FACULTY & STAFF
People : Studies Part Time : : Dave Douglas
Ph.D., Northwestern Universitye-mail:
David Douglas presently teaches Film History to 1959, Introduction to Cinema, and World Cinema(s). Recent courses of instruction have included Canadian Cinema, Introduction to the Art & Style of Cinema and The Musical. His areas of specialization and interest include film history, Canadian cinema and World cinemas (including Cuban Cinema, Sub-saharan cinemas, and Chinese cinemas), film and politics, independent cinemas and the cinema of Larry Kent. He is a contributor to Timothy Barnard and Peter Rist (eds.), South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography 1915-94 (published 1996, paperback ed. 1998, U. of Texas Press) and Peter Rist (ed.), Guide to the Cinemas of Canada (2001). He has also published in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and Cinema Canada.
Dr. Douglas is a past Chair of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and a current Member-at-Large for the Board of the Film Studies Association of Canada
People : Studies Part Time : : Matthew Hays
M.A., Concordia University, 1999e-mail:
Matthew Hays is a Montreal-based critic and journalist. He has been a film critic for the weekly Montreal Mirror since 1993. His articles have also appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Daily Beast, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Advocate, The Walrus, CBC Arts Online, Cineaction!, Cineaste, Take One, POV, Cinema Scope, Montage, The Toronto Star, The Canadian Theatre Review, This Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter and Xtra. His book, The View From Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers (Arsenal Pulp Press), was cited by Quill & Quire as one of the best books of 2007 and won a 2008 Lambda Literary Award. Hays won the 2007 Concordia Alumni Association’s Award for Teaching Excellence. He is the co-editor (with Concordia professor Thomas Waugh) of the Queer Film Classics book series, which will be published from 2009-2015. Hays served as a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008 and 2009. He teaches courses in the cinema, communication studies and journalism departments at Concordia.
People : Studies Part Time : : Donato Totaro
Ph.D., University of Warwick, 2002e-mail:
Donato Totaro received his Doctoral Degree in Film & Television from the University of Warwick (UK) in 2002 and has been a lecturer in Film Studies at Concordia University since 1990. Courses taught include “Film Comedy,” “Film Aesthetics,” “Time, Temporality and Cinema,” “Montage Aesthetics,” “History of Film to 1959,” “Horror and Fantasy,” and “Moving Camera Aesthetics.” Since 1997 he has been the editor of the online film journal Offscreen (http://www.offscreen.com), a wide-ranging journal which specializes in international and alternative cinemas. Totaro is a member of the Association québécoise des critiques de cinema (AQCC) and has published extensively on recent Asian cinema, the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, the horror genre, and is a regular contributor to the US horror magazine Fangoria. His research interests include the horror genre, film style, and cinema and temporality. He is currently preparing a manuscript entitled “Time and the Long Take in Narrative Cinema.”
People : Studies Part Time : : Pierre Véronneau
Ph.D., Université du Québec à Montréal, 1987e-mail:
Pierre Véronneau est détenteur d'un doctorat en histoire et d'une maîtrise en études littéraires de l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Entré au service de la Cinémathèque québécoise en 1973, il est depuis novembre 2002 Conservateur du cinéma québécois et canadien. À titre de conservateur, il a collaboré à plusieurs expositions réelles et virtuelles. Il est professeur associé à l’Université de Montréal et à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Il enseigne régulièrement à titre de chargé de cours à l’Université Concordia. Il est membre du Groupe de recherche sur l’avènement et la formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique (GRAFICS), et siège au conseil de la revue Cinémas et d’associations professionnelles (Domitor, Association canadienne d’études cinématographiques, Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française). On lui doit un certain nombre d'ouvrages sur le cinéma et la télévision au Canada, tels que David Cronenberg : la beauté du chaos (2003), Répertoire des séries, feuilletons et téléromans québécois de 1952 à 1992 (1993), Résistance et affirmation : la production francophone à l’ONF – 1939-1964 (1987), ainsi que de nombreux articles de recherche sur les sujets suivants : Cinéma au Québec au temps du muet (subvention CRSH 2003-2006), Cinéma ambulant et implantation urbaine, Montréal dans le cinéma québécois, Représentation et réception critique du cinéma québécois hors Québec, Scénario et adaptation, etc.