Curriculum Vitae
July 2010
David Sterritt, Ph.D.
1 East Chase Street
Apt. 501-502
Baltimore, MD 21202-2574
443-438-9003 phone/fax
david@davidsterritt.com
djsterritt@gmail.com
www.DavidSterritt.com
Present positions:
Chair, National Society of Film Critics
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, School of the Arts
Film Studies Faculty, School of the
Arts/Graduate Film Division
(1989 - present)
Adjunct Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art
Department of Language,
Literature, and Culture
Department of Art History
(2005 - Present)
Professor Emeritus of Theater and Film, Long Island University
Chief Book Critic, Film Quarterly
Film Critic / National Editorial Advisory Group, Tikkun
Editorial Board, Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Contributing Writer, MovieMaker
Critic, David Sterritt with Films in Focus, WHDD, RobinHoodRadio.com
Editorial Board, Cinema Journal
Moderator, The Cinema Club, Washington, DC
Related professional activities:
Alternate Member, Library of Congress National Film Preservation Board
(2010-2014)
Distinguished Visiting Faculty, Goldring Arts Journalism
Newhouse School, Syracuse
University (2006 - present)
Programming Associate, Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y,
New York (2005 - 2007)
Film Critic/Special Correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor
(1968-2005)
Professor of Theater and Film, C. W. Post Campus, Long Island University
(1993-2005; tenured 1998)
Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary
Interpretation (1999-2005)
Video Critic, Islands (2000-2003)
Senior Critic, National Critics Institute/O’Neill Critics
Institute,
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center,
Waterford, Conn. (1994 - 2002)
Selection Committee, New York Film Festival (1988 - 1992)
Film Critic, All Things Considered, National Public Radio (1978 –
1980)
Boston Theater Critic, Variety (1969 - 1973)
Editor in Chief, Boston After Dark (Boston Phoenix) (1969 – 1970)
Books:
In contract: The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Myths, Histories, and All
That
Jazz. Directors’ Cuts. London:
Wallflower Press/New York: Columbia
University Press
In contract: Spike Lee’s America. America Through the Lens.
Cambridge,
UK: Polity Press
In progress: “Wrenching Departures: Mortality and Absurdity in
Avant-
Garde Film,” for The Last Laugh:
Strange Humors of Cinema, ed.
Murray Pomerance (Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 2012).
In progress: Beat. Commissioned by Elwin Street Limited, London
The Honeymooners. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television: TV
Milestones. Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 2009
The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget
Beauties, Genre-Bending
Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love, ed.
with John Anderson. New York
and Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press,
2008
Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader. Jackson: University
Press
of Mississippi, 2005
Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility.
Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University
Press, 2004
Terry Gilliam: Interviews, ed. with Lucille Rhodes. Conversations with
Filmmakers. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi, 2004
Robert Altman: Interviews, ed. Conversations with Filmmakers. Jackson:
University Press of
Mississippi, 2000
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible. The Cambridge Film
Classics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University, Press, 1999
Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press,
1998
Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews, ed. Conversations with Filmmakers. Jackson:
University Press of
Mississippi, 1998
(Korean-language edition, Emotion Books, 2008)
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock. The Cambridge Film Classics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
(Chinese-language edition, Peking University Press, 2007)
(Greek-language edition, Publishing House Paratiritis, 1998)
Archive:
Collected film criticism from The Christian Science Monitor housed by
invitation in Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Publications (selected):
Thousands of articles on film, theater, music, and other subjects in
feature and news pages of The Christian Science Monitor, an
international daily newspaper. For titles and articles, see
www.csmonitor.com or call the Library of The Christian Science Monitor
at 617-450-2000.
Articles on film, theater, music, and other subjects in The Washington
Post, The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Denver
Post, The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Sunday Magazine, The Rome Daily
American (Italy), and many other American and overseas newspapers as
syndicated correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor News Service.
Articles in American Film, down beat, World Monitor, Boston Herald
Traveler, Creative States, TV Entertainment, Boston Review of the Arts,
The Concord (Mass.) Journal, and other periodicals.
Anthology Essays, Book Chapters, Encyclopedia Articles:
“Spellbound in Darkness: Shyamalan’s
EpistemologicalTwitch,” in Spoiler
Warnings: Critical Approaches to the
Films of M. Night Shyamalan, ed.
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
In press: “Morbid Psychologies and So Forth: The Fine Art of
Rope,” in
Hitchcock at the Source: The Director as
Literary Adaptor, ed. David
Boyd and R. Barton Palmer (Albany: State
University of New York
Press, 2010).
In press: “You Tell Me: Schizoanalyzing the Informant,” in
The Philosophy
of Steven Soderbergh, ed. R. Barton
Palmer and Steven M. Sanders.
Philosophy and Popular Culture.
(Lexington: University Press
of Kentucky, 2010).
Forthcoming: “History of Film Criticism,” in
Blackwell’s History of
American Film, ed. Roy Grundmann,
Cynthia Lucia, and Art Simon
(Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2011).
Forthcoming: “Murdered Souls, Conspiratorial Cabals:
Frankenheimer’s
Paranoia Films,” in A Little
Solitaire: John Frankenheimer on the
American Screen, ed. R. Barton Palmer
and Murray Pomerance (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
2011).
Forthcoming: “From Transatlantic to Warner Bros,” in A
Companion to
Hitchcock Studies, ed. Thomas Leitch and
Leland Poague (Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishing, 2011).
Forthcoming: “Representing Atrocity: September 11 Through the
Holocaust
Lens,” in Stars of David: The
Jewish Experience in American Cinema,
ed. Murray Pomerance. Contemporary
Approaches to Film and
Television Series (Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 2011).
In contract: “Pecunia Olet: Affluence, Effluence, and
Obscenity,” written
with Mikita Brottman, for Obscenity and
the Limits of Liberalism, ed.
Loren Glass and Charles Williams
(Columbus: The Ohio State
University Press, 2011).
In contract: “George Clooney: The Issues Guy,” for Shining
in the Shadows:
Movie Stars of the 2000s, ed. Adrienne
L. McLean and Murray
Pomerance (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 2011).
In contract: Essays on Swedish Cinema, for Directory of World Cinema:
Sweden, ed. Marcelline Block (Bristol,
UK: Intellect Books, 2011).
In contract: Essays on Chinese Cinema, for Directory of World Cinema:
China, ed. Gary Bettinson (Bristol, UK:
Intellect Books, 2011).
In contract: Essays on Spanish Cinema, for Directory of World Cinema:
Spain, ed. Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
(Bristol, UK: Intellect Books,
2011).
In contract: Essays on American Cinema, for Directory of World Cinema:
American Hollywood, ed. Lincoln Geraghty
(Bristol, UK: Intellect
Books, 2011).
In progress: Essays on American Cinema, for Directory of World Cinema:
American Independent, Volume 2, ed. John
Berra (Bristol, UK: Intellect
Books, 2011).
In progress: “Wholly Communion! Peter Whitehead Meets the Beat
Generation.” Framework 52 (2011).
In progress: “Wrenching Departures: Mortality and Absurdity in
Avant-
Garde Film,” for Humor, ed. Murray
Pomerance.
“Spellbound in Darkness: Shyamalan’s
EpistemologicalTwitch,” in Spoiler
Warnings: Critical Approaches to the
Films of M. Night Shyamalan, ed.
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
“A Shadow Poet: Michael Haneke,” in Cinema Inferno:
Celluloid
Explosions from the Cultural Margins,
ed. Robert G. Weiner and John
Cline (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press,
2010).
“Steven Spielberg’s Flesh Fair: Film, Fantasy, and
Death Denied,” in The
Many Ways We Talk
about Death in Contemporary Society:
Interdisciplinary
Studies in Portrayal and Classification, ed.
Margaret Souza &
Christina Staudt (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press,
2009).
Multiple Moments, for Defining Moments in Movies, Italian edition, ed.
Chris Fujiwara, Milan: Il
Castoro, 2009.
Five Essays – “Targets.” “Eraserhead”
“The Well.” “Will Penny.” “Man on
a String,” in The B
List: The National Society of Film Critics on Low-
Budget Beauties,
Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We
Love, ed. David Sterritt and
John Anderson, New York: Da Capo,
2008).
“Introduction” (written with John Anderson) in The B List:
The National
Society of Film Critics
on Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending
Mavericks, and Cult Classics
We Love, ed. David Sterritt and John
Anderson (New York: Da Capo,
2008).
“Ken Jacobs,” in Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work beyond
Hollywood, ed. Michael Atkinson
(Albany: State University of New
York Press, 2008).
Dozens of Moments, in Defining Moments in Film/Movies: The Little Black
Book, ed. Chris Fujiwara (London:
Cassell Illustrated, 2007).
