Cinema Studies
Education
B.A., Brooklyn College (CUNY).
Biography
Editor,
October (MIT Press). Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 1986-1987. Getty Scholar, J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (1989-1990). Author,
Robert Morris: An Aesthetic of Transgression;
The Art of Moving Shadows; and
On the Eve of the Future: Essays in Cinematic and Related Practices. Editor,
Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov;
October: The First Decade;
Cinema, Censorship and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima; and
Doctor of Laws. H.C. Translations include Jean-Paul Sartre,
Literary and Philosophic Essays; Simone de Beauvoir,
Must We Burn Sade?; Georges Bataille,
Writings on Laughter, Sacrifice, Unknowing. Honors: Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism; grants-in-aid for research on Soviet cinema given by the National Endowment for the Arts; Faculty Fellowship awarded by the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges at the International Center for Advanced Studies (NYU, 2000-01), and NYU Distinguished Teaching Medal. Member, Board of Directors, Anthology Film Archives. Consultant on film programming at the National Gallery of Art.
