FACULTY & STAFF

People : Studies : : Luca Caminati

Associate Professor (September 2010)
PhD, University of Wisconsin, 2001
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Dr. Caminati's academic work encompasses Italian cinema, contemporary Italian popular culture, literature and media, film studies, and critical theory.

His innovative and influential book on Pier Paolo Pasolini, Orientalismo eretico, was published by Bruno Mondadori in Milan in 2007.

People : Studies : : Mario Falsetto

Professor
Ph.D., New York University, 1990
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Mario Falsetto's areas of research interest include contemporary American Cinema; experimental film; independent narrative film; the films of Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg, Stan Brakhage, Federico Fellini, Terence Davies, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, and John Cassavetes; as well as contemporary film theory and aesthetics. He has taught Experimental Film, Film Aesthetics, Montage Aesthetics, American Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, Studies in Film Directors, the Films of Stanley Kubrick and numerous other courses.

At Concordia, Falsetto has served as Chair of the Cinema Department, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, and Graduate Program Director of the M.A. in Film Studies. He is also a past-president of the Film Studies Association of Canada.

Publications include Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick (G. K. Hall, 1996); Personal Visions: Conversations With Contemporary Film Directors (Silman-James Press, 2000), the first volume in his on-going project of interviews with contemporary filmmakers; Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis (New and Expanded Second Edition, Praeger Publishers, 2001), and the forthcoming book, Talking Movies: Conversations With Film Directors About Movies That Matter (Preger Publishers, 2006).

Click here to read a chapter from Perspectives on Stanley Kubrick

People : Studies : : Martin Lefebvre

Associate Professor
Ph.D., UQAM, 1996
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Martin Lefebvre is University Research Chair in Film Studies and Director of the Advanced Research Team on the History and Epistemology of Moving Image Studies (ARTHEMIS, http://www.arthemis-cinema.ca/). He is also Director of the Doctoral Program in Film and Moving Image Studies. His research interests include general and applied semiotics, philosophy (Peirce and pragmatism, Wittgenstein and the philosophy of language, epistemology, hermeneutics, aesthetics), classical and contemporary film theory, modern and postmodern film, narrative theory, cultural studies, cinéma québécois, Hollywood cinema, Hitchcock, Eisenstein, Greenaway, and Godard. Lefebvre is the Editor of Recherches sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry (RS/SI), the journal of the Canadian Semiotic Association, and he has written for film, philosophy, cultural studies and literature journals and anthologies in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States.

He has published a book entitled, Psycho: De la figure au musée imaginaire: Théorie et pratique de l'acte de spectature (L'Harmattan, 1997), has co-edited a book on Eisenstein (Eisenstein: l'Ancien et le nouveau. Publications de la Sorbonne, 2002 -- with François Jost and Dominique Chateau) and a collection entitled Landscape and Film (Routledge, 2006). He is currently preparing a book on Peirce, Pragmatism and Images.

Prior to joining Concordia, Lefebvre taught at the University of Alberta (Edmonton) and at Université Laval (Québec City). He has been an Invited Professor at the Université de Paris 1 Sorbonne-Panthéon, the Université de Poitiers and the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City, and is Adjunct Professor in the Doctoral Program in Semiotics (Sémiologie) at Université du Québec à Montréal.

People : Studies : : John Locke

Professor
M.A., New York University, 1971
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Concordia's first appointment in Fine Arts/Cinema, John Locke has taught seminars on film technology and style, film theory and criticism, and Hitchcock and Welles. Locke's previous graduate work was in analytical philosophy with a concentration in aesthetics and the philosophy of language. His research interests include the concept of "style" in film and art, the films of 1931-33 and their cultural contexts, and the "unknown documentary", Jean Dréville's (1928) Autour de l'argent.

Locke has written for film and art magazines in Canada and the United States on experimental film and film criticism, including a seminal two-part article written in the 1970s for Art Forum on Michael Snow's La région centrale. His recent work on "how-to" filmmaking books include topics such as script-writing and film technology in the silent era.

Locke occupies a position outside mainstream film theory, influenced by anti-theory theory as exemplifed in the work of David Bordwell and Noel Carroll and by analytical philosophy growing out of late Wittgenstein works.

People : Studies : : Erin Manning

Assistant Professor
Cross-Appointed with Studio Arts
Ph.D., Political Theory, University of Hawaii, 2000
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Erin Manning holds a University Research Chair in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the director of the Sense Lab (http://www.senselab.ca), a laboratory that explores the intersections between art practice and philosophy through the matrix of the sensing body in movement. In her art practice she works between painting, fabric and sculpture (http://www.erinmovement.com).

Her current project entitled Folds to Infinity is an experimental fabric collection composed of cuts that connect in an infinity of ways, folding in to create clothing and out to create environmental architectures. The next phase of this project will explore the resonance between electromagnetic fields and movement through the activation of the existent magnets in Folds to Infinity.

Her writing addresses the senses, philosophy and politics, articulating the relation between experience, thought and politics in a transdisciplinary framework moving between dance and new technology, the political and micropolitics of sensation, performance art, and the current convergence of cinema, animation and new media. Publications include Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009), Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2007) and Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home and Identity in Canada (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2003).

Click here for the introduction (PDF format) to Erin's Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty (Minnesota UP, 2006).

People : Studies : : Rosanna Maule

.:: Film Studies Undergraduate Programme Head ::.
Full-time Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2000
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Rosanna Maule received her PhD from the University of Iowa in 2000. She has been teaching Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema since 2001 and has recently been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.

She is completing a book on new developments of authorial film practices in French, Italian, and Spanish cinema since the 1980s with Intellect Press (UK) and co-editing an anthology on Marguerite Duras and cinema. Her next book project (for which she received a SSHRC Standard Research grant in April 2006) is on the use of the figural as a specific strategy of cinematic representation and meaning formation in contemporary European cinema. She has published several articles in film journals and books on her area of expertise and edited three special issues of film journals on new historiographic approaches to early cinema.

Maule is a member of the research group on early cinema GRAFICS, based at Université de Montréal, and a collaborator of the Concordia-based research team on the emergence of Film Studies as a discipline. Along with Catherine Russell, she co-organized the Women and the Silent Screen international congress, held in Montreal in June of 2004, and was on the Board of Directors of the 2006 edition of the same congress, held in Guadalajara (Mexico). She is on the editorial board of Cinémas and a member of Domitor and of the Women and the Silent Screen International Association.

Area of expertise include:
Contemporary European cinema
Early cinema
Feminist film theory and historiography
Contemporary film theory

People : Studies : : Peter Rist

Professor
Ph.D., New York University, 1988
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Peter Rist's areas of research interest include silent American film, Brazilian, Cuban, Korean, and Chinese (including Hong Kong) cinemas, the films of Ford and Jansco, and the history of film style. He has presented his critical work on Asian cinema at numerous conferences in North America and Asia. He has published on Canadian, third (world) cinemas, East Asian, contemporary American and experimental film, as well as performance art.

Rist’s book, South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994, was published in 1996 and appeared in paper in 1998 (University of Texas Press). He has also edited an encyclopedia on Canadian cinema entitled A Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada (Greenwood Press, 2001).

People : Studies : : Catherine Russell

.:: PhD Film & Moving Image Studies Programme Head ::.
Professor
Ph.D., New York University, 1990
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Russell has published widely on narrative theory, historiography, ethnography, postcolonial and postmodern theory, feminist theory, melodrama, and Japanese cinema. She has taught courses in experimental ethnographic film, film history, film theory, women and film, Japanese cinema, the western, and melodrama, as well as Methods in Film Studies and a PhD seminar on Walter Benjamin. Her current research projects include Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse, and early cinema. In collaboration with Rosanna Maule, she was coorganizer of the Women and Silent Screen Congress, held at Concordia in June of 2004.

Russell serves on the editorial boards of Cinema Journal, Cinemas and The Canadian Journal of Film Studies. She has published articles on experimental film and video, Japanese cinema, and Canadian cinema. She has published Narrative Mortality: Death and Closure in New Wave Cinemas (University of Minnesota Press, 1995) on the films of Lang, Wenders, Oshima, Godard, and Altman; and Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video (Duke University Press, 1999).

People : Studies : : Maria "Masha" Salazkina

Associate Professor (September 2010)
PhD, Yale University, 2005
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Dr. Salazkina's specialties include Soviet cinema and culture and early Soviet film theory, Latin american cinema and culture, and theories of modernity and modernism.

Her most recent publication, In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico (University of Chicago Press, 2009), chronicles the years that the renowned Soviet director spent in that country working on his unfinished, controversial film, ¡Que Viva Mexico!

People : Studies : : Marc Steinberg

Assistant Professor
PhD, Brown University, 2009
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Marc Steinberg’s research interests revolve around Japanese animation and visual culture. He has just completed a manuscript on the beginnings of Japanese television animation (anime) in the 1960s, tracking the proliferation of media and material forms that accompanied anime’s emergence. His current research focuses on contemporary forms of animation and artistic practice that interrogate media convergence, character merchandising, and the media mix in North American and Japanese film and media cultures.

He has published essays in Japan Forum, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Parachute and Theory, Culture & Society.

People : Studies : : Haidee Wasson

.:: Film Studies Graduate Progamme Director ::.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., McGill University, 1999
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Haidee Wasson’s research interests include modernity/modernism, film exhibition and reception, cultural institutions, emergent media, film and media theory, feminism, and film and media historiography. Her published work concentrates on cinema, but explores the broader relations among media forms and practices (cinema and newspapers, books, radio, film, television, internet). Published research includes work on film and museums; film criticism and newspapers; 16mm projectors and film exhibition; the genealogy of cinema as home entertainment; the impact of various screen technologies on debates about historical knowledge, experience, and aesthetics; and the history of the museum gift shop. She lectures internationally on these and other subjects. She has also won numerous awards and research grants including Doctoral, Post-Doctoral and Faculty grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Fulbright Foundation, and the McKnight Landgrant Foundation. She previously taught in the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Department, University of Minnesota and in the Visual and Environmental Studies Program, Harvard University.

Her award-winning book Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) examines the importance of the modern art museum for ideas and practices of cinema. She has also co-edited (with Dr. Lee Grieveson) a collection of essays on the history of the field of moving image studies,Inventing Film Studies: Towards a History of a Discipline (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008). Her current major research project investigates the history of portable film technologies (projectors and screens).

Click here for Haidee's abridged CV.

People : Studies : : Tom Waugh

Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1981
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Waugh has done major research on documentary cinema, including cinéma direct in Quebec, the documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens, and Indian independent documentary. He has published widely in Canada and the United States on political discourses and sexual representation in film and video, on queer film and video, and on Canadian cinema, and has undertaken inter-disciplinary research and teaching on AIDS and queer studies.

Waugh's books are an anthology, Show Us Life: Towards a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary (1984), Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from their Beginnings to Stonewall (1996), The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema (2000), Outlines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall (2002) and the forthcoming The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Sexualities, Nations, Moving Images (2006),Gay Art, A Historic Collection, Arsenal Pulp Press (2004).
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Click the link for an article (PDF format) Tom wrote for the Canadian Journal of Film Studies entitled "Cinemas, Nations, Masculinities".

People : Studies : : Carole Zucker

Professor
Ph.D., New York University, 1982
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Carole Zucker is internationally known for her work on performance studies, and has lectured and published in Europe, the U.S. and Canada on this subject. Her areas of research interest also include the horror and fantasy genre; contemporary film theory; narrative theory; New German cinema; Japanese Cinema; aesthetics; Irish Studies; concepts of excess,; adaptation, and film script analysis. She also teaches private acting workshops in Canada and the UK. Her research has been supported on numerous occasions by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

She has published extensively on women and the Gothic; narrative theory; postmodern fairy tales; performance theory and the history of Irish Cinema for various U.S., Canadian, and UK journals, as well as having her work extracted in / The London Times./ Zucker¹s publications include / The Idea of the Image: Josef von Sternberg's Dietrich Films / (1988), / Making Visible the Invisible: An Anthology of Original Essays on Film Acting / (1993), / Figures of Light: Actors and Directors Illuminate the Art of Film Acting / (1995), / In the Company of Actors /(1999) with a foreword by Sir Richard Eyre, Conversations with Actors on Film, Television, and Stage Performance (2002), and the recently published /The Cinema of Neil Jordan/: /Dark Carnival /(2008), with a foreword written by Stephen Rea. Zucker is currently working on a major project entitled, Transformative Voices: Practitioner Interviews of British and Irish Actors ‹ Training, Culture and Praxis., the Next Generation, continuing her work in performance studies.

Click here for the Chapter 4: Postmodern Fairy Tales and Hybrid Genres (PDF)