Awards
* Noble fellowship for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the Museum of Modern Art. * Mellon Faculty fellowship at Harvard University. * Weiner Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Missouri.Books
* ''The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium'', The Johns Hopkins University Press (November 29, 2000) * ''The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film'', University of Minnesota Press (2019)Articles and Film Reviews
*1967: "Shadow and Substance: Murnau's Nosferatu", Sight & Sound 36:3 (Summer). Reprinted, in Spanish translation, in the Madrid journal Revista de Occidente 61, April 1968. *1969: "Jacques Becker: Two Films", Sight & Sound 38:3 (Summer). *1971: "F.W. Murnau: An Introduction", Film Comment 7:2 (Summer). Reprinted in the anthology Passport to Hollywood (McGraw-Hill, 1976). *"Twenty-four Times a Second", Sight and Sound 40:4 (Autumn). *1972: "The Chaplin Revue", Film Comment 8:3 (Sept/Oct) *1975: "All in the Foreground: A Study of Dovzhenko's Earth", The Hudson Review 28:1 (Spring). *1977: "The Narrative Sequence", The Hudson Review, 30:1 (Spring), 80–92. Reprinted in New Observations, No. 36, Winter 1985–86. *1977-78: "Narrative Voices" n Arreola, Coover, Donoso, Peter Taylor, Anne Tyler, and others The Hudson Review 30:4 (Winter 1977–78); a section reprinted in a volume of the anthology Contemporary Literary Criticism. *1978: "The Interior of the Decorator" n Woody Allen's Interiors New York Arts Journal 11 (Sept/Oct). * "Modernist Cinema: The History Lessons of Straub and Huillet", Artforum 17:2 (October). Reprinted, at Jean-Marie Straub's own request, in the accompanying booklet (ed. Jonathan Rosenbaum) to the retrospective of the films of Straub and Huillet at the Public Theater, New York City, November 1982. *"Something to Look up to" n Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind8 (Feb/Mar). *1979: "Fiction Chronicle" n Bataille, Günter Grass, Pinget, Stegner, and others The Hudson Review 32:3 (Autumn). *"Film Chronicle: Days of Heaven", The Hudson Review 32:1 (Spring). *"Herzog's Nosferatu", New York Arts Journal 16 (Nov/Dec). Reprinted in a volume of the anthology Contemporary Literary Criticism. *"Up Close" n Bergman's Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten) New York Arts Journal 13 (Feb/Mar). *1980: "Kubrick's Fearful Geometry" n The Shining New York Arts Journal 19 (Sept/Oct) *"These Days in the Holocene" n Max Frisch, Nadine Gordimer, Paul Theroux, and othersThe Hudson Review 33:4 (Winter 1980–81); a section reprinted in a volume of the anthology Contemporary Literary Criticism. *1981: "The Bewildered Equilibrist: An Essay on Buster Keaton's Comedy", The Hudson Review 34:3 (Autumn). *"The First and Other Persons" n Calvino, Milosz, Philip Roth, and others The Hudson Review 34:4 (Winter 1981–82). *"A Note on Buñuel's Narrative", Artery 5:1 (October). *1982: "Between Life and Art" n photography and painting The Hudson Review 35:2 (Summer). *"The Thread of the Disconcerting" onsidering Luis Buñuel Sight and Sound 52:1 (Winter 82–83), 58–61. *1983: "Atget's Stillness", The Hudson Review 36:2 (Summer). *1984: "The Camera and the Subject", New Observations 27 (Winter 1984–85). *1985: "A Question of Point of View", Sight and Sound 54:2 (Spring), 133–4. *1986: "Godard's Tenderness", Raritan, 6:1 (Summer), 63–83. *1988: "The Madwoman in the Loft: Fatal Attraction" (with William Park), The Hudson Review, 41:1 (Spring), 197–202. *1989: "Landscape and Fiction: Jean Renoir's Country Excursion", The Hudson Review, 42:2 (Summer), 237–60. *1991: "Bell-Bottom Blues" n Godard and his film Nouvelle Vague The Nation Feb. 18. *"In the Beginning" n early cinema and theories of the spectator The Nation November 4. *"The Point of View of a Stranger, an essay on Antonioni's Eclipse", The Hudson Review, 44:2 (Summer), 234–62. *1992: "The Cult of the Colt" n the Western and its politics The Nation, September 14. *1993: "The Frontier Dialectic", The Nation, October 25. *"It's a Wonderful Life" n formative moviegoing, movie critics, and movie directors The Nation, January 4/11. *"Nosferatu", Raritan, 13:1 (Summer), 1-29. *1994: "The Centenary of Jean Renoir", The Yale Review 83:4 (October). *"A Man Pointing: Antonioni and the Film Image", The Yale Review, 82:3 (July), 38–65. *1996: "Film in Review: The Gangster's Enterprise", The Yale Review, 84:3 (July), 186–95. *1997: "Film in Review: The Edges of Realism" onsidering the films of Abbas Kiarostami The Yale Review, 85:1 (January), 171–84. *"Film in Review: The Liberal Imagination" onsidering The People versus Larry Flynt The Yale Review, 85:3 (July), 175–87. *"Films, The Material Ghost", Raritan, 16:4 (Spring), 106–26. *1998: "Cinema in Review: Victor Nunez and Ulee's Gold", The Yale Review, 86:2 (April), 174–85. *"L'or et le miel", Trafic 28 (Hiver). *"La sequenza narrativa", Quaderni 2. *"Theory and Aesthetics in Film Scholarship" - 'In the Study of Film, Theory Must Work Hand in Hand With Criticism', Chronicle of Higher Education 45:11 (November 6), 6–7. *1999: "An Actor and a Director Whose Bond Was, Well, Mad" n Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog The New York Times, Sunday, November 7. *"Cinema in Review: Spectacle and Surveillance", The Yale Review 87:1 (January), 182–92. *"Film in Review: Ghosts of the City: Films of Ernie Gehr", The Yale Review 87:4 (October), 173–88. *"Obsessed by Place, and Finding One on a Frontier" n Ernie Gehr The New York Times, Sunday, March 21. *"Slices of Cake" n Alfred Hitchcock London Review of Books, 21:16, 19 August. *2000: "Toward a Rhetoric of Film: Identification and the Spectator", Senses of Cinema - on-line journal 5 (April). *Forthcoming: "Film in Review: Bad Boys", The Yale Review 88:2 (April).Articles from the London Review of Books
*How We Remember Terrence Malick, 12 September 2013 *Bourgeois Nightmares: Michael Haneke, 6 December 2012 *House of Miscegenation: Westerns, 18 November 2010 *Building with Wood: Time and Tarkovsky, 26 February 2009 *Self-Illuminated: Godard's Method, 1 April 2004 *It's a playground: Kiarostami et Compagnie, 27 June 2002 *Looking for Imperfection: John Cassavetes, 23 August 2001 *"Who is this Ingrid Bergman?": Stroheim and Rossellini, 14 December 2000 *So Close to the Monster: The Trouble with Being Cuban, 22 June 2000 *Slices of Cake: Alfred Hitchcock, 19 August 1999The Criterion Collection: DVD Notes
*L'eclisse: Antonioni and Vitti *A Day in the Country: Jean Renoir's Sunday Outing *The Life of Oharu: Not ReconciledReferences
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