “Operation Undersea.” “Executive Action.” “Green Eyes.” “The Voice That Thrilled the World.” “Vitaphone Mini-Musicals.” “Vitaphone Bands.” “Vitaphone Potpourri.” “Vitaphone Shorts.” “Mabel Normand Shorts.” “I Was Happy Here.” “Flowers and Trees – The Pied Piper – Old King Cole.” “Veiled Aristocrats – We Work Again.” “Oscar Wilde.” “The Guilty Generation.” “Love Is a Ball.” “Boat Builders.” Tugboat Mickey.” “Davy Crockett and the River Pirates.” “Those Calloways.” “Midnight Madness.” “Disneyland Around the Seasons.” “A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood.” “Ten Nights in a Bar-Rom.” “Birthright.” “Master Minds.” “Spook Chasers.” “Native Land.” “Night and Fog.” “Love My Dog.” “Dog Days.”
2015: “History on Trial” (Program Essay, TCM Classic Film Festival (2015). “Much Ado About Nothing.” “Too Much Johnson.” “The Battle of Russia.” “Prelude to War” “Know Your Ally: Britain.” “The Golden Coach.” The Verdict.” Walt & El Grupo.” “The Story of the Animated Drawing.” “Bulldog Drummond’s Peril.” “The Living Desert.” “Spend It All.” “The Hunters.” “Murderer’s Row.” “Coming!! Snafu.” “Booby Traps.” “The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.” “The Grim Game.” “Daughters of the Dust.” “Araya.” “Losing Ground.” “The Half-Breed.” “The Grasshopper and the Ants.” “Rescue Dog.” “Corn Chips.”
2014: “Santiago.” “The Last Command.” “An Act of Murder.” “Sallah.” “Zulu Dawn.” “July 14.” “Purple Noon.” “High Anxiety.” “Clear All Wires!” “On Again-Off Again.” “The Runaway Bride.” “Went the Day Well?” “Twenty-Four Eyes.” “Someone to Love.” “Gentleman’s Agreement.” “Santa’s Workshop.” “On Ice.” “Chip an’ Dale.” “The Sand Pebbles.”
2013: “Lionel Rogosin.” “La Pointe courte.” “The Mark.” “Aaltra.” “La Jetée.” “Le niotti bianche.” “Un Chien andalou.” “Pierre Étaix.” “Cairo Station.” “Lost and Found.” “The Suitor.” “Happy Anniversary.” “The Wind Journeys.” “A New Leaf.” “Late Autumn.” “This Above All.” “You Were Meant for Me.” “The Rains of Ranchipur.” “Born Reckless.” Bed and Board.” “The Woman Next Door.” “Day for Night.” “Green Grass of Wyoming.” “Come Back, Africa.” “Blood and Sand.”
2012: Romeo and Juliet. Diary of a Country Priest. The Razor’s Edge. The Last of the Mohicans. Mohammad: Messenger of God. Kings Go Forth. Love in the Afternoon. Black Hand. Twelve O’Clock High. Pretty Poison. Wings. Storm Warning. Shoot First. Artists and Models. “The Colditz Story.” “The Rising of the Moon.” “The Garden of Evil.” “Pickpocket.” “Night and the City.” “The Flight of the Phoenix.” “Wings.” “Storm Warning.” “Artists and Models.” “Black Hand.” “The Power and the Glory.” “Two Against the World.” “The Return of Frank James.” “Crumb.” “Steel Against the Sky.” “The Brave One.” “The Chapman Report.” “Germany Year Zero.” “Profile of Danny Kaye.” “The Jean Arthur Drama Collection.”
2011: Jew Süss. Maria Chapdelaine. Howards End. Little Dorrit. Salt of This Sea. Gettysburg. The Colditz Story. Oliver Twist. Priest of Love. The Thief of Bagdad. King Richard and the Crusaders. “Green Grass of Wyoming.” White Mane. Z. Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan. My Uncle Antoine. Last Summer. My Pal Trigger. Home Before Dark. North to Alaska. I Live My Life. Niagara. Bitter Rice. High Pressure. Battling Butler. My Blue Heaven.
2010: “Autumn Sonata.” “The Blind Woman of Sorrento.” “Babbitt.” “The Day I Became a Woman.” “Let There Be Light.” “Abraham Lincoln.” “Breathless.” “Zoo in Budapest” “Dangerous Exile.” “The Bad Sleep Well.” “Magnum Force.” “Sinful Davey.” “Shadows.” “Ryan’s Daughter.” “The History of Hollywood.” “The Magic Box.” “The Birth of a Nation.” “Young Tom Edison.” “Always Leave Them Laughing.” “Viva Zapata!”
2009: “Eréndira ikikunari.” “The Exiles.” “55 Days at Peking.” “Cry, the Beloved Country.” “Elmer Gantry.” “Ruby Gentry.” “Mondays in the Sun.” “Same Old Song.” “Dead Reckoning.” “The Harder They Fall.” “J.W. Coop.” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” “Shadow.” “How the West Was Won.” “Juke Girl.” “Lovers and Lollipops.” “The Avenging Conscience.”
2008: “Moolaadé.” “The Bitter Tea of General Yen.” “Look Back in Anger.” “The Wings of the Dove.” “The End of the Affair.” “The Pumpkin Eater.” “La Vie en rose.” “Amistad.” “The Man with a Cloak.” “Where’s Poppa?” “The Man from Down Under.” “Dr. Monica.” “Only Two Can Play.” “Swing High, Swing Low.” “Street Girl.” “They Gave Him a Gun.” “Young at Heart.” “The Fabulous Dorseys.” “Crossroads.” “Blind Alley.” “Union Station.”
2007: “Killer of Sheep.” “Here Comes the Navy.” “Man Push Cart.” “The Smart Set.” “Tous les matins du monde.” “Kes.” “Robinson’s Garden.” “The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez.” “The Fire Within.” “Gaily, Gaily.” “Big Jake.” “Will Penny.” “David and Lisa.” “Cruel Story of Youth.” “Man on a String.” “Brotherly Love.” “The Howards of Virginia.” “The Angels Wash Their Faces.” “Prince of the City.” “The Fox.” “Gallant Journey.” “True Confessions.” “All That Jazz.” “Woyzeck.” “The Informer.”
With Mikita Brottman:
2007: “The Cranes Are Flying.” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” “The Silence of the Lambs.” “The Goddess.” “Where the Heart Roams.” “Otomo.” “Ladies in Retirement.” “Gideon of Scotland Yard.” “The Big Carnival/Ace in the Hole.” “Island in the Sky.” “The Well.” “Ginger and Fred.” “The Saint Takes Over.”
2006: “Hail Mary.” “All the King’s Men.” “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” “Petulia.” “The Naked Spur.” “American Madness.” “Motion Picture Masterpieces.” “Four Shorts by George Sidney.” “Two shorts by Buster Keaton.”
MovieMaker
“Taking It Personally.” 21:109, Summer 2014.
“Talking with Sofia Coppola.” 2013.
“Remembering Peter Yates.” 18:92, Spring 2011.
“Taxi Driver Rides On.” 18:91, Winter 2011.
“New Waves in Moviemaking, Then and Now.” 16:84, Fall 2009.
“Steven Soderbergh Starts a Revolution.” 79:16, Winter 2009. (cover
article).
“Guerrilla Moviemaking: Benicio Del Toro connects with Che Guevara any
which way he can.” 79:16, Winter 2009. (cover article).
“Hollywood Then and Now: Is the Media Murdering Our Most Talented
Movie Stars?” 76:15, Summer 2008).
“Gus Van Sant Reaches His Formative Years.” 73:15, Winter 2008.
“Remember the Titans: Ingmar Bergman and Michangelo Antonioni leave
behind two of cinema’s greatest legacies.” 72:14, Fall 2007.
“The Music Man: With Capone Rising and Leningrad, beat goes on for
legendary maestro Ennio Morricone.” 72:14, Fall 2007.
“Retribution for a Working Class Moviemaker.” 68:14, Spring 2007.
“Year of the Indie.” 13:63, Summer 2006.
“Beyond Brokeback: Has Gay Cinema Entered the Mainstream?” 13:62,
Spring 2006. (cover article).