“He Cuts Heads: Spike Lee and the New York Experience,” in
City That
Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic
Imagination, ed. Murray
Pomerance (New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 2007).
“Low Hopes: Mike Leigh Meets Margaret Thatcher,” in Fires
Were Started:
British Cinema and Thatcherism,
second edition, ed. Lester D.
Friedman (London: Wallflower
Press, 2006).
“Fuller, Foucault, and Forgetting: The Eye of Power in Shock
Corridor,”” in Cinema
and Modernity, ed. Murray Pomerance (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 2006).
“Festivals” and “Robert Redford,” in The
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film,
ed. Barry Keith Grant (New York:
Schirmer, 2006).
“Lumet: Endlessly Energetic,” in Sidney Lumet: Interviews,
ed. Joanna E.
Rapf (Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 2006).
“Alphaville: Un Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution,”
in
Understanding Film Genres, ed.
Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast,
Steven Jay Schneider (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2006).
“Liv Ullmann: Norway’s Glittering Gift to World
Film,” in Liv Ullmann:
Interviews, ed. Robert Emmet Long
(Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 2006).
“Jack Kerouac,” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American
Poets and
Poetry, ed. Jeffrey Gray
(Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group,
2005).
“Irréversible: The Backward Gaze,” in The X List:
The National Society of
Film Critics’ Guide to the
Movies That Turn Us On, ed. Jami Bernard
(New York: Da Capo Press, 2005)
“The Prisoner of Splendor: An Interview with Harvey Pekar,”
written with
Mikita Brottman, in Creeping
Flesh: The Horror Fantasy Film Book,
Vol. 2, ed. David Kerekes
(Manchester: Criticial Vision/Headpress,
2005)
“Representing Atrocity: From the Holocaust to September
11,” in Film and
Television After 9/11, ed. Wheeler
Winston Dixon (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University
Press, 2004).
“Allegory and Enigma: Fantasy’s Enduring Appeal,” in
Contemporary
Literature Criticism 193 (Oklahoma
City: The Gale Group, 2004).
“Shadow of the Vampire,” in Film Review Annual: 2001—
Films of 2000, ed. Jerome Ozer,
(Englewood: Film Review
Publications, 2004).
“Introduction” and “Laughs and Deep Themes,” in
Terry Gilliam:
Interviews, ed. David Sterritt and
Lucille Rhodes (Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 2004).
“Lost in La Mancha: The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of Terry
Gilliam,” written with
Mikita Brottman, in Terry Gilliam: Interviews,
ed. David Sterritt and
Lucille Rhodes (Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 2004).
“Fargo in Context: The Middle of Nowhere?” in The Coen
Brothers’ Fargo,
ed. William Luhr (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003).
“The Wrong Man,” in The Hidden God, ed. Mary Lea Bandy and
Antonio
Monda (New York: The Museum of
Modern Art, 2003).
“L’Humanité,” written with Mikita Brottman, in
The Hidden God, ed.
Mary Lea Bandy and Antonio Monda
(New York: The Museum of
Modern Art, 2003).
Multiple Titles, The 1,001 Films You Must See Before You Die, ed.
Steven Schneider (London: Quintet
Publishing, 2003).
“Hitchcock, Bakhtin, and the Carnivalization of Cinema,” in
Framing
Hitchcock: Selected Essays from
the Hitchcock Annual, ed. Sidney
Gottlieb and Christopher
Brookhouse (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 2002).
“Alfred Hitchcock: Registrar of Births and Deaths,” in
Framing Hitchcock:
Selected Essays from the Hitchcock
Annual, ed. Sidney Gottlieb and
Christopher Brookhouse (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 2002).
“Breathless,” in The A List: The National Society of Film
Critics’ 100
Essential Films, ed. Jay Carr (New
York: Da Capo Press, 2002).
“Nashville,” in The A List: The National Society of Film
Critics’ 100
Essential Films, ed. Jay Carr (New
York: Da Capo Press, 2002).
“Do the Right Thing,” in The A List: The National Society
of Film Critics’
100 Essential Films, ed. Jay Carr
(New York: Da Capo Press, 2002).
“The Personal Is Political for a Chinese Director,” in
Frances Gateward, ed.,
Zhang Yimou: Interviews (Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi,
2001).
“Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead,” in Car
Crash Culture,
ed. Mikita Brottman (New York:
Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001).
“Mike Leigh Calls It as He Sees It,” in Mike Leigh:
Interviews, ed. Howie
Movshovitz (Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 2000).
“Introduction” and “Director Builds Metaphor for Jazz
in Kansas City,” in
Robert Altman: Interviews,
ed. David Sterritt (Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 2000).
“Jane Campion Directs on Instinct,” in Jane Campion:
Interviews, ed.
Virginia Wright Wexman (Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi,
1999).
“Introduction” and “Ideas, Not Plots, Inspire
Jean-Luc Godard,” in Jean-Luc
Godard: Interviews, ed.
David Sterritt (Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 1998.
“Notes: Meredith Monk,” in Meredith Monk, ed. Deborah
Jowitt (Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1997).
“Miéville and Godard: From Psychology to Spirit,” in
Jean-Luc Godard's
Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in
Film, ed. Maryel Locke and
Charles Warren (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1993).
“Robert Altman,” in American Directors, ed. Jean-Pierre
Coursodon (New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1983).
“Motion Pictures,” in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Yearbooks, ed.
Robert Halasz (New York: Funk
& Wagnalls, 1981, 1982, 1983).
“Motion Pictures,” in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Yearbooks, ed.
Albert Bennett. (New York: Funk
& Wagnalls, 1979, 1980).
Blogs (selected):
The Huffington Post, 2008, 2009
The Political Film Blog, 2009
Rokovoko, 2006-2007
DVD commentaries, essays, appearances:
In press: “This Side of Paradise,” Program Essay for The
Thin Red Line, The
Criterion Collection, 2010.
Appearance, The Master’s Touch: Hitchcock’s Signature
Style, in North by
Northwest, 50th Anniversary Edition,
Warner Home Video, 2010.
Appearance, Jean-Luc Godard: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma, in The
Jean-Luc Godard Box Set, Lionsgate, 2008
Appearance, Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of the Master, in Rear
Window, Universal Legacy Series, 2008
Appearance, Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock, in Rear Window,
Universal Legacy Series, 2008
Appearance, Partners in Crime; Hitchcock’s Collaborators, in Rear
Window, Universal Legacy Series, 2008
Appearance, In the Master’s Shadow: Hitchcock’s Legacy, in
Psycho,
Universal Legacy Series, 2008
Essay, “The Two of Us: War and Peace,” The Criterion
Collection, 2007
Essay, “Sweet Movie: Wake Up!” The Criterion Collection,
2007
Commentaries, Essential Directors Series – Jean-Luc Godard,
Wellspring
Media, 2007
Essay, Essential Directors Series – Jean-Luc Godard, Wellspring
Media,
2007
Commentary, Weekend, New Yorker Video, 2005
Essay, Weekend, New Yorker Video, 2005
Essay, Notre Musique, Wellspring, 2005
Essay, 3 Women, The Criterion Collection, 2004
Commentary, Breathless, Winstar TV and Video, 2001
Commentary, Le Petit Soldat, Winstar TV and Video, 2001
Commentary, Les Carabiniers, Winstar TV and Video, 2001
Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper Publications (selected):
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy:
Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie
de Langue Française
Forthcoming: “Schizoanalyzing Souls: Godard, Deleuze, and the
Mystical
Line of Flight.” 2010.
CounterPunch
www.counterpunch.org
“Screening the Politics Out of the Iraq War.” July 24-26
2009.
The Huffington Post
www.huffingtonpost.com
“Faith! Family! Films! And the Crystal Teddy Goes
to…” 12 January 2009.
“Do Film Critics Have a Future? Who Cares?” 31 October 2008.
The Criterion Collection Current
www.criterion.com/current
Book Notes: “Robert Altman: The Oral Biography.” 2010.
Moving Image Source
www.movingimagesource.us
“Psycho Analyzed: The Hitchcock classic At 50, still inspiring
discussion
and debate.” March 2010.
Tikkun
“Suspense, Malaise, and the Movies.” 2:14, May-June 2010.
“Hagiopics from Hollywood.” 2:13, March-April 2010.
“Political Pictures.” 23:11, November-December 2009.
“Feeding the Danger Habit.” 23:10, September-October 2009.
“Angels, Demons, MacGuffins, and the Goldbergs.” 23:9,
July-August
2009.
“Hollywood’s Holocaust.” 23:8, May-June 2009.
“Wrestling with Real Life.” 23:7, March-April 2009.
“Cherisma.” 23:6, January-February 2009.
New Review of Film and Television Studies
“Schizophrenizing cinema: rhizomatics, dualisms, and the infinite
`and…and…and…’.” 8:1, March 2010.
