Catherine Russell
Professor
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd O.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3G 1M8
Tel: 514 848-2424 extension 4657
e-mail:

Ph.D., New York University, 1990

Office Hours:
FB 315-4, Wed. (2pm to 4pm)

I am co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, with Charles Acland

New Book

Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited

Recent Conferences

Artists' Moving Image Research Network Documentary and Ethnographic Avant-Garde January 2012

New Publications

Review of Senso DVD Cineaste Summer 2011 Cineaste

The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

Reviews of The Cinema of Naruse Mikio:
Cineaste Summer 2009
Monumenta Nipponica 64:1 (2009)
Screening the Past

Silent Ozu DVD Review Cineaste Fall 2008

“Mini-Cinema: A Digital Diary for iPod,” CineAction! 73/74 (2008): 2-7.

“Double Obsession: Sex, Death, and Oshima,” Video Essay for Criterion Collection DVD release of Empire of Passion, April 2009


Videoblog FNC
Will Straw and Catherine Russell discuss “My Winnipeg”

I am presently the Director of the PhD program in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia. Click here for more information.


In Fall 2011 I am teaching an undergraduate seminar on melodrama.
In Winter 2012 I will be teaching a PhD seminar on Walter Benjamin

FMST 600 - Methods in Film Studies
Click here for the syllabus.
Mondays, 1:15pm - 5pm, Full Year
FB 250

FMST 800 - Archiveology: Theorizing the Moving Image Archive
Click here for the syllabus.
Thursdays, 13:00 - 17:00
EV 6-421

In the past I have taught undergrad courses on:

• Women and Film
  
• The Western
  
• Japanese Cinema
  
• Experimental Documentary

and grad courses on:

• Experimental Ethnography
  
• Walter Benjamin
  
• American Cinema of the 1950s