“The Ecstasy of Truth: Werner Herzog Seeks New Horizons, Coalitions, and
Ways of Making Movies.” 12:59, Summer 2005. (cover article).
Senses of Cinema (Australia)
http://www.sensesofcinema.com.au
“A Reflection.” (Written with Mikita Brottman) 7, December 2001.
“Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead.” 14, June 2001.
“Report on the 4th Bermuda International Film Festival.” 14, June 2001.
“Taste of Kiarostami.” 9, September-October 2000.
“Renaldo & Clara Meet John Cage: Aleatory Cinema and the Aesthetics of
Incompetence.” 5, April 2000.
“Permanent Ghosts: Cinephilia in the Age of the Internet and Video – Essay
3.” 4, March 2000.
Top Ten. Senses of Cinema Archive.
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
“Godard, Gorin, and Company.” 35:4 (2018).
“The Best of 2017.” 35:3 (2018).
“The Wooster Group.” 35:2 (2018).
“Haskell’s Spielberg, Insdorf’s Has.” 35:1 (2017).
“Experimental Cinema Old and New: Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery
of the Invisible and On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film.” 34:8 (2017).
“Early Female Filmmakers (and California Noir).” 34:7 (2017).
“Project Shirley.” 34:6 (2017).
“Geopolitical Rarities in California.” 34:5 (2017).
“The Best of 2016.” 34:3 (2017).
“Race Movies” Pioneers of African-American Cinema.” 34:2 (2017).
“Bad Mixings: Dirty Harry, Social Anomaly, and the Gospel of Health-Mindedness.”
34:2 (2015).
“Classical Cinema: Milton on Film and Black & White Cinema: A Short History.” 34:1
(2017).
“Abbas Kiarostami, 1940-2016.” 33:8 (2016).
“In Praise of the Regional Film Festival.” 33:7 (2016).
“Puzzle Pictures.” 33:5 (2016).
“Hitchcock à la Carte by Jan Olsson.” 33:4 (2016).
“The Best (and Worst) Films of 2015.” 33:3 (2016).
“Chantal Akerman, 1950-2015.” 33:2 (2016).
“Flicker Alley.” 33:1 (2016).
“Consumed: A Novel by David Cronenberg.” 32:8 (2015).
“Thomas Hart Benton and the Hollywood Epic.” 32:7 (2015).
“Manoel de Oliveira, 1908-2015.” 32:6 (2015)
“Altman.” 32:5 (2015)
“Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema.” 31:1 (2012).
“A Previously Unpublished Interview with Andrew Sarris.” 30:1 (2012).
“Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-Garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth
Century.” 28.4 (2011).
“Porgy and Bess, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Love Streams.” 27:5, December
2010.
“The Cinema of Britain and Ireland.” 26.1 (2008).
“Time Destroys All Things: An Interview With Gaspar Noé.” 24:4, (2007).
“The Future is Digital Cinema”: An Interview with Arturo Ripstein and Paz
Alicia Garciadiego,” 21:1 (2004).
“Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic.” 17:4 (2000).
Undercurrent
http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/index.htm
“Film Festivals – Then and Now.” 6, April 2010.
“Targets.” 6, April 2010.
“Gideon’s Day.” 5, May 2009.
“Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film.” 4, October 2008.
“Film, Philosophy, and Terrence Malick.” 2, July 2006.
Beliefnet
“H.G. Wells Meets 9/11: Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. July 2005.
21st C: The World of Research at Columbia University
“Words and Meaning in the Age of Images.” May 1998.
Nerve
“Ranked: Terry Gilliam Films From Worst to Best.” November 2011.
Film Comment
“Abbas Kiarostami.” 52:5, September-October 2016.
“8 1/2 Women.” 37:1, January-February 2001.
“State and Main.” 36:6, November-December 2000.
“With Borrowed Eyes.” 36:4, July-August 2000.
“The Idiots.” 36:2, March-April 2000.
“The End of the Affair.” 36:1, January-February 2000.
“A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries.” 34:5, September 1998.
“Featuring…Jeffrey Jones, Peter Riegert.” 25:6 (November-December
1989).
Cinema Scope (Canada)
“Werckmeister Harmoniak.” 4, Summer 2000.
“Cinema Years 90 Nine Zero: Godard in the Nineties.” 2, Winter 2000.
Ventures in Research
“Defining the Situation: Brando, Role-Playing, and the Western as
Performance Art.” 2001.
“Screening the Holocaust: Night and Fog to Schindler’s List.” 1997.
Blimp: Zeitschrift für Film (Austria)
“Film Culture.” 29, Summer 1994.
“Avant-Garde Film: Recent Trends and Key Works.” 20, Summer 1992.
Stagebill
“A Talk With the Film Society of Lincoln Center.” 1995.
Islands
Video reviews, 2001-3: “Horrors of Spider Island.” “Boom.” “Under
Suspicion.” “Cast Away.” “The Thin Red Line.” “Before Night Falls.”
“The Widow of St-Pierre.” “Jurassic Park III.” “The Wicker Man.”
“Pearl Harbor.” “What Time Is It There?” “Lilo & Stitch.” “Rabbit-
Proof Fence.” “Bend It Like Beckham.” “Sex and Lucia.” “Step Into
Liquid.” “Whale Rider.” And others.
“The Reef, Up Close.” 23:2, March 2003.
Book reviews, 2002: “Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images.” “It
Happened in Manhattan: An Oral History of Life in the City During the
Mid-Twentieth Century.”
“A Brighter Day Dawns.” 20:7, November 2000.
City Paper (Minneapolis)
“Order of the Day.” 23:1111, March 20, 2002.
IfcRant
“Moses & Me: An Interview With Michael Moore.” (Written with Mikita
Brottman) September-October 2002.
The Festival Daily (Toronto International Film Festival)
Columnist, daily Page 1 column, 2002
“Reflections on movies a year after Sept. 11.” 7:3 (September 11, 2002).
IndieWire
“Critical Consensus: Ann Hornaday and David Sterritt Discuss Shirley Clarke’s
Newly Restored The Connection.” (Written with Ann Hornaday and Eric Kohn),
Film reviews (Written with Mikita Brottman), Cannes International Film
Festival, 2002.
Film reviews (Written with Mikita Brottman), New York Film Festival,
Lincoln Center, 2002.
“A Master and His Embattled Epic; Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York.
(Written with Mikita Brottman) December 2002.
Village Voice
Commentary in “Take Six: The Annual Film Critics Poll,” 2004.
National Society of Film Critics
nsfc.zap2it.com/nsfc/cda/index.jsp
Assorted film annotations, 2005.
Rokovoko: A Zine of Arts & Living
Rokovoko.com
The Cinema Page. 2008.
Rokovoko: The D.C. Zine of Arts & Letters
Rokovoko.blogspot.com
Film in Focus/Movies in Brief. 2007.
“Critic’s Notes: The Maryland Film Festival – 2007.” May 2007.
“Warhol—Complicated in His Implications.” September 2006.
Film Scouts
Asssorted articles and reviews, 1995- .
Facets Multi-Media
http://www.facets.org/features/celebrityfaves/celebfavess/cfsterritt
“10 movies that influenced me”
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
“An interview with filmmaker William Greaves.” 2001.
Simply Charly
Simply Hitchcock – “Not for the Birds: David Sterritt Zooms in on the
Mystery and Mastery of Hitchcock’s Movies.” 2008
Lectures and Presentations (selected):
“Ken Loach and Sorry We Missed You.” Featured Speaker (with Mikita Brottman) in Zoom Presentation. White River Indie Festival, White River Junction, Vermont. May 2020.
“Adare in the Underworld: Suspicious Characters, Discarded Histories.” Invited presentation in Hitchcock’s Under Capricorn + 70: An international conference to mark the 70th anniversary of Under Capricorn. King’s College, London, UK. September 2019.
Host, Screening of Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento’s The Wandering Soap Opera (La telenovela errante, 2017). Parkway Theater / Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway / Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, July 2019.
Speaker, Panel on “How to View Film,” with Gerd Gemunden and Harriette Yahr. White River Indie Festival, White River Junction, Vermont, June 2019.
Moderator and Interviewer, Q&A with filmmaker Jodie Mack. White River Indie Festival, White River Junction, Vermont, June 2019.
Speaker and Moderator, Presentation of Todd Haynes’s film Safe. White River Indie Festival, White River Junction, Vermont, June 2019.
Skype Presentation on Film Criticism. Department of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa, April 2019.
Speaker, “Far From Vietnam.” 1968 on Film. Johns Hopkins Film and Media Studies Program. Parkway Theater, Baltimore, October 2018.
Speaker, “On the Waterfront.” The National Philharmonic, Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, September 2018.
Lecture, “Red Riding: The Yorkshire Ripper on Film.” RipperCon: Biennial Jack the Ripper – True Crime Convention. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, April 2018.
Presentation, “The Editor’s Role in Journalism.” Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, February 2018.
Lecture, “The Ripper, the Lodger, and Hitchcock’s Existential Outsider.” RipperCon: Biennial Jack the Ripper – True Crime Convention. France Hall, Maryland Historical Society, April 2016.
Discussant, “True Crime versus Fictional Crime.” RipperCon: Biennial Jack the
Ripper – True Crime Convention. France Hall, Maryland Historical Society,
April 2016.
“Clint Eastwood, Politics, and the Empty Chair.” The New Mercury Readings, The Windup Space, Baltimore, March 2015.
“Kammerer, Carr, and the Beats.” The New Mercury Readings, The Windup Space,
Baltimore, June 2014.
“Bad Mixings: Dirty Harry, Social Anomaly, and the Gospel of Health-Mindedness.”
University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Columbia
University (2014)
Respondent, The Current Fate of Experimental Films of the 1960s and 1970s in a
Digital Age,” presentation by Wheeler Winston Dixon, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln. University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation,
Columbia University (2015)
Speaker, “Thomas Hart Benton and American Storytelling.” Peabody Essex Museum,
Salem, Mass., June 2015)
“Spike Lee’s America.” CityLit Festival, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, 2013.
Speaker, “Alfred Hitchcock and The White Shadow,” by invitation of Senator Chris
Dodd and The Right Honourable Mike Moore. Motion Picture Association of
America, Washington, D.C., April 2012.
Evening with Waltz with Bashir. In conjunction with exhibition “Bezalel on Tour.”
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, February 2012.
Panel on For the Love of Movies, with Gerald Peary, Michael Sragow, Jed Dietz.
Maryland Film Festival. Falvey Hall, Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of
Art, Baltimore, April 2012
Reading, “Kammerer, Carr, and the Beats.” The New Mercury Readings, The Windup Space, Baltimore, June 2014.
“True Crime, Vernacular Film, and the Corporation as Psychopath.” Panel on “Imagining True Crime: An American Genre.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Baltimore, October 2011.
“The Ripper, the Avenger, the Outsider.” Panel on “The Ripper and ‘Outsider’ Issues and Themes.” Jack the Ripper Through a Wider Lens: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Drexel University, Philadelphia, October 2011.
Speaker, “Robert Altman and A Prairie Home Companion,” with Ed Lachman. The Lee Strasberg Institute, New York, May 2011.
Speaker, “For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.” With Gerald Peary and Jonathan Rosenbaum. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2011.
Moderator, Evening with Jürgen Prochnow and Das Boot. The Avalon Theater, Washington, DC, August 2011.
Moderator, Discussion with Ortwin Freyermuth. Burke Theater, Heritage Center Navy Memorial, August 2011.
Speaker, Workshop on “Academic Film and Media Studies Publishing Today.” Conference of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, March 2011.
Respondent (off program), Panel on “When Good Pets Go Bad: Eco-Horror’s Third Wave.” Conference of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, March 2011.
Respondent, “Michael Haneke and the Discontents of Western Culture.” Paper by Christopher Sharrett, University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Faculty House, Columbia University, 2011.
“Soderbergh, Schizoanalysis, and Cryptocinema.” Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, New York, 2010.
“Godard, Schizoanalysis, and the Immaculate Conception of the Frame.” Panel on “Godardian Legacy in Philosophy,” Conference on SonImage: The legacies of Jean-Luc Godard. University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2010.
Speaker, Panel on For the Love of Movies with Anne Thompson, Richard Schickel, John Powers, Ella Taylor, Peter Rainer, Gerald Peary. Billy Wilder Theater, Los Angelesm March 2010.
“Twilight in Tokyo: Ozu, Hollywood, and the Poetics of Film Noir.” Panel on “Fifty Years of Cinema Studies, Fifty Years Since Film Noir” in Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, 2010.
Speaker, Panel on “Film Criticism,” with Stuart Klawans, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Heather Hendershot. Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2010.
“Writing About Film: Styles, Themes, and Variations.” Workshop in Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, 2010.
“Being and Becoming: The Actual, the Virtual, and Avatar.” Engaged Humanities Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif., 2010.
“Arthurian Myth, Legend, and Romance.” Presentations at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif., 2010.
“Twilight in Tokyo: Ozu, Hollywood, and the Poetics of Film Noir.” Panel on “Fifty Years of Cinema Studies, Fifty Years Since Film Noir.” Formally accepted by Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Tokyo, 2009. (Conference canceled due to pandemic.)
“Sound Waves: Minimalist Music, Structural Film, and the Prelinguistic Real.” Panel on “Sounds of Music, Film and Psychoanalysis” in Interdisciplinary Conference on Daring to Speak: Languages Spoken and Unspoken, International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, Seattle, 2009.
“An Evening with David Sterritt: Su and Todd – Bourgeois Families, Avant-Garde Films.” BU Cinematheque. Boston University, 2009.
“The Symbolic Language of Cinema.” Engaged Humanities Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif., 2009.
“Myth and Symbol in Film.” Engaged Humanities Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif., 2009.
“Depth Psychology and Documentary Film.” Presentations at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, Calif., 2009.
“Cocteau, Cinema, and Psychology.” Presentation at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, Calif., 2009.
“Representing Atrocity: 9/11 Through the Holocaust Lens” in Conference on Stars of David: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, Arizona State University, 2008.
“Steven Spielberg’s Flesh Fair: Film, Fantasy, and Death Denied.” Panel on “Death and Representation” in The Austin H. Kutscher Memorial Conference: The Pulse of Death Now, University Seminar on Death, Columbia University, New York, 2008.
“The Destruction That Wasteth at Noonday: Frenzy, Theodicy, and Horrendous Evil,” with Mikita Brottman. Panel on “Hitchcock and Morality” in Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, 2008.
“New York City in Cinema.” Dutch Open Studio. Times Square Art Center, New York, 2008.
“Spielberg, Iconophobia, and the Mimetic Uncanny,” with Mikita Brottman. International Conference on Spielberg at Sixty. University of Lincoln, England, 2007.
“Pecunia Olet: Obscene Amounts of Money,” with Mikita Brottman. Panel on “Bad Language” in Obscenity: An Interdisciplinary Discussion, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 2007 Humanities Symposium, University of Iowa, 2007.
Speaker, Panels on “Introduction to the Current State of Film Criticism,” “Traditional and Evolving Models of Film Criticism,” and “The Future Outlook for Film Criticism in the United States” in Beyond Thumbs Up: A Critical Look at Film Criticism, Seminar of the Coolidge Corner Theatre and Cineaste, Brookline, Mass., 2007.
“Pecunia Olet,” with Mikita Brottman. Humanities Research Seminar, Baltimore, 2007.
Presentation on Psycho. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, 2007.
Presentation on Gilles Deleuze and Experimental Film. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, 2007.
“Spontaneous Bop Playwriting: Pull My Daisy Meets The Beat Generation.” Featured lecture in “The 1950’s, the Beat Generation, & the Power of Expression.” O.C. Tanner Symposium, Utah State University School of the Arts, 2006.
Speaker, Panel on The Da Vinci Code, University Seminar on Studies in Religion, Columbia University, New York, 2006.
“Fear and Loathing in Thatcher’s England: Mike Leigh in the 1980s.” Panel on “Fragmentation and Estrangement: Space, Form and Family in the Films of Mike Leigh” in Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, London, 2005.
Co-Chair (with Mikita Brottman), Panel on “Fragmentation and Estrangement: Space, Form and Family in the Films of Mike Leigh.” Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, London, 2005.
“The Aesthetics of Netporn: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Primitive.” Panel on “Porn Meets Brain: Netporn Theory” in The Institute of Network Cultures Conference on “The Art and Politics of Netporn,” Amsterdam, 2005.
“Cinephilia, Cinemania, Cinema.” Presentation to University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Columbia University, New York, 2005.
Speaker, Panel on Gattaca and Bioethics, Center for Bioethics and Society for Law, Health, and Bioethics, et al, Roone Arledge Cinema, Columbia University, 2004.
Speaker, Panel on “Mel Gibson’s Film, The Passion of the Christ,” Columbia University Seminars on Studies in Religion, Religion in America, and Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, 2004.
Respondent, “The Hagiopic and the Conservative Agenda,” paper by Pamela Grace, University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Faculty House, Columbia University, 2004.
“An Experiment in Time: Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible,” with Mikita Brottman.
Panel on “Images of Apocalypse” in Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee, January 2003.
“Representing Atrocity: From the Holocaust to 9/11.” Presentation in Panel on “Images of Suffering.” Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, 2003.
“Noé Stands Alone: Sex, Death, and Destiny in Irreversible.” Presentation in Panel on “Auteurs and Aesthetics.” Born to Be Bad 2: Trash Cinema Conference and Film Festival, University of California at Berkeley, 2003.
“Eye Myths: Emotion in Abstract Film,” with Mikita Brottman. Lecture at
University Seminar on Love Studies, Earth Institute/Center for the
Study of Science and Religion, Columbia University, 2003.
“High Art, Low Art, Hitchcock’s Art.” Lecture at Maryland Institute College of Art, February 2003.
Presentation on Steven Spielberg and A.I., The Earth Institute/Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Roone Arledge Cinema, Columbia University, 2003.
“Three Infernal Jokes: Laughter, Horror, and Film,” with Mikita Brottman.
Panel on “Film Comedy Today.” Conference of the Modern Language Association, N.Y., 2002.
“Fuller, Foucault, and Forgetting: The Eye of Power in Shock Corridor.”
Presentation in Panel on “Violence, Horror, Marginality.” Conference on
Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee, January 2002.
“In Memoriam.” Presentation delivered in Panel on “The World Trade Center Disaster and the Media.” University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Columbia University, February 2002.
Respondent, “Warhol and James Dean,” paper by Roy Grundmann,
University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Faculty
House, Columbia University, April 2002.
“What’s Wrong With Robin Williams?,” with Mikita Brottman. Presentation at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference, Panel on “Reconfiguring
Celebrity Ideology: Readings Against the Grain,” Denver, May 2002.
Co-Chair (with Mikita Brottman), Panel on “Reconfiguring Celebrity Ideology: Readings Against the Grain,” at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference, Denver, May 2002.
“Tragedy and Representation From the Holocaust to 9/11.” Lecture at conference on “War and Peace: The Reality,” Long Island University, November 2002.
“Modernism, Postmodernism, and Godard.” Lecture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 2001.
“Acrostics, Evasions, Theopathies: Freud and the Supernatural in Nabokov’s `The Vane Sisters,’ ” with Mikita Brottman. Presentation to Modern Language Association annual conference, Panel arranged by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, New Orleans, December 2001.
“Identity and Self-Representation: Cinematic Challenges and Opportunities.” Keynote Address, Conference of American Jewish Film Festivals, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Washington, D.C., November 2001.
“Wavelength Meets Four Organs: Repetition, Attentuation, and Gradual Process in Film and Music.” Presentation delivered at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference. Panel on “Film and the Avant-Garde in the ‘60s and ‘70s: Neglected Works, New Perspectives,” Washington, D.C., 2001.
“Film and the Transcendent: Thoughts and Observations,” with Mikita Brottman. Presentation delivered to Religious Faith and Literary Art: Art &
Soul Conference, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2001.
“Movies, Media, and Morality.” Presentation delivered to University Seminar on Moral Education, Columbia University, N.Y., 2001.
“What Role Should European Cinema Play in a Globalized Movie Industry?” Presentation delivered in Panel on “Defining European Cinema’s Identity,” Symposium on “European Cinema and Globalization: Cultural and
Commercial Challenges,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2000.
Moderator, Panel on “International Trade of a Cultural Good: The Case of
Cinema,” Symposium on “European Cinema and Globalization: Cultural and
Commercial Challenges,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2000.
“Renaldo & Clara Meet John Cage: Aleatory Cinema and the Aesthetic of
Incompetence.” Presentation delivered at Society for Cinema Studies
annual conference Panel on “Giving Hollywood the Slip(page): The
Carnivalesque in Musical Movies.” Chicago, 2000.
Co-Chair (with Martha P. Nochimson), Panel on “Giving Hollywood the Slip(page): The Carnivalesque in Musical Movies,” at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference. Chicago, 2000.
“The Spiritual Impulse in American Avant-Garde Film.” Lecture delivered at symposium on Art & Soul: Religious Faith and Literary Art, Baylor
University, Texas, February 2000.
“Terry Gilliam: Imagemaker.” Lecture delivered (with Lucille Rhodes) in C. W. Post Honors Program and Merit Fellowship series, Long Island University, N.Y., March 2000.
“High Art, Low Art, Hitchcock’s Art.” Lecture delivered at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999.
“Body and Soul in Godard’s Je vous salue Marie.” Paper delivered at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference. Panel on “Film and Metaphysics,” West Palm Beach, Florida, 1999.
Chair, Panel on Critical Perspectives, “Hitchcock: A Centennial Celebration,” conference presented by New York University. Plenary Session with Peter Wollen, James Naremore, et al, Directors Guild Theater, N. Y. C., 1999.
“Kerouac’s Desolation Angels: Film, Buddhism, and the Beat Sensibility.” Paper delivered at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference, Panel on
“Buddhism and Cinema,” chaired by David E. James, La Jolla, California, 1998.
Moderator and Organizer, Colloquium on Film Criticism, Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, New York, 1998.
“Defining the Situation: Brando, Role-Playing, and the Western as
Performance Art.” Paper delivered in Ventures in Research Seminar
Series, C.W. Post Campus/Long Island University, 1998.
“Politics, Poetics, Paradoxes: The Films of Godard and Company.”
Lecture delivered in Dickstein-Gottlieb Lecture Series, Sacred Heart
University, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1997.
“Alfred Hitchcock: Registrar of Births & Deaths.” Paper delivered at
Conference on The Late Alfred Hitchcock: Re-Viewing Hitch With Twenty-
Twenty Vision, Plenary Session, Baylor University, Austin, Texas, 1996.
“Critics, Christianity, and CinemaScope: Reviewing The Robe.” Paper
delivered at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference. Panel on “Film
and the Religious Subject,” University of North Texas, Dallas, Texas, 1996.
“Spontaneous Bop Filmmaking: Stan Brakhage Meets the Beat Generation.”
Paper delivered to Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and
Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., 1996.
“Opera and Film.” Lecture delivered to The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center, N.Y., 1995.
“Documenting the Holocaust: Night and Fog to Schindler’s List.” Paper
delivered in Ventures in Research Seminar Series, Long Island University,
1995.
Respondent, “Visconti and Verga,” paper by Noa Steimatsky,
Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary
Interpretation, Film Study Center, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., 1995.
“Avant-Garde Film: Genet, Ahwesh, Sanborn, and Smith.” Lecture at
Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1992.
“Trends in Contemporary Film.” Lecture delivered at Principia College, Elsah, Ill., 1990.
Respondent, “Eternal Verités,” paper by William Rothman, Beyond
Document Seminar, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass., 1989.
“Godard, Miéville, and The Book of Mary.” Lecture delivered at conference on Hail Mary, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass., 1987.
Program Notes and Essays:
“Alfred Hitchcock’s The White Shadow,” program notes, Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2011.
“A Tribute to Terry Gilliam,” program essay. Marrakech Film Festival, 2011.
“The Ecstasy of Truth: Werner Herzog Seeks New Ways of Making
Movies.” San Francisco International Film Festival Program Guide,
April 2006; San Francisco Film Society Awards Night program, April
2006.
Program annotations, Museum of the Moving Image/American Museum of
the Moving Image, 2000-2006.
“The Passenger.” Press Notes Essay for Michelangelo Antonioni film, Sony
Pictures Classics, 2005.
“Note of Menace.” The Film Watch, Telluride Film Festival, 2004.
“Last Year at Marienbad.” American Museum of the Moving Image,
February 2001.
“From the 2000 Chairman.” New York Film Critics Circle, 2001.
“Topsy-Turvy.” New York Film Critics Circle, 2000.
“Terrence Malick.” New York Film Critics Circle, 1999.
“Music and Film.” San Francisco International Film Festival, 1998.
“Views of Merchant Ivory: 3 Continents, 14 Films.” Retrospective, 1998.
“Warren Sonbert: Man With a Movie Camera.” Museum of Modern Art,
1994.
“David Thewlis.” New York Film Critics Circle, 1994.
Program annotation, Mill Valley Film Festival, California, 1993.
“Ten Years of the Next Wave.” Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1992.
Program and promotion annotations, New York Film Festival, Lincoln
Center, 1988-1992
“New Music and Meredith Monk.” San Francisco Symphony Magazine, San
Francisco, 1982.
Liner Notes:
Our Lady of Late, composed and performed by Meredith Monk, Wergo
Spectrum CD, 1997; Wergo Spectrum Records, 1985.
Programming / Curating:
Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater, A Beat Celebration!, 2004
American Museum of the Moving Image, Critical Passions, 2001
Critical Review Committee, The Unseen Cinema: American Independent
Film, 1893-1941, Anthology Film Archives/Deutsches Filmmuseum,
1999-2000
Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., The Films of Jean-Luc Godard, 1999
Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater, N. Y., Jean-Luc Godard’s Passion,
1999
Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., Mad to Be Saved, 1998
New York Film Festival, Selection Committee, 1988-1992
Juries and grant/award panels:
Juror, Film Critics International Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury, Palm Springs
International Film Festival, 2017
Judge, Monthly Student-Film Contest
Arts & Academe, The Chronicle of Higher Education (2011)
First-Round Judge, Annual Editorial Awards Contest, Association of
Alternative Newsweeklies, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Final-Round Judge, Annual Editorial Awards Contest, Association of
Alternative Newsweeklies, 2008
Juror, Documentary awards, Newport International Film Festival, 2007
Selection Committee, Gotham Film Awards, documentary category,
Independent Film Project, New York, 2006, 2004
Member, Artistic Committee, Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards in the
Arts, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2006, 2003
Juror, “We Love New York” Documentary Feature Jury, Tribeca Film
Festival, New York, 2005.
Member, Artistic Advisory Panel, Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards in
The Arts, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, 2005,
2001
Juror, “New York, New York” Narrative Feature Jury, Tribeca Film
Festival, New York, 2004
Member, Avant-Garde Masters Grants Panel, National Film Preservation
Foundation, 2003
Juror, Film Critics International Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury, Moscow
International Film Festival, 2002
Juror, Film Critics International Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury, Viennale—
Vienna International Film Festival, 2000
Juror, Golden Gate Awards Grand Prize Jury, San Francisco International
Film Festival, 2000
Juror, Grand Prize Jury for IFC2000 Student Film Competition,
Independent Feature Project, New York, 2000
Juror, Student Academy Awards, preliminary competition, sponsored by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, conducted at American
Museum of the Moving Image, N.Y., 2002, 2000
Juror, Film Critics International Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury, Toronto
International Film Festival, 1999
Jury member, Mixed Messages film and video competition, New School for
Social Research/New School University, N.Y.C., 1997
Jury member, Screen International Magazine, Cannes Film Festival, 1991-94
Film festivals:
Delegate, Sheffield Doc/Fest. Sheffield, England, June 2012
Speaker, Panel on For the Love of Movies, with Gerald Peary, Michael Sragow, Jed
Dietz. Maryland Film Festival. Falvey Hall, Brown Center, Maryland Institute
College of Art, Baltimore, April 2012
Faculty, Goldring Arts Journalism at the Toronto International Film Festival,
2008
Moderator and interviewer, “An Evening With Werner Herzog,” Castro
Theater, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2006
Moderator, “Visions of Reality: Werner Herzog and Frederick Wiseman,” with
Werner Herzog and Fred Wiseman, House of Docs Program, Sundance Film
Festival, Park City, Utah, 2005
Moderator, Panel on “What’s Jewish in Jewish Humor,” Brooklyn Jewish
Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2005
Introduction to The Manchurian Candidate, Central Park Film Festival,
Central Park Conservancy, N.Y., 2004
Moderator, Panel on Hollywoodism: Jews, Hollywood and the American
Dream, Brooklyn Jewish Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music,
2004.
Moderator, Panel on My Architect with Nathaniel Kahn, Brooklyn Jewish
Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2004.
Moderator, Press conferences, Toronto International Film Festival, 2003
Moderator, Evening with Haskell Wexler, Philadelphia Film Festival, 2003
Speaker, Panel on “Car Crash Culture.” Born to Be Bad 2: Trash Cinema
Conference and Film Festival, University of California at Berkeley, 2003
Moderator, Panel on “Combating Racism Through Cinema,” with Stanley
Crouch, Abbey Lincoln, and Michael Roemer, Brooklyn Jewish Film
Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2002
Speaker, Panel on “The Role of Film in the Development of a National
Culture,” Bermuda Society of the Arts, Bermuda International Film
Festival, 2002
Moderator, Panel on “How Current Events Are Shaping the Business of
Film Production in Israel,” Israel Film Festival, N.Y., 2002
Moderator, Evening with Lewis Klahr, Toronto International Film Festival,
September 2001.
Speaker, Panel on “Role of the Press in the Marketing of Independent
Films,” Bermuda International Film Festival, 2001
Moderator and host, Career Tribute to Norman Jewison, Lake Placid Film
Forum, N.Y., 2001
Moderator, Panel on “Novel to Screen,” with Russell Banks, William
Kennedy, and Stephen Schiff, Lake Placid Film Forum, N.Y., 2001
Moderator and lecturer, Evening on Mae West, Mercy College Treasure
Chest Film Festival, N.Y.C., 2001
Moderator and lecturer, “Robert Beavers Spotlight,” film series in Toronto
International Film Festival, Cinematheque Ontario/Art Gallery of
Ontario, 2000
Moderator and host, Career Tribute to Milos Forman, Lake Placid Film
Forum, N.Y., 2000
Moderator, Panel on “Acting and Independent Film,” with Cliff Robertson
And Buck Henry, Lake Placid Film Forum, N.Y., 2000
Moderator, Panel on “Short Films,” Lake Placid Film Forum, N.Y., 2000
Host and Interviewer, Career Tribute to Richard Dreyfuss, World Film
Festival, Montreal, 1999
Speaker, Panel on The Wooster Group and Avant-Garde Video, New York
Video Festival, Lincoln Center, N.Y.C., 1999
Introductory speaker, Evening with Johan van der Keuken, San Francisco
International Film Festival, California, 1999
Moderator, Panel on Film Criticism, with Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell, and
Peter Rainer, Miami Film Festival, Florida, 1999
Speaker, Panel on “Festivals for the Millennium,” Avignon/New York Film
Festival, N.Y., 1999
Introductory speaker, Gregory Nava film screening, Official Selection,
World Film Festival, Montreal, 1998
Moderator and Interviewer, Afternoon with Stan Brakhage, Conversations
series, Telluride Film Festival, Colorado, 1998
Moderator, Screenwriting Seminar, Mill Valley Film Festival, California,
1998
Moderator, Micro Meeting on Independent Cinema, Toronto International
Film Festival, 1998
Lecture on Brecht and Film, American Theater Festival, Long Island
University, 1999
Speaker, Panel on Film Criticism, Huntington International Independent
Film Festival, Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, N.Y., 1998
Speaker, Symposia on Film Criticism, International Cinema, etc., World
Film Festival, Montreal, 1993-94, 1996-97
Speaker, Panel on Film Criticism and Independence, Avignon/New York
Film Festival, French Institute/Alliance Française, 1998
Speaker, Festival of Diamonds on Film, American Museum of Natural
History, 1997
Moderator, Micro Meeting on Film Criticism and the Motion-Picture
Industry, Toronto International Film Festival, 1997
Speaker, Panel on Hollywood, Cleveland International Film Festival, 1997
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with Mike Leigh, Conversations Series,
Telluride Film Festival, Colorado, 1996
Speaker, Seminar on Film Criticism, Philadelphia Film Festival, 1996
Speaker, Seminar on Film Criticism, Miami Film Festival, Florida, 1996
Speaker, Panel on Film Criticism, Mill Valley Film Festival, California,
1995
Speaker, Film Critics Panel, with Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell, et al,
Sarasota French Film Festival, Florida, 1995
Featured in Interviews and Articles (selected)
Interview in Mark Hay, “Can Hard-Core Porn Be High Art?” Vice, 10 May 2017
Interview/review, “The B List,” Kirkus Reviews: Specials/Reference 4:11, 1
September 2008.
Full-length article/review, “Killer B’s: New Book Celebrates The So-Called
Lower Rung of Auteurs,” Baltimore City Paper, 29 October 2008.
Interviewed in Film Threat, July 2004.
Featured in Kevin Lewis, “James Ivory: Golden Rooms With Views,” DGA
Magazine, January 2001.
Featured in CNN report on Key Cinema Club, Washington, D.C., 1994.
Full-length interview article, “The Movies – Sorting Things Out,” Christian
Science Sentinel 95:35, 1993.
Archive:
Collected film criticism from The Christian Science Monitor housed by invitation in Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Additional activities (selected):
Presentations on current films, Talk Cinema
Lincoln Center, N.Y.C.; AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center,
Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Boston; Bryn Mawr Film Institute,
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Voorhees, N.J.; State University of New
York at Purchase. 1994-present.
Moderator, Evenings with Garrison Keillor, Robert Altman, Richard
Linklater, Steve Buscemi, Wim Wenders, Terry Zwigoff, Daniel
Clowes, Mary Harron, and Max Minghella, Makor/Steinhardt Center of
the 92nd Street Y, New York, 2006.
Speaker, Panel on “Breaking the Rules,“ O.C. Tanner Symposium, Manon
Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall, Utah State
University, 2006.
Moderator, Panel on “The Best and Worst of 2005,” Makor/Steinhardt
Center of the 92nd Street Y, New York, 2006.
Lecture on Beat Generation documentary, O.C. Tanner Symposium/Utah
Humanities Council, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University,
2006.
Lecture on “The New Thought,” Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore, 2006.
Speaker, Panel on “O’Neill on the Screen,” Sixth Annual Eugene O’Neill
Celebration: O’Neill on Film, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center,
Waterford, Conn., October 2005.
Inaugural presentation, “Critics Choice,” Avon Theater Film Center,
Stamford, Conn., 2005
Presentation on John Boorman and political film, Feature Film Seminar
Series, The Town Hall, N.Y., 2005
Presentation on Shakespeare and Film, 92nd Street Y/Makor Center, N.Y.,
2005
Lecture on film criticism, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore,
2005
Presentations on Contemporary Film, Baylor Communication in New York
Program, Baylor University, The Lamb’s Theater, New York, 2005,
2004
Lecture on Thomas Szasz and Pharmocracy, Maryland Institute College of
Art, Baltimore, 2005
Moderator, evening with John Travolta, Screen Actors Guild, 2004
Lecture on Holocaust Film, Drew University, New Jersey, 2004
“Stanley Kubrick and Lolita,” in “Great Performances: Movies Selected by
the New York Critics Circle,” American Museum of the Moving Image,
N.Y., 2004
Moderator, discussion with Michel Gondry, Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker
Series, Roone Arledge Cinema, Columbia University, 2004
Moderator, evening with Catalina Sandino Moreno and Maria Full of Grace,
Screen Actors Guild, 2004
Presentation on sex, lies & videotape, in “Passion, Pornography, and
Partners” program, Makor/Steinhardt Center, 92nd Street Y, N.Y.C.,
2004
Presentation on French film, Key Sunday Cinema Club, Boston, 2004
Lecture, “The `New Thought’ and Its Legacy,” Maryland Institute College
of Art, Baltimore, 2004
Presentation on J.M. Barrie and Finding Neverland, Great Neck Arts Center,
N.Y., 2004
Speaker, Panel on Art: Transgression and Transformation, American Theatre
Festival, Long Island University, 2004
Moderator, Panel on Capturing the Friedmans, with Andrew Jarecki and
Jesse Friedman, 92nd Street Y–Makor/Steinhardt Center, N.Y.C., 2003
Presentation on Philip Roth and The Human Stain, Great Neck Arts Center,
N.Y., 2003
“David Lynch and Eraserhead,” American Museum of the Moving Image,
N.Y., 2003
Moderator, Evening with Thelma Schoonmaker, Carla Kuhn Memorial
Speaker Series, Columbia University, 2003
Moderator, Evening with Raoul Coutard, Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker
Series, Columbia University, 2003
Lecture on Polanski and Chinatown, Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, N.Y. ,
2003
Speaker, Workshop on Anthology Editing and Careers Outside the
Academy, Born to Be Bad 2: Trash Cinema Conference and Film
Festival, University of California at Berkeley, 2003
Lecture on Terry Gilliam and Lost in La Mancha, Cinema Arts Center,
Huntington, N.Y. 2003
Speaker, Panel on movies and books, Mary Baker Eddy Library for the
Betterment of Humanity, Boston, 2003
“Andy Warhol and Empire,” opening event of “New York, New York:
Movies Selected by the New York Critics Circle,” American Museum of
the Moving Image, N.Y., 2002
Moderator, Evening on Tod Browning and Freaks, Maryland Institute
College of Art, Baltimore, 2002
Moderator, evening with composer Carter Burwell, Carla Kuhn Memorial
Speaker Series, Columbia University, 2002
Presentation on Film Criticism, Hartley Wallach Living Learning Center,
Columbia University, N.Y., 2002
Moderator, Talk Cinema at Brooklyn Academy of Music, N.Y.C., 1999-
2001
Presentation on Iranian film, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,
Hartford, Conn., 2001
Moderator, Panel on City Hall, with Danny Aiello, Edward R. Pressman,
and Ken Lipper, BAMcinématek, Brooklyn Academy of Music, N.Y.,
2001
Lecture on James Dean and Rebel Without a Cause, Sacred Heart
University, Fairfield, Conn., 2001
Moderator, “Director’s Take with James Ivory,” Independent Feature
Project, Director’s Guild of America Theater, N.Y., 2000
Speaker, panel on Law and Order in “Frederick Wiseman: American
Filmmaker” program, with Norman E. Siegel et al, Lincoln Center, N.Y.,
2000
Speaker, panel on Hospital in “Frederick Wiseman: American Filmmaker”
program, Lincoln Center, N.Y., 2000
Moderator and lecturer, Evening on Robert Duvall and The Apostle, in
symposium on Art & Soul: Religious Faith and Literary Art, Baylor
University, Texas, 2000
“Peter Medak and Let Him Have It,” American Museum of the Moving
Image, N.Y., 2000
“Tunisian Film and Silences of the Palace,” Guild Hall/John Drew Theater,
East Hampton, N.Y., 2000
Moderator, Evening with filmmaker Alison Maclean, Columbia University
Graduate Film Carla Kuhn Memorial Guest Speaker Series, 2000
Lecture on modernism and cinema, Mercy College, N.Y., 2000
Lecture/Discussion on Mike Hodges film, Shooting Gallery Film Club,
N.Y., 2000
Inaugural lecture, “The Bronx is Up and the Battery’s Down: New York
City on Screen,” in Ciné Salon series Lovers of Cinema: The Odyssey of
American Independent Film 1893-1941, Howe Library, Hanover, N. H.,
1999
Presentation on early American cinema, Hood Museum of Art/Hopkins
Center, Dartmouth College, 1999
Lecture on Nouvelle Vague Cinema and Literary Paris in the Fifties; The
Mercantile Library, New York, 1999
Introductory speaker, Pedro Almodóvar film screening, Young Friends of
Film, Lincoln Center, N.Y., 1999
Introductory speaker, evening with actress Anita Ekberg and film, Beekman
Theater, N.Y., 1999
Moderator and host, Film screenings presented by Cinema Arts Group, New
Jersey, 1999-2000
Moderator, Program on music and film with composer John Barry, The
Screening Room, N.Y., 1999
Presentations on Iranian and Spanish films, Great Neck Center for the Visual
& Performing Arts, N.Y., 1999
Speaker, Panel on journalism, Principia College, Illinois, 1999
Moderator, “Before Hollywood: The Debut of an Art and Industry in New
York,” New-York Historical Society, 1998
Introductory speaker, Olivier Assayas presentation in Zeitgeist Films
anniversary program, American Museum of the Moving Image, 1998
Moderator, Evening with Mexican filmmaker Bigas Luna, Cinema Arts
Center, Huntington, N.Y., 1998
Lecture on current film, New York Film Buffs, French Institute/Alliance
Française, 1998
Commentaries on films and criticism, Filmmakers Symposium, Monmouth
University, N. J., 2004, 2002, 1998
Introductory talk, Merchant Ivory Productions retrospective, Paris Theater,
N.Y., 1998
Lectures on narrative in film and business, Amos Tuck School of Business,
Dartmouth College, 1997
Speaker, Panel on “Moments Out of Time,” with Andrew Sarris, Molly
Haskell, James Toback, et al, Film Comment/Film Society of Lincoln
Center, N.Y.C., 1997
Featured Speaker, Opening Gala, Great Neck Center for the Arts, N.Y., 1997
Lecture on censorship with First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams,
National Board of Review, N.Y., 1997
Lecture on Gregory J. Markopoulos and Avant-Garde Cinema, Foundation
for Hellenic Culture, N.Y., 1997
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with filmmaker Bruce Beresford,
Independent Feature Project/Sundance Channel, N.Y., 1997
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with filmmaker/actor Griffin Dunne,
Independent Feature Project/Sundance Channel, N.Y., 1997
Speaker, Panel on John Cassavetes, with Peter Bogdanovich, Seymour
Cassell, et al, Miramax Films and Film Comment, N. Y., 1997
Presentation on Film Criticism, Fridays @ 4 Lecture Series, New School
for Social Research, N.Y., 1997
Lecture on Criticism, American Museum of the Moving Image, N.Y., 1996
Moderator, Panel on Screenwriting, with writer Barbara Turner, Script to
Screen Conference, Independent Feature Project, N.Y.C., 1996
Speaker, Panel on Politics and Film, with Robert Scheer, John Fund, Ron
Silver, et al, Lincoln Center, N.Y.C., 1996
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant,
Works in Process Series, Guggenheim Foundation, 1995
Presentation on Satyajit Ray, Merchant/Ivory Productions, Lincoln Plaza
Cinema, N.Y. 1995
Presentations on classic films, Greenwich Classic Film Series, Conn., 1992-
2000
Lecture on films by Chabrol and Hitchcock, The Brooklyn Museum, 1994
Speaker, Panel on Turkish Cinema, Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center,
N.Y., 1994
Presentations on current films, Westchester Cinema Club, 1990-2002
Guest speaker, Newspaper Workshop, C. W. Post Campus, Long Island
University, 1994
Lecture on Biennial film and video presentations, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, 1993
Lecture on Hitchcock films, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1993
Presentations on current films, Key Cinema Club, Washington, D.C., 1992-
94
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with James Ivory, Cooper Union Grand
Hall, New York, 1993
Presentations on recent films, Westport Film Society, Connecticut, 1993-94
Presentation on films by Robert Altman, Silvermine Artists Guild, Stamford,
Connecticut, 1993
Speaker, Panel on moral values in cinema, with Richard Heffner et al,
American Jewish Committee et al, 1991
Speaker, New School University/New School for Social Research, seminar
on film journalism, 2005, 2004, 1998-2001, 1994, 1991, 1990.
Media Activities (selected):
Television Appearances:
CNN Newsroom, CNN, 2011
Six Degrees of TV, tvtropolis, Canada, 2010
Connie Martinson Talks Books, PBS/L.A. CityView, 2008
The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 1998
At Large With Geraldo Rivera, Fox News Channel, 2005
Film Critic, MSNBC at the Movies, MSNBC-TV, 2005
Breakfast News, BBC, 2005
Countdown Coast to Coast, MSNBC, 2005
Talking Movies, BBC, 2005, 2000
Dayside MSNBC, 2004-2005
Charlie Rose, PBS, 2004
Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, 2003-2004
Newsnight with Aaron Brown, CNN, 2004
Scarborough Country, MSNBC, 2004
The Capital Report, CNBC, 2004
CNN Live Today, CNN, 2004
Headline News, CNN Headline News, 2004, 2002
Dayside, CNN, 2004
CNN International, CNN, 2004
BBC World, BBC, 2004, 2000
Live From CNN, CNN, 2004
Feature Story News, 2004
In the Money, CNN, 2004
News 24, BBC, 2004
CNN Sunday, CNN, 2003
MSNBC Morning, MSNBC, 2004
MSNBC Right Now, MSNBC, 2003-2004
Arthouse, 2004
Catherine Crier Live, Court TV, 2003, 2002
CNN Sunday Morning, CNN, 2003
MSNBC Live, MSNBC, 2003, 2001
Rogers Television, Toronto, 2003
The News with Brian Williams, MSNBC, 2002
The Point, CNN, 2002
Hollywood at Large, Court TV / NBC, 2002
Academy Awards Special, Fox News Channel, 2001
World Report, CNN International, 2001
Newsfront, MSNBC, 2001, 2000
24Frame News, The Sundance Channel, 2001
Celebrity Spotlight, Fox News Channel, 2001
Crier Today, Court TV, 2000-2001
NBC News with Mike Barnicle, MSNBC, 2001
Movie Talk, BBC, 2001
Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer, MSNBC, 2000
The Edge with Paula Zahn, Fox News Channel, 2000
Behind the Screen, AMC–American Movie Classics, 2000
Morning Line, MSNBC, 1997-2000
Fox News Live, Fox News Channel, 2000
Feedback, MSNBC, 2000
Morning Blend, MSNBC, 1997-2000
School’s Out , MSG–Metro Learning, 1998-2000
Studio Y, MSG–Metro Channel, 2000
Breakfast News, BBC, 2000
Hannity & Colmes, Fox News Channel, 1999
The Crier Report, Fox News Channel, 1996-99
Today in America, MSNBC, 1998-99
Fox on Entertainment, Fox News Channel, 1996-99
News Chat, MSNBC, 1998-99
Fox News Now, Fox News Channel, 1999
Real Time, MSNBC, 1999
Canapé, CUNY-TV, 1999
Today in America Oscar Special, MSNBC, 1999
Clinton Scandal Special, Fox News Channel, 1998
Moneyline, CNN, 1998
Weekend in America, MSNBC, 1998
Cinema, PBS, 1997
Newsfront , MSNBC-TV, 1997
Arts & Humanities, MSG—Metro Learning, 1998
Fox on Entertainment Special , Fox News Channel, 1997
New York Calling, WBIS-TV, 1997
Telewizja Polska/Polish Public Television, 1997
Fox on Religion, Fox News Channel, 1996
America After Hours, CNBC-TV, 1996
Associated Press Television, 1995
Additional Media Activities
Film Critic, Monitor Radio, Public Radio International, 1985-1997
Film critic, World Monitor, The Discovery Channel, 1989
Film Critic, World Service, Monitor Radio, 1986-1990
Film critic, One Norway Street, The Monitor Channel/WWOR-TV, 1989-92
Film critic, Today’s Monitor, The Monitor Channel/WWOR-TV, 1989-92
David Sterritt with Films in Focus, RobinHoodRadio, WHDD, Connecticut, 2009 –
Present
Radio Appearances
Knowledge @ Wharton, Sirius XM, 2019
To the Point, Public Radio International, 2013
Maryland Morning, WYPR, 2011
The World Trade Center on Film, Voice of America, 2011
Moncrieff with Scott Moncrieff, Newstalk Radio Ireland, 2011
Newsdrive, BBC Radio Scotland, 2011
The Mike Hosking Breakfast, Newstalk ZB, New Zealand, 2011
Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Wisconsin Public Radio, 2011
Gary O’Brien & Friends, WDWS, Illinois, 2009
The Louie Free Radio Show, WASN, Ohio, 2009, 2008
Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, 2008
The Bob Edwards Show, XM Satellite Radio/Sirius XMPR/Sirius Satellite
Radio, 2008
Inquiry, WICN/NPR, New England, 2008
The Jordan Rich Show, WBZ, Boston, 2008
Stone & Double T Show, WXRX, Illinois, 2008
The Frank DeCaro Show, Sirius OutQ, Sirius Satellite Radio, 2008
Talk@12, Iowa Public Radio, 2008
The Drive, WJBC, Illinois, 2008
The Sandbox, WFNX, Boston, 2008
Late Mornings, KVON, California, 2008
To the Best of Our Knowledge, Public Radio International/Wisconsin Public
Radio, 2007
The Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly, 2007
RadioOpticon, http://www.robinhoodradio.com, 2006
The Ticket, BBC World Service, 2003-2005
American Voices with Senator Bill Bradley, Sirius Satellite Radio, 2005
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, Washington, D.C., 2005
Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005
The Dean Richards Show, WGN, Chicago, 2005
Film Focus, WKCR-FM, N.Y., 2005, 2002, 2001
CBS News, 2004
CFRB, Toronto, 2004
Morning Edition, National Public Radio, 2004, 2003, 2001
Radio Free Europe, 2003-2004
Europe Today, BBC World Service, 2004
Meridian Screen, BBC World Service, 2002-2003
Radio 5, BBC, 2004
Radio New Zealand, 2004
The Mark Steiner Show, WYPR, Baltimore, 2004
Drive Home with Preston Westmoreland, KTAR, Phoenix, 2004
The World, Public Radio International/BBC, 2000-2002
Daybreak, WEAA, Baltimore, 2003
Marketplace, Public Radio International, 1997-2001
On Screen, BBC World Service, 2001
New York and Company, WNYC-AM, N. Y., 2001, 1997, 1998, 1999
Talking History, Public Radio, 2001
All Things Considered—Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, 2000
The Connection, National Public Radio, 2000, 1998
Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, 1998
British Broadcasting Corporation—Scotland, 1998
The Ideas Network, Wisconsin Public Radio, 1994
Voice of America, 1993, 1991, 1989
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1991
WCCO-AM, Minneapolis, 1990
Additional Media Appearances:
Nightline with Ted Koppel, ABC-TV, 1988
CBS Morning News, CBS-TV, 1985-6
The Envelope Please…, Bravo, 1997-1998
Television Canal +, France, 2003
All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 1996
City Cinematheque, CUNY-TV, New York, 1999, 1996
North Carolina Public Radio/WCQS, 1990
Minnesota Public Radio, 1989
WNYC-FM, 1988
Cinema Then, Cinema Now, CUNY-TV, New York, 1992
WPIX-TV News, New York, 1990
Louis Lyons Show, WGBH-TV, Boston, 1970
Podcasts:
Tikkun – David Sterritt Phone Forum, 2009
http://www.tikkun.org/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=
2009041514492151
Films in Focus, 2009
Commentaries robinhoodradio.com
http://podcasts.am1020whdd.com/~am1020wh/index.php
Interview on Mr. Media Interviews with Bob Andelman, 2008
BlogTalkRadio <http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mrmedia/2008/12/09/
David-Sterritt-THE-B-LIST-author-film-critic-Mr-Media-Interview>
Interview with Garrison Keillor and Robert Altman, 2006
92nd Street Y, New York <http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/
robert_altman_podcast/>
Additional Activities (selected):
Associate Editor, Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, 2002
Critic at Large, Film Scouts, America Online/Internet/World Wide Web,
1995-present
Nominator, MacArthur Fellows Program, The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, 1999
Advisory Board, The Fassbinder Foundation, 2000-present
Advisory Board, Religious Faith and Literary Art: Art & Soul Conference,
Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2001-present
Member, Board of Directors, International Film Circuit, New York, 1989-
present
Biographies (selected):
Who’s Who in America
Contemporary Authors
Miscellaneous Activities (selected):
In-House Critic, Dartmouth College, Dept. of Drama and Film Studies,
1990, 1987
Speaker, Panel on Cinema, with Bob Mondello and Linda Benn, University
of North Carolina (Asheville), 1990
Film lecture, Principia College, Illinois, 1976
Host and Interviewer, “Dialogues With Directors,” with James Ivory,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1990
Host and Interviewer, “Dialogues With Directors,” with Franklin J.
Schaffner, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1988
Lectures, Newark Public Library, Newark, N.J., 1986-90
Speaker, Fordham University, Seminar on Arts Journalism, 1989
Lecture on Academy Awards, Motion Picture Bookers Club, 1988
Article on new music, commissioned by Neue Zeitschrift für Muzik,
Germany, 1985.
Speaker, Symposium on minimalism, Virginia Commonwealth University
Speaker, Panel on experimental theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Guest host, New, Old, and Unexpected Music, WNYC-FM, New York
Speaker, Seminar on current cinema, Touro College, New York
Speaker, Panel on film, art, and music, Greenwich Public Library, Conn.
Speaker, Conference on University Theater, Yale University
Speaker, Conference on Careers and the Arts, Des Moines, Iowa
Guest host, Flick-out, WGBH-TV, Boston
Invited participant in critics polls – The American Film Institute, Sight and Sound,
Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, Premiere, New York Post, Film Comment,
Senses of Cinema, Cinema Scope, indieWire, PopMatters, Beyond the
Canon, Movie City News, Newport International Film Festival,
Moviecrazed.com, The Cinematheque.com, CriticWire, Museum of the
Moving Image, et cetera
Engagements as professional organist/pianist, various years and locations
Additional Miscellaneous Activities (selected):
Project consultations/manuscript referee: PMLA; Routledge; W. W. Norton & Company; Cambridge University Press; University of California Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Rutgers University Press; Wilfrid Laurier University Press; Canadian Journal of Film Studies; Polity Press; Anthem Press; Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Pearson Longman; Rowman & Littlefield; Indiana University Press; Historical Methods; University of Texas Press; State University of New York Press; Screening the Past; Wayne State University Press; University Press of Kentucky; Southern Illinois University Press; Wallflower Books; Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media; Cinema Journal; Mosaic; Concentric: Literary & Cultural Studies; The Journal of American Culture; et cetera (various years through present).
Consultations on tenure, promotion, academic awards: Hunter College/City
University of New York, 1998; Oklahoma State University, 2000;
University of Nebraska, 2005; Clemson University, 2005; University of
Hartford, 2006; Baylor University, 2006; University of New Hampshire,
2008.
Consultant, Hitchcock documentary film project, Baylor University, 1998-
99.
Advisory Committee Member, Conference on China at Home and Abroad,
Third World Television Exchange, 1997.
Nominator, MacArthur Foundation, 2000.
Nominee consultations, MacArthur Foundation, various years, 1994-2003.
Nominee consultations, Guggenheim Foundation, various years.
Nominee consultation, Mellon Distinguished Achievement Awards, 2008.
Recipient of Major Grants, C.W. Post Research Committee, Long Island
University, 1993-94, 1995-97, 1997-98.
Contributing Editor, The Thousand Eyes Magazine, New York City, 1980.
Professional organizations:
National Society of Film Critics
(Chair, 2005 – present; Vice-Chair, 2004)
American Society for Aesthetics
Modern Language Association
American Studies Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
FIPRESCI: Film Critics International Federation
Online Film Critics Society
(through 2005; Special Honorary Member, 2005- present)
Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation
(Co-Chair, 1999-2005, 2010-present; founding member of Advisory
Committee, 1998-99)
New York Film Critics Circle
(through 2005; Chair 2000, 1987; Vice-Chair 1999, 1986)
New York Film Critics Online
(through 2005)
Additional Teaching:
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1993)
City University of New York, College of Staten Island (1992)
Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus (1985-89)
Columbia University: Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, various
years
Education:
B.A., English Language and Literature, Boston University, College of
Liberal Arts, May 1967
M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and
Science, February 1992
Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and
Science, December 1993
David Sterritt 