“Spielberg, Iconophobia, and the Mimetic Uncanny.” 7:1,
March 2009.
The New York Times
“On the Road With an Eccentric, Provocative Mom.” Arts
& Leisure
(Section 2) May 14, 2000.
“Alienated, Spontaneous, Nonpolitical: Sounds Familiar.”
Arts & Leisure
(Section 2), August 29, 1999.
Cahiers du Cinéma
“Optimism, Pessimism.” April, 2005.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
“Revision, Prevision, and the Aura of Improvisatory Art.”
58:2, Spring
2000.
WashingtonPost.com
www.washingtonpost.com
“Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films.” 30 July 2007.
Film-Philosophy Journal/Salon/Portal
www.film-philosophy.com (United Kingdom)
“Visions and Revisions: Hollywood’s Alternative
Worlds.”
14:10, 2010.
“Hitchcock, Hume, and the Matrix of Modern Cinema.” 11:3,
2007.
“Godardiana: A Reply to Marcia Landy.” 6:31, 2002
“Bressonians on Bresson.” 5:21, 2001.
“Speaking and Writing about Godard: A Response to Nochimson and
Sutton.” 4:8, 2000.
Film International
In progress: “Eight Films by Kenji Mizoguchi.”
In press: “L’Argent.”
“Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain.” 7:4, 2009.
“The First Films of Samuel Fuller.” 7:3, 2009.
“Regular Lovers.” 6:3, 2008.
“Filmosophy” 6:2, 2008.
“The Rifleman.” 4:5, 2006.
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (Canada)
“Kerouac, Artaud, and the Baroque Period of the Three
Stooges.” 31:4,
December 1998.
The Chronicle of Higher Education/The Chronicle Review
“At 50, Hitchcock’s Timeless Vertigo Still Offers a
Dizzying Array of
Gifts.” 54:40. June 13,
2008. (cover article)
“DVD Access to the Avant-Garde.” 52:26. March 3, 2006.
(cover article)
“Film, Philosophy, and Terrence Malick’s The New
World.” 52:18. January
6, 2006. (cover article)
“An Inspired Collection Honors a Founder of the Indie
Movement.” 51:19.
January 14, 2005.
“Offbeat Directors’ Sophistication Isn’t Always
Accompanied by Emotional
Maturity.” 51:12. November
12, 2004.
“For Director Mike Leigh, the Personal and Political Are One and
the
Same.” 51:7. October 8, 2004.
“Touching the Void in Our Lives,” written with Mikita
Brottman. 50:49.
August 13, 2004.
“Spider Reveals a More Nuanced Cronenberg,” written with
Mikita
Brottman. 49:21. January 23, 2003.
“Allegory and Enigma: Fantasy’s Enduring Appeal,”
written with Mikita
Brottman. 48:17. December 21, 2001.
“Hollywood’s Metaphors,” written with Mikita
Brottman. Essay in
“Reflections on the
Fractured Landscape: September 11, 2001, and Its
Aftermath.” 48:5. September
28, 2001.
“Coppola, Apocalypse Now, and the Ambivalent 70’s.”
47:47. August 3,
2001.
“How `Festival Overload Syndrome’ Affects Critics.”
46:48. August 4,
2000.
“40 Years Ago, Breathless Was Hyperactive Anarchy. Now It’s
Part of the
Canon.” 46:31. April 7, 2000.
Arts & Letters Daily
aldaily.com
“DVD Access to the Avant-Garde.” March 2006.
Hitchcock Annual
In press: “The Destruction That Wasteth at Noonday:
Hitchcock’s
Atheology.” 2010.
“After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and
Intertextuality.” 2006-2007.
“Alfred Hitchcock: Registrar of Births & Deaths.”
1997-1998.
“The Diabolic Imagination: Hitchcock, Bakhtin, and the
Carnivalization of
Cinema.” 1992.
Film Quarterly
In progress: “Malick, Haneke, Et Alia.”
In press: “Contemporary Film Directors.” 64:1, Fall 2010.
“Cléo de 5 à 7 and 8½.” 63:4, Summer
2010.
“Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King and The World and Its
Double: The Life and Work or Otto
Preminger.” 63:3, Spring 2010..
“Six Books About Scorsese.” 63:2, Winter 2009-2010.
“Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Gertrud: The Moving
Word.”63:1, Fall 2009.
“Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony.” 62:3, Spring 2009.
“The Films of Kyzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image and The
Cinema of
Kyzysztof Kieslowski: Variations on
Destiny and Chance.” 59:2. Winter
2005-2006.
“Irreversible,” written with Mikita Brottman. 57:2. Winter
2003.
Cineaste
In progress: “The Complete History of American Film
Criticism” and “Los
Angeles Before Hollywood: Journalism and
American Film Culture,
1905 to 1915.”
In press: “Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story.”
“New Lives for Nontheatrical Films on DVD.” 35:3,
Summer 2010.
“The Red Riding Trilogy.” 35:3, Summer 2010.
“Rembrandt’s J’accuse.” 35:2, Spring 2010.
“The Dead.” 35:2, Spring 2010.
“Trumbo.” 35:1, Winter 2009.
“Wise Blood.” 34:4. Fall 2009.
“The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema.” 34:3. Summer 2009.
“Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Patriotism: The Rite of
Love and
Death.” 34:2. Spring
2009.
“Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc
Godard.” 34:1. Winter
2008.
“The Fire Within and The Lovers.” 34:1, Winter 2008.
“Bonnie and Clyde.” 33: 4. Fall 2008.
“Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks.”
33:3. Summer
2008.
“Days of Heaven.” 33:3. Summer 2008.
“Les Enfants terribles.” 33:2. Spring 2008.
“Late Ozu.” 33:1. Winter 2007.
“The 400 Blows.” 32:1. Winter 2006.
“Kind Hearts and Coronets.” 31:3. Summer 2006.
“Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side.”
31:2. Spring
2006.
“Unfaithfully Yours.” 31:2.Spring 2006.
“Burden of Dreams.” 31:1. Winter 2005.
“John Cassavetes: A Filmmaker Under the Influence.” 30:4.
Fall 2005.
“Power Trip.” 29:2. Spring 2004.
“Hell House.” 28:1. Winter 2002.
“Monty Python: Lust for Glory.” (Written with Lucille
Rhodes) 26:4. Fall
2001.
Essay in “Film Criticism in America Today: A Critical
Symposium.” 26:1.
2001.
“Shadow of the Vampire.” 25:4. 2000.
“Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film
Criticism.” 25:3.
July 2000.
“David Sterritt Replies.” 25:3. July 2000.
“Man on the Moon.” 25:2. March 2000. (cover article)
“Being John Malkovich.” 25.2. March 2000.
“The Source.” 24:4. September 1999.
Cineaste.com
In press: Lubitsch in Berlin: Fairy-Tales, Melodramas, and Sex
Comedies.”
“Trumbo on Trumbo: An Interview with Christopher Trumbo.”
Winter
2009.
“Grin Without a Cat.” Fall 2009.
“Albert Maysles.” Summer 2009.
“Primo Levi’s Journey.” Spring 2009.
“Four Films by Alain Resnais.” Fall 2008.
“Class Relations.” Summer 2008.
“Cinema 16.” Spring 2008
The Political Film Blog
politicalfilm.wordpress.com
“The Hurt Locker (2009), Cultural Politics and Uncritical
Critics.” 25 July
2009.
PopMatters
www.popmatters.com
“Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives.”
July 2008.
“The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film Noir
(1940-1949).
March 2008.
“Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism.” February 2008.
“Best of…” capsules. January 2008.
“James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel
Iconography.”
October 2007.
“Hitchcock and Philosophy: Dial M for Metaphysics.” August
2007.
“Gangster Film Reader.” July 2007.
“The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from
Eraserhead
to Mulholland Dr.”
June 2007.
“Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares.” May 2007.
“Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s
Golden Age at
the American Film
Institute.” May 2007.
“Abel Ferrara.” April 2007.
“The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography.” March
2007 (front
page feature).
“The Rough Guide to Westerns.” February 2007.
“What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and
Cold
War America.” January 2007.
“Cursed From Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S.
Burroughs, Jr.”
October 2006.
“Chris Marker.” September 2006.
Sexuality and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
“Henry James’s Most Beloved Boy.” 9:4 (Fall 2005).
Turner Classic Movies
www.tcm.com
Forthcoming: “Shadows.” “Ryan’s
Daughter.” “The History of Hollywood.”
“The Magic Box.” “The Birth of a Nation.” Et
cetera.
2010: “Autumn Sonata.” “The Blind Woman of
Sorrento.” “Babbitt.” “The
Day I Became a
Woman.” “Let There Be Light.” “Abraham
Lincoln.”
“Dangerous
Exile.” “The Bad Sleep Well.” “Magnum
Force.” “Sinful
Davey.”
2009: “Eréndira ikikunari.” “The
Exiles.” “55 Days at Peking.” “Cry, the
Beloved
Country.” “Elmer Gantry.” “Ruby
Gentry.” “Mondays in the
Sun.”
“Same Old Song.” “Dead Reckoning.” “The
Harder They Fall.”
“J.W.
Coop.” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”
“Shadow.” “How the West
Was Won.”
“Juke Girl.” “Lovers and Lollipops.” “The
Avenging
Conscience.”
2008: “Moolaadé.” “The Bitter Tea of General
Yen.” “Look Back in Anger.”
“The Wings of
the Dove.” “The End of the Affair.” “The
Pumpkin
Eater.”
“La Vie en rose.” “Amistad.” “The Man
with a Cloak.”
“Where’s
Poppa?” “The Man from Down Under.” “Dr.
Monica.”
“Only Two
Can Play.” “Swing High, Swing Low.” “Street
Girl.” “They
Gave Him a
Gun.” “Young at Heart.” “The Fabulous
Dorseys.”
“Crossroads.” “Blind Alley.” “Union
Station.”
2007: “Killer of Sheep.” “Here Comes the Navy.”
“Man Push Cart.” “The Smart Set.” “Tous
les matins du monde.” “Kes.” “Robinson’s
Garden.” “The Short Life of José Antonio
Gutierrez.” “The Fire Within.” “Gaily,
Gaily.” “Big Jake.” “Will Penny.”
“David and Lisa.” “Cruel Story of Youth.”
“Man on a String.” “Brotherly Love.” “The
Howards of Virginia.” “The Angels Wash Their Faces.”
“Prince of the City.” “The Fox.” “Gallant
Journey.” “True Confessions.” “All That
Jazz.” “Woyzeck.” “The Informer.”
With Mikita Brottman:
2007: “The Cranes Are Flying.” “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?” “The
Silence of the
Lambs.” “The Goddess.” “Where the Heart
Roams.”
“Otomo.” “Ladies in Retirement.” “Gideon
of Scotland Yard.” “The
Big
Carnival/Ace in the Hole.” “Island in the Sky.”
“The Well.”
“Ginger and Fred.” “The Saint Takes Over.”
2006: “Hail Mary.” “All the King’s Men.”
“They Shoot Horses, Don’t
They?”
“Petulia.” “The Naked Spur.”
“American Madness.” “Motion
Picture
Masterpieces.” “Four Shorts by George Sidney.”
“Two shorts
by Buster
Keaton.”
MovieMaker
“New Waves in Moviemaking, Then and Now.” 16:84, Fall 2009.
“Steven Soderbergh Starts a Revolution.” 79:16, Winter
2009. (cover
article).
“Guerrilla Moviemaking: Benicio Del Toro connects with Che
Guevara any
which way he can.” 79:16, Winter
2009. (cover article).
“Hollywood Then and Now: Is the Media Murdering Our Most
Talented
Movie Stars?” 76:15, Summer 2008).
“Gus Van Sant Reaches His Formative Years.” 73:15, Winter
2008.
“Remember the Titans: Ingmar Bergman and Michangelo Antonioni
leave
behind two of cinema’s greatest
legacies.” 72:14, Fall 2007.
“The Music Man: With Capone Rising and Leningrad, beat goes on
for
legendary maestro Ennio
Morricone.” 72:14, Fall 2007.
“Retribution for a Working Class Moviemaker.” 68:14, Spring
2007.
“Year of the Indie.” 13:63, Summer 2006.
“Beyond Brokeback: Has Gay Cinema Entered the Mainstream?”
13:62,
Spring 2006. (cover article).
“The Ecstasy of Truth: Werner Herzog Seeks New Horizons,
Coalitions, and
Ways of Making Movies.” 12:59,
Summer 2005. (cover article).
Senses of Cinema (Australia)
www.sensesofcinema.com.au
“A Reflection.” (Written with Mikita Brottman) 7, December
2001.
“Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead.” 14, June
2001.
“Report on the 4th Bermuda International Film Festival.”
14, June 2001.
“Taste of Kiarostami.” 9, September-October 2000.
“Renaldo & Clara Meet John Cage: Aleatory Cinema and the
Aesthetics of
Incompetence.” 5, April 2000.
“Permanent Ghosts: Cinephilia in the Age of the Internet and
Video – Essay
3.” 4, March 2000.
Top Ten. Senses of Cinema Archive.
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
In press: “Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-Garde Art
Movements
in the Early Twentieth Century.”
28.4, August 2011.
In press: “Porgy and Bess, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Love
Streams.”
27:5, December 2010.
“The Cinema of Britain and Ireland.” 26.1, 2008.
“Time Destroys All Things: An Interview With Gaspar
Noé.” 24:4,
July 2007.
“The Future is Digital Cinema”: An Interview with Arturo
Ripstein and Paz
Alicia Garciadiego,” 21:1,
January-March 2004.
“Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic.” 17:4, November
2000.
Undercurrent
www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/index.htm
“Film Festivals – Then and Now.” 6, April 2010.
“Targets.” 6, April 2010.
“Gideon’s Day.” 5, May 2009.
“Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film.” 4, October 2008.
“Film, Philosophy, and Terrence Malick.” 2, July 2006.
Beliefnet
www.beliefnet.com
“H.G. Wells Meets 9/11: Steven Spielberg’s War of the
Worlds. July 2005.
21st C: The World of Research at Columbia University
“Words and Meaning in the Age of Images.” May 1998.
Film Comment
“8 1/2 Women.” 37:1, January-February 2001.
“State and Main.” 36:6, November-December 2000.
“With Borrowed Eyes.” 36:4, July-August 2000.
“The Idiots.” 36:2, March-April 2000.
“The End of the Affair.” 36:1, January-February 2000.
“A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries.” 34:5, September
1998.
“Featuring…Jeffrey Jones, Peter Riegert.” 25:6
(November-December
1989).
Cinema Scope (Canada)
“Werckmeister Harmoniak.” 4, Summer 2000.
“Cinema Years 90 Nine Zero: Godard in the Nineties.” 2,
Winter 2000.
Ventures in Research
“Defining the Situation: Brando, Role-Playing, and the Western as
Performance Art.” 2001.
“Screening the Holocaust: Night and Fog to Schindler's
List.” 1997.
Blimp: Zeitschrift für Film (Austria)
“Film Culture.” 29, Summer 1994.
“Avant-Garde Film: Recent Trends and Key Works.” 20, Summer
1992.
Stagebill
“A Talk With the Film Society of Lincoln Center.” 1995.
Islands
Video reviews, 2001-3: “Horrors of Spider Island.”
“Boom.” “Under
Suspicion.” “Cast
Away.” “The Thin Red Line.” “Before Night
Falls.”
“The Widow of St-Pierre.”
“Jurassic Park III.” “The Wicker Man.”
“Pearl Harbor.” “What
Time Is It There?” “Lilo & Stitch.” “Rabbit-
Proof Fence.” “Bend It Like
Beckham.” “Sex and Lucia.” “Step Into
Liquid.” “Whale
Rider.” And others.
“The Reef, Up Close.” 23:2, March 2003.
Book reviews, 2002: “Cityscapes: A History of New York in
Images.” “It
Happened in Manhattan: An Oral History
of Life in the City During the
Mid-Twentieth Century.”
“A Brighter Day Dawns.” 20:7, November 2000.
City Paper (Minneapolis)
“Order of the Day.” 23:1111, March 20, 2002.
IfcRant
“Moses & Me: An Interview With Michael Moore.” (Written
with Mikita
Brottman) September-October 2002.
The Festival Daily (Toronto International Film Festival)
Columnist, daily Page 1 column, 2002
“Reflections on movies a year after Sept. 11.” 7:3
(September 11, 2002).
IndieWire
www.indiewire.com
Film reviews (Written with Mikita Brottman), Cannes International Film
Festival, 2002.
Film reviews (Written with Mikita Brottman), New York Film Festival,
Lincoln Center, 2002.
“A Master and His Embattled Epic; Martin Scorsese’s Gangs
of New York.
(Written with Mikita Brottman) December
2002.
Village Voice
Commentary in “Take Six: The Annual Film Critics Poll,”
2004.
National Society of Film Critics
nsfc.zap2it.com/nsfc/cda/index.jsp
Assorted film annotations, 2005.
Rokovoko: A Zine of Arts & Living
Rokovoko.com
The Cinema Page. 2008.
Rokovoko: The D.C. Zine of Arts & Letters
Rokovoko.blogspot.com
Film in Focus/Movies in Brief. 2007.
“Critic’s Notes: The Maryland Film Festival –
2007.” May 2007.
“Warhol—Complicated in His Implications.” September
2006.
Film Scouts
www.filmscouts.com
Asssorted articles and reviews, 1995- .
Facets Multi-Media
www.facets.org/features/celebrityfaves/celebfavess/cfsterritt
“10 movies that influenced me”
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
www.ralphbunche.com
“An interview with filmmaker William Greaves.” 2001.
Simply Charly
www.simplycharly.com
Simply Hitchcock – “Not for the Birds: David Sterritt Zooms
in on the
Mystery and Mastery of Hitchcock’s
Movies.” 2008
Lectures and Academic Presentations (selected):
Forthcoming: “Godard, Schizoanalysis, and the Immaculate
Conception of the Frame.” Panel on “Godardian Legacy in
Philosophy,” Conference on SonImage: The legacies of Jean-Luc
Godard. University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2010.
Forthcoming: Speaker, Panel on “Film Criticism.” Graduate
Center, City University of New York, 2010.
“Twilight in Tokyo: Ozu, Hollywood, and the Poetics of Film
Noir.” Panel on “Fifty Years of Cinema Studies, Fifty Years
Since Film Noir” in Conference of the Society for Cinema and
Media Studies, Los Angeles, 2010.
“Writing About Film: Styles, Themes, and Variations.”
Workshop in Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los
Angeles, 2010.
“Being and Becoming: The Actual, the Virtual, and Avatar.”
Engaged Humanities Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara,
Calif., 2010.
“Arthurian Myth, Legend, and Romance.” Presentations at
Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif., 2010.
“Twilight in Tokyo: Ozu, Hollywood, and the Poetics of Film
Noir.” Panel on “Fifty Years of Cinema Studies, Fifty Years
Since Film Noir.” Formally accepted by Conference of the Society
for Cinema and Media Studies, Tokyo, 2009. (Conference canceled due to
pandemic.)
“Sound Waves: Minimalist Music, Structural Film, and the
Prelinguistic Real.” Panel on “Sounds of Music, Film and
Psychoanalysis” in Interdisciplinary Conference on Daring to
Speak: Languages Spoken and Unspoken, International Forum for
Psychoanalytic Education, Seattle, 2009.
“An Evening with David Sterritt: Su and Todd – Bourgeois
Families, Avant-Garde Films.” BU Cinematheque. Boston University,
2009.
“The Symbolic Language of Cinema.” Engaged Humanities
Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif., 2009.
“Myth and Symbol in Film.” Engaged Humanities Program,
Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif., 2009.
“Depth Psychology and Documentary Film.” Presentations at
Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, Calif., 2009.
“Cocteau, Cinema, and Psychology.” Presentation at Pacifica
Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, Calif., 2009.
“Representing Atrocity: 9/11 Through the Holocaust Lens” in
Conference on Stars of David: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema,
Arizona State University, 2008.
“Steven Spielberg’s Flesh Fair: Film, Fantasy, and Death
Denied.” Panel on “Death and Representation” in The
Austin H. Kutscher Memorial Conference: The Pulse of Death Now,
University Seminar on Death, Columbia University, New York, 2008.
“The Destruction That Wasteth at Noonday: Frenzy, Theodicy, and
Horrendous Evil,” with Mikita Brottman. Panel on “Hitchcock
and Morality” in Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media
Studies, Philadelphia, 2008.
“New York City in Cinema.” Dutch Open Studio. Times Square
Art Center, New York, 2008.
“Spielberg, Iconophobia, and the Mimetic Uncanny,” with
Mikita Brottman. International Conference on Spielberg at Sixty.
University of Lincoln, England, 2007.
“Pecunia Olet: Obscene Amounts of Money,” with Mikita
Brottman. Panel on “Bad Language” in Obscenity: An
Interdisciplinary Discussion, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies,
2007 Humanities Symposium, University of Iowa, 2007.
Speaker, Panels on “Introduction to the Current State of Film
Criticism,” “Traditional and Evolving Models of Film
Criticism,” and “The Future Outlook for Film Criticism in
the United States” in Beyond Thumbs Up: A Critical Look at Film
Criticism, Seminar of the Coolidge Corner Theatre and Cineaste,
Brookline, Mass., 2007.
“Pecunia Olet,” with Mikita Brottman. Humanities Research
Seminar, Baltimore, 2007.
Presentation on Psycho. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore,
2007.
Presentation on Gilles Deleuze and Experimental Film. Maryland
Institute College of Art, Baltimore, 2007.
“Spontaneous Bop Playwriting: Pull My Daisy Meets The Beat
Generation.” Featured lecture in “The 1950’s, the
Beat Generation, & the Power of Expression.” O.C. Tanner
Symposium, Utah State University School of the
Arts, 2006.
Speaker, Panel on The Da Vinci Code, University Seminar on Studies in
Religion, Columbia University, New York, 2006.
“Fear and Loathing in Thatcher’s England: Mike Leigh in the
1980s.” Panel on “Fragmentation and Estrangement: Space,
Form and Family in the Films of Mike Leigh” in Conference of the
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, London, 2005.
Co-Chair (with Mikita Brottman), Panel on “Fragmentation and
Estrangement: Space, Form and Family in the Films of Mike Leigh.”
Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, London, 2005.
“The Aesthetics of Netporn: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the
Primitive.” Panel on “Porn Meets Brain: Netporn
Theory” in The Institute of Network Cultures Conference on
“The Art and Politics of Netporn,” Amsterdam, 2005.
“Cinephilia, Cinemania, Cinema.” Presentation to University
Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Columbia
University, New York, 2005.
Speaker, Panel on Gattaca and Bioethics, Center for Bioethics and
Society for Law, Health, and Bioethics, et al, Roone Arledge Cinema,
Columbia University, 2004.
Speaker, Panel on “Mel Gibson’s Film, The Passion of the
Christ,” Columbia University Seminars on Studies in Religion,
Religion in America, and Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation,
2004.
Respondent, “The Hagiopic and the Conservative Agenda,”
paper by Pamela Grace, University Seminar on Cinema and
Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Faculty House, Columbia University,
2004.
“An Experiment in Time: Gaspar Noé’s
Irreversible,” with Mikita Brottman.
Panel on “Images of Apocalypse” in Conference on Literature
and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee, January 2003.
“Representing Atrocity: From the Holocaust to 9/11.”
Presentation in Panel on “Images of Suffering.” Conference
of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, 2003.
“Noé Stands Alone: Sex, Death, and Destiny in
Irreversible.” Presentation in Panel on “Auteurs and
Aesthetics.” Born to Be Bad 2: Trash Cinema Conference and Film
Festival, University of California at Berkeley, 2003.
“Eye Myths: Emotion in Abstract Film,” with Mikita
Brottman. Lecture at
University Seminar on Love Studies, Earth Institute/Center for the
Study of Science and Religion, Columbia University, 2003.
“High Art, Low Art, Hitchcock’s Art.” Lecture at
Maryland Institute College of Art, February 2003.
Presentation on Steven Spielberg and A.I., The Earth Institute/Center
for the Study of Science and Religion, Roone Arledge Cinema, Columbia
University, 2003.
“Three Infernal Jokes: Laughter, Horror, and Film,” with
Mikita Brottman.
Panel on “Film Comedy Today.” Conference of the Modern
Language Association, N.Y., 2002.
“Fuller, Foucault, and Forgetting: The Eye of Power in Shock
Corridor.”
Presentation in Panel on “Violence, Horror, Marginality.”
Conference on
Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee, January
2002.
“In Memoriam.” Presentation delivered in Panel on
“The World Trade Center Disaster and the Media.” University
Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Columbia
University, February 2002.
Respondent, “Warhol and James Dean,” paper by Roy
Grundmann,
University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation,
Faculty
House, Columbia University, April 2002.
“What’s Wrong With Robin Williams?,” with Mikita
Brottman. Presentation at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference,
Panel on “Reconfiguring
Celebrity Ideology: Readings Against the Grain,” Denver, May 2002.
Co-Chair (with Mikita Brottman), Panel on “Reconfiguring
Celebrity Ideology: Readings Against the Grain,” at Society for
Cinema Studies annual conference, Denver, May 2002.
“Tragedy and Representation From the Holocaust to 9/11.”
Lecture at conference on “War and Peace: The Reality,” Long
Island University, November 2002.
“Modernism, Postmodernism, and Godard.” Lecture at the
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 2001.
“Acrostics, Evasions, Theopathies: Freud and the Supernatural in
Nabokov’s `The Vane Sisters,’ ” with Mikita Brottman.
Presentation to Modern Language Association annual conference, Panel
arranged by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, New Orleans,
December 2001.
“Identity and Self-Representation: Cinematic Challenges and
Opportunities.” Keynote Address, Conference of American Jewish
Film Festivals, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Washington,
D.C., November 2001.
“Wavelength Meets Four Organs: Repetition, Attentuation, and
Gradual Process in Film and Music.” Presentation delivered at
Society for Cinema Studies annual conference. Panel on “Film and
the Avant-Garde in the ‘60s and ‘70s: Neglected Works, New
Perspectives,” Washington, D.C., 2001.
“Film and the Transcendent: Thoughts and Observations,”
with Mikita Brottman. Presentation delivered to Religious Faith and
Literary Art: Art &
Soul Conference, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2001.
“Movies, Media, and Morality.” Presentation delivered to
University Seminar on Moral Education, Columbia University, N.Y., 2001.
“What Role Should European Cinema Play in a Globalized Movie
Industry?” Presentation delivered in Panel on “Defining
European Cinema’s Identity,” Symposium on “European
Cinema and Globalization: Cultural and
Commercial Challenges,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European
Studies,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2000.
Moderator, Panel on “International Trade of a Cultural Good: The
Case of
Cinema,” Symposium on “European Cinema and Globalization:
Cultural and
Commercial Challenges,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European
Studies,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2000.
“Renaldo & Clara Meet John Cage: Aleatory Cinema and the
Aesthetic of
Incompetence.” Presentation delivered at Society for Cinema
Studies
annual conference Panel on “Giving Hollywood the Slip(page): The
Carnivalesque in Musical Movies.” Chicago, 2000.
Co-Chair (with Martha P. Nochimson), Panel on “Giving Hollywood
the Slip(page): The Carnivalesque in Musical Movies,” at Society
for Cinema Studies annual conference. Chicago, 2000.
“The Spiritual Impulse in American Avant-Garde Film.”
Lecture delivered at symposium on Art & Soul: Religious Faith and
Literary Art, Baylor
University, Texas, February 2000.
“Terry Gilliam: Imagemaker.” Lecture delivered (with
Lucille Rhodes) in C. W. Post Honors Program and Merit Fellowship
series, Long Island University, N.Y., March 2000.
“High Art, Low Art, Hitchcock’s Art.” Lecture
delivered at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999.
“Body and Soul in Godard’s Je vous salue Marie.”
Paper delivered at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference. Panel
on “Film and Metaphysics,” West Palm Beach, Florida, 1999.
Chair, Panel on Critical Perspectives, “Hitchcock: A Centennial
Celebration,” conference presented by New York University.
Plenary Session with Peter Wollen, James Naremore, et al, Directors
Guild Theater, N. Y. C., 1999.
“Kerouac's Desolation Angels : Film, Buddhism, and the Beat
Sensibility.” Paper delivered at Society for Cinema Studies
annual conference, Panel on
“Buddhism and Cinema,” La Jolla, California, 1998.
Moderator and Organizer, Colloquium on Film Criticism, Columbia
University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, New
York, 1998.
“Defining the Situation: Brando, Role-Playing, and the Western as
Performance Art.” Paper delivered in Ventures in Research Seminar
Series, C.W. Post Campus/Long Island University, 1998.
“Politics, Poetics, Paradoxes: The Films of Godard and
Company.”
Lecture delivered in Dickstein-Gottlieb Lecture Series, Sacred Heart
University, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1997.
“Alfred Hitchcock: Registrar of Births & Deaths.” Paper
delivered at
Conference on The Late Alfred Hitchcock: Re-Viewing Hitch With Twenty-
Twenty Vision, Plenary Session, Baylor University, Austin, Texas, 1996.
“Critics, Christianity, and CinemaScope: Reviewing The
Robe.” Paper
delivered at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference. Panel on
“Film
and the Religious Subject,” University of North Texas, Dallas,
Texas, 1996.
“Spontaneous Bop Filmmaking: Stan Brakhage Meets the Beat
Generation.”
Paper delivered to Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and
Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., 1996.
“Opera and Film.” Lecture delivered to The Metropolitan
Opera Guild, Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center, N.Y., 1995.
“Documenting the Holocaust: Night and Fog to Schindler's
List.” Paper
delivered in Ventures in Research Seminar Series, Long Island
University,
1995.
Respondent, “Visconti and Verga,” paper by Noa Steimatsky,
Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary
Interpretation, Film Study Center, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., 1995.
“Avant-Garde Film: Genet, Ahwesh, Sanborn, and Smith.”
Lecture at
Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1992.
“Trends in Contemporary Film.” Lecture delivered at
Principia College, Elsah, Ill., 1990.
Respondent, “Eternal Verités,” paper by William
Rothman, Beyond
Document Seminar, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass., 1989.
“Godard, Miéville, and The Book of Mary.” Lecture
delivered at conference on Hail Mary, Carpenter Center for the Visual
Arts, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass., 1987.
Program Notes and Essays:
“The Ecstasy of Truth: Werner Herzog Seeks New Ways of Making
Movies.” San Francisco
International Film Festival Program Guide,
April 2006; San Francisco Film Society
Awards Night program, April
2006.
Program annotations, Museum of the Moving Image/American Museum of
the Moving Image, 2000-2006.
“The Passenger.” Press Notes Essay for Michelangelo
Antonioni film, Sony
Pictures Classics, 2005.
“Note of Menace.” The Film Watch, Telluride Film Festival,
2004.
“Last Year at Marienbad.” American Museum of the Moving
Image,
February 2001.
“From the 2000 Chairman.” New York Film Critics Circle,
2001.
“Topsy-Turvy.” New York Film Critics Circle, 2000.
“Terrence Malick.” New York Film Critics Circle, 1999.
“Music and Film.” San Francisco International Film
Festival, 1998.
“Views of Merchant Ivory: 3 Continents, 14 Films.”
Retrospective, 1998.
“Warren Sonbert: Man With a Movie Camera.” Museum of Modern
Art,
1994.
“David Thewlis.” New York Film Critics Circle, 1994.
Program annotation, Mill Valley Film Festival, California, 1993.
“Ten Years of the Next Wave.” Brooklyn Academy of Music,
1992.
Program and promotion annotations, New York Film Festival, Lincoln
Center, 1988-1992
“New Music and Meredith Monk.” San Francisco Symphony
Magazine, San
Francisco, 1982.
Liner Notes:
Our Lady of Late, composed and performed by Meredith Monk, Wergo
Spectrum CD, 1997; Wergo Spectrum
Records, 1985.
Programming / Curating:
Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater, A Beat Celebration!, 2004
American Museum of the Moving Image, Critical Passions, 2001
Critical Review Committee, The Unseen Cinema: American Independent
Film, 1893-1941, Anthology Film
Archives/Deutsches Filmmuseum,
1999-2000
Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., The Films of Jean-Luc Godard, 1999
Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater, N. Y., Jean-Luc Godard’s
Passion,
1999
Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., Mad to Be Saved, 1998
New York Film Festival, Selection Committee, 1988-1992
Juries and grant/award panels:
First-Round Judge, Annual Editorial Awards Contest, Association of
Alternative Newsweeklies, 2010, 2009,
2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Final-Round Judge, Annual Editorial Awards Contest, Association of
Alternative Newsweeklies, 2008
Juror, Documentary awards, Newport International Film Festival, 2007
Selection Committee, Gotham Film Awards, documentary category,
Independent Film Project, New York,
2006, 2004
Member, Artistic Committee, Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards in the
Arts, National Foundation for Jewish
Culture, 2006, 2003
Juror, “We Love New York” Documentary Feature Jury, Tribeca
Film
Festival, New York, 2005.
Member, Artistic Advisory Panel, Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards in
The Arts, National Foundation for Jewish
Culture, New York, 2005,
2001
Juror, “New York, New York” Narrative Feature Jury, Tribeca
Film
Festival, New York, 2004
Member, Avant-Garde Masters Grants Panel, National Film Preservation
Foundation, 2003
Juror, Film Critics International Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury, Moscow
International Film Festival, 2002
Juror, Film Critics International Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury,
Viennale—
Vienna International Film Festival, 2000
Juror, Golden Gate Awards Grand Prize Jury, San Francisco International
Film Festival, 2000
Juror, Grand Prize Jury for IFC2000 Student Film Competition,
Independent Feature Project, New York,
2000
Juror, Student Academy Awards, preliminary competition, sponsored by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences, conducted at American
Museum of the Moving Image, N.Y., 2002,
2000
Juror, Film Critics International Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury, Toronto
International Film Festival, 1999
Jury member, Mixed Messages film and video competition, New School for
Social Research/New School University,
N.Y.C., 1997
Jury member, Screen International Magazine, Cannes Film Festival,
1991-94
Film festivals:
Faculty, Goldring Arts Journalism at the Toronto International Film
Festival,
2008
Moderator and interviewer, “An Evening With Werner Herzog,”
Castro
Theater, San Francisco
International Film Festival, 2006
Moderator, “Visions of Reality: Werner Herzog and Frederick
Wiseman,”
House of Docs Program, Sundance
Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 2005
Moderator, Panel on “What’s Jewish in Jewish Humor,”
Brooklyn Jewish
Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of
Music, 2005
Introduction to The Manchurian Candidate, Central Park Film Festival,
Central Park Conservancy, N.Y., 2004
Moderator, Panel on Hollywoodism: Jews, Hollywood and the American
Dream, Brooklyn Jewish Film
Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music,
2004.
Moderator, Panel on My Architect with Nathaniel Kahn, Brooklyn Jewish
Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of
Music, 2004.
Moderator, Press conferences, Toronto International Film Festival, 2003
Moderator, Evening with Haskell Wexler, Philadelphia Film Festival,
2003
Speaker, Panel on “Car Crash Culture.” Born to Be Bad 2:
Trash Cinema
Conference and Film Festival, University
of California at Berkeley, 2003
Moderator, Panel on “Combating Racism Through Cinema,” with
Stanley
Crouch, Abbey Lincoln, and Michael
Roemer, Brooklyn Jewish Film
Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2002
Speaker, Panel on “The Role of Film in the Development of a
National
Culture,” Bermuda Society of the
Arts, Bermuda International Film
Festival, 2002
Moderator, Panel on “How Current Events Are Shaping the Business
of
Film Production in Israel,” Israel
Film Festival, N.Y., 2002
Moderator, Evening with Lewis Klahr, Toronto International Film
Festival,
September 2001.
Speaker, Panel on “Role of the Press in the Marketing of
Independent
Films,” Bermuda International Film
Festival, 2001
Moderator and host, Career Tribute to Norman Jewison, Lake Placid Film
Forum, N.Y., 2001
Moderator, Panel on “Novel to Screen,” with Russell Banks,
William
Kennedy, and Stephen Schiff, Lake Placid
Film Forum, N.Y., 2001
Moderator and lecturer, Evening on Mae West, Mercy College Treasure
Chest Film Festival, N.Y.C., 2001
Moderator and lecturer, “Robert Beavers Spotlight,” film
series in Toronto
International Film Festival,
Cinematheque Ontario/Art Gallery of
Ontario, 2000
Moderator and host, Career Tribute to Milos Forman, Lake Placid Film
Forum, N.Y., 2000
Moderator, Panel on “Acting and Independent Film,” with
Cliff Robertson
And Buck Henry, Lake Placid Film Forum,
N.Y., 2000
Moderator, Panel on “Short Films,” Lake Placid Film Forum,
N.Y., 2000
Host and Interviewer, Career Tribute to Richard Dreyfuss, World Film
Festival, Montreal, 1999
Speaker, Panel on The Wooster Group and Avant-Garde Video, New York
Video Festival, Lincoln Center, N.Y.C.,
1999
Introductory speaker, Evening with Johan van der Keuken, San Francisco
International Film Festival, California,
1999
Moderator, Panel on Film Criticism, with Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell,
and
Peter Rainer, Miami Film Festival,
Florida, 1999
Speaker, Panel on “Festivals for the Millennium,”
Avignon/New York Film
Festival, N.Y., 1999
Introductory speaker, Gregory Nava film screening, Official Selection,
World Film Festival, Montreal, 1998
Moderator and Interviewer, Afternoon with Stan Brakhage, Conversations
series, Telluride Film Festival,
Colorado, 1998
Moderator, Screenwriting Seminar, Mill Valley Film Festival,
California,
1998
Moderator, Micro Meeting on Independent Cinema, Toronto International
Film Festival, 1998
Lecture on Brecht and Film, American Theater Festival, Long Island
University, 1999
Speaker, Panel on Film Criticism, Huntington International Independent
Film Festival, Cinema Arts Center,
Huntington, N.Y., 1998
Speaker, Symposia on Film Criticism, International Cinema, etc., World
Film Festival, Montreal, 1993-94, 1996-97
Speaker, Panel on Film Criticism and Independence, Avignon/New York
Film Festival, French Institute/Alliance
Française, 1998
Speaker, Festival of Diamonds on Film, American Museum of Natural
History, 1997
Moderator, Micro Meeting on Film Criticism and the Motion-Picture
Industry, Toronto International Film
Festival, 1997
Speaker, Panel on Hollywood, Cleveland International Film Festival, 1997
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with Mike Leigh, Conversations
Series,
Telluride Film Festival, Colorado, 1996
Speaker, Seminar on Film Criticism, Philadelphia Film Festival, 1996
Speaker, Seminar on Film Criticism, Miami Film Festival, Florida, 1996
Speaker, Panel on Film Criticism, Mill Valley Film Festival, California,
1995
Speaker, Film Critics Panel, with Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell, et al,
Sarasota French Film Festival, Florida,
1995
Featured in Interviews and Articles (selected)
Interview/review, “The B List,” Kirkus Reviews:
Specials/Reference 4:11, 1
September 2008.
Full-length article/review, “Killer B’s: New Book
Celebrates The So-Called
Lower Rung of Auteurs,” Baltimore
City Paper, 29 October 2008.
Interviewed in Film Threat, July 2004.
Featured in Kevin Lewis, “James Ivory: Golden Rooms With
Views,” DGA
Magazine, January 2001.
Featured in CNN report on Key Cinema Club, Washington, D.C., 1994.
Full-length interview article, “The Movies – Sorting Things
Out,” Christian
Science Sentinel 95:35, 1993.
Additional activities (selected):
Presentations on current films, Talk Cinema
Lincoln Center, N.Y.C.; AFI Silver
Theatre and Cultural Center,
Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia;
Boston; Voorhees, N.J.; State
University of New York at
Purchase. 1994-2008
Moderator, Evenings with Garrison Keillor, Robert Altman, Richard
Linklater, Steve Buscemi, Wim
Wenders, Terry Zwigoff, Daniel
Clowes, Mary Harron, and Max
Minghella, Makor/Steinhardt Center of
the 92nd Street Y, New York,
2006.
Speaker, Panel on “Breaking the Rules,“ O.C. Tanner
Symposium, Manon
Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass
Performance Hall, Utah State
University, 2006.
Moderator, Panel on “The Best and Worst of 2005,”
Makor/Steinhardt
Center of the 92nd Street Y, New York,
2006.
Lecture on Beat Generation documentary, O.C. Tanner Symposium/Utah
Humanities Council, Merrill-Cazier
Library, Utah State University,
2006.
Lecture on “The New Thought,” Maryland Institute College of
Art,
Baltimore, 2006.
Speaker, Panel on “O’Neill on the Screen,” Sixth
Annual Eugene O’Neill
Celebration: O’Neill on Film,
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center,
Waterford, Conn., October 2005.
Inaugural presentation, “Critics Choice,” Avon Theater Film
Center,
Stamford, Conn., 2005
Presentation on John Boorman and political film, Feature Film Seminar
Series, The Town Hall, N.Y., 2005
Presentation on Shakespeare and Film, 92nd Street Y/Makor Center, N.Y.,
2005
Lecture on film criticism, Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore,
2005
Presentations on Contemporary Film, Baylor Communication in New York
Program, Baylor University, The
Lamb’s Theater, New York, 2005,
2004
Lecture on Thomas Szasz and Pharmocracy, Maryland Institute College of
Art, Baltimore, 2005
Moderator, evening with John Travolta, Screen Actors Guild, 2004
Lecture on Holocaust Film, Drew University, New Jersey, 2004
“Stanley Kubrick and Lolita,” in “Great Performances:
Movies Selected by
the New York Critics Circle,”
American Museum of the Moving Image,
N.Y., 2004
Moderator, discussion with Michel Gondry, Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker
Series, Roone Arledge Cinema, Columbia
University, 2004
Moderator, evening with Catalina Sandino Moreno and Maria Full of
Grace,
Screen Actors Guild, 2004
Presentation on sex, lies & videotape, in “Passion,
Pornography, and
Partners” program,
Makor/Steinhardt Center, 92nd Street Y, N.Y.C.,
2004
Presentation on French film, Key Sunday Cinema Club, Boston, 2004
Lecture, “The `New Thought’ and Its Legacy,” Maryland
Institute College
of Art, Baltimore, 2004
Presentation on J.M. Barrie and Finding Neverland, Great Neck Arts
Center,
N.Y., 2004
Speaker, Panel on Art: Transgression and Transformation, American
Theatre
Festival, Long Island University, 2004
Moderator, Panel on Capturing the Friedmans, with Andrew Jarecki and
Jesse Friedman, 92nd Street
Y--Makor/Steinhardt Center, N.Y.C., 2003
Presentation on Philip Roth and The Human Stain, Great Neck Arts
Center,
N.Y., 2003
“David Lynch and Eraserhead,” American Museum of the Moving
Image,
N.Y., 2003
Moderator, Evening with Thelma Schoonmaker, Carla Kuhn Memorial
Speaker Series, Columbia University, 2003
Moderator, Evening with Raoul Coutard, Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker
Series, Columbia University, 2003
Lecture on Polanski and Chinatown, Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, N.Y.
,
2003
Speaker, Workshop on Anthology Editing and Careers Outside the
Academy, Born to Be Bad 2: Trash Cinema
Conference and Film
Festival, University of California at
Berkeley, 2003
Lecture on Terry Gilliam and Lost in La Mancha, Cinema Arts Center,
Huntington, N.Y. 2003
Speaker, Panel on movies and books, Mary Baker Eddy Library for the
Betterment of Humanity, Boston, 2003
“Andy Warhol and Empire,” opening event of “New York,
New York:
Movies Selected by the New York Critics
Circle,” American Museum of
the Moving Image, N.Y., 2002
Moderator, Evening on Tod Browning and Freaks, Maryland Institute
College of Art, Baltimore, 2002
Moderator, evening with composer Carter Burwell, Carla Kuhn Memorial
Speaker Series, Columbia University, 2002
Presentation on Film Criticism, Hartley Wallach Living Learning Center,
Columbia University, N.Y., 2002
Moderator, Talk Cinema at Brooklyn Academy of Music, N.Y.C., 1999-
2001
Presentation on Iranian film, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,
Hartford, Conn., 2001
Moderator, Panel on City Hall, with Danny Aiello, Edward R. Pressman,
and Ken Lipper, BAMcinématek,
Brooklyn Academy of Music, N.Y.,
2001
Lecture on James Dean and Rebel Without a Cause, Sacred Heart
University, Fairfield, Conn., 2001
Moderator, “Director’s Take with James Ivory,”
Independent Feature
Project, Director’s Guild of
America Theater, N.Y., 2000
Speaker, panel on Law and Order in “Frederick Wiseman: American
Filmmaker” program, with Norman E.
Siegel et al, Lincoln Center, N.Y.,
2000
Speaker, panel on Hospital in “Frederick Wiseman: American
Filmmaker”
program, Lincoln Center, N.Y., 2000
Moderator and lecturer, Evening on Robert Duvall and The Apostle, in
symposium on Art & Soul: Religious
Faith and Literary Art, Baylor
University, Texas, 2000
“Peter Medak and Let Him Have It,” American Museum of the
Moving
Image, N.Y., 2000
“Tunisian Film and Silences of the Palace,” Guild Hall/John
Drew Theater,
East Hampton, N.Y., 2000
Moderator, Evening with filmmaker Alison Maclean, Columbia University
Graduate Film Carla Kuhn Memorial Guest
Speaker Series, 2000
Lecture on modernism and cinema, Mercy College, N.Y., 2000
Lecture/Discussion on Mike Hodges film, Shooting Gallery Film Club,
N.Y., 2000
Inaugural lecture, “The Bronx is Up and the Battery’s Down:
New York
City on Screen,” in Ciné
Salon series Lovers of Cinema: The Odyssey of
American Independent Film 1893-1941,
Howe Library, Hanover, N. H.,
1999
Presentation on early American cinema, Hood Museum of Art/Hopkins
Center, Dartmouth College, 1999
Lecture on Nouvelle Vague Cinema and Literary Paris in the Fifties; The
Mercantile Library, New York, 1999
Introductory speaker, Pedro Almodóvar film screening, Young
Friends of
Film, Lincoln Center, N.Y., 1999
Introductory speaker, evening with actress Anita Ekberg and film,
Beekman
Theater, N.Y., 1999
Moderator and host, Film screenings presented by Cinema Arts Group, New
Jersey, 1999-2000
Moderator, Program on music and film with composer John Barry, The
Screening Room, N.Y., 1999
Presentations on Iranian and Spanish films, Great Neck Center for the
Visual
& Performing Arts, N.Y., 1999
Speaker, Panel on journalism, Principia College, Illinois, 1999
Moderator, “Before Hollywood: The Debut of an Art and Industry in
New
York,” New-York Historical
Society, 1998
Introductory speaker, Olivier Assayas presentation in Zeitgeist Films
anniversary program, American Museum of
the Moving Image, 1998
Moderator, Evening with Maxican filmmaker Bigas Luna, Cinema Arts
Center, Huntington, N.Y., 1998
Lecture on current film, New York Film Buffs, French Institute/Alliance
Française, 1998
Commentaries on films and criticism, Filmmakers Symposium, Monmouth
University, N. J., 2004, 2002, 1998
Introductory talk, Merchant Ivory Productions retrospective, Paris
Theater,
N.Y., 1998
Lectures on narrative in film and business, Amos Tuck School of
Business,
Dartmouth College, 1997
Speaker, Panel on “Moments Out of Time,” with Andrew
Sarris, Molly
Haskell, James Toback, et al, Film
Comment/Film Society of Lincoln
Center, N.Y.C., 1997
Featured Speaker, Opening Gala, Great Neck Center for the Arts, N.Y.,
1997
Lecture on censorship with First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams,
National Board of Review, N.Y., 1997
Lecture on Gregory J. Markopoulos and Avant-Garde Cinema, Foundation
for Hellenic Culture, N.Y., 1997
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with filmmaker Bruce Beresford,
Independent Feature Project/Sundance
Channel, N.Y., 1997
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with filmmaker/actor Griffin Dunne,
Independent Feature Project/Sundance
Channel, N.Y., 1997
Speaker, Panel on John Cassavetes, with Peter Bogdanovich, Seymour
Cassell, et al, Miramax Films and Film
Comment, N. Y., 1997
Presentation on Film Criticism, Fridays @ 4 Lecture Series, New School
for Social Research, N.Y., 1997
Lecture on Criticism, American Museum of the Moving Image, N.Y., 1996
Moderator, Panel on Screenwriting, with writer Barbara Turner, Script
to
Screen Conference, Independent Feature
Project, N.Y.C., 1996
Speaker, Panel on Politics and Film, with Robert Scheer, John Fund, Ron
Silver, et al, Lincoln Center, N.Y.C.,
1996
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant,
Works in Process Series, Guggenheim
Foundation, 1995
Presentation on Satyajit Ray, Merchant/Ivory Productions, Lincoln Plaza
Cinema, N.Y. 1995
Presentations on classic films, Greenwich Classic Film Series, Conn.,
1992-
2000
Lecture on films by Chabrol and Hitchcock, The Brooklyn Museum, 1994
Speaker, Panel on Turkish Cinema, Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center,
N.Y., 1994
Presentations on current films, Westchester Cinema Club, 1990-2002
Guest speaker, Newspaper Workshop, C. W. Post Campus, Long Island
University, 1994
Lecture on Biennial film and video presentations, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, 1993
Lecture on Hitchcock films, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1993
Presentations on current films, Key Cinema Club, Washington, D.C., 1992-
94
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with James Ivory, Cooper Union Grand
Hall, New York, 1993
Presentations on recent films, Westport Film Society, Connecticut,
1993-94
Presentation on films by Robert Altman, Silvermine Artists Guild,
Stamford,
Connecticut, 1993
Speaker, Panel on moral values in cinema, with Richard Heffner et al,
American Jewish Committee et al, 1991
Speaker, New School University/New School for Social Research, seminar
on film journalism, 2005, 2004,
1998-2001, 1994, 1991, 1990.
Media Activities (selected):
Television Appearances:
Six Degrees of TV, tvtropolis, Canada, 2010
Connie Martinson Talks Books, PBS/L.A. CityView, 2008
The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001,
1998
At Large With Geraldo Rivera, Fox News Channel, 2005
Film Critic, MSNBC at the Movies, MSNBC-TV, 2005
Breakfast News, BBC, 2005
Countdown Coast to Coast, MSNBC, 2005
Talking Movies, BBC, 2005, 2000
Dayside MSNBC, 2004-2005
Charlie Rose, PBS, 2004
Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, 2003-2004
Newsnight with Aaron Brown, CNN, 2004
Scarborough Country, MSNBC, 2004
The Capital Report, CNBC, 2004
CNN Live Today, CNN, 2004
Headline News, CNN Headline News, 2004, 2002
Dayside, CNN, 2004
CNN International, CNN, 2004
BBC World, BBC, 2004, 2000
Live From CNN, CNN, 2004
Feature Story News, 2004
In the Money, CNN, 2004
News 24, BBC, 2004
CNN Sunday, CNN, 2003
MSNBC Morning, MSNBC, 2004
MSNBC Right Now, MSNBC, 2003-2004
Arthouse, 2004
Catherine Crier Live, Court TV, 2003, 2002
CNN Sunday Morning, CNN, 2003
MSNBC Live, MSNBC, 2003, 2001
Rogers Television, Toronto, 2003
The News with Brian Williams, MSNBC, 2002
The Point, CNN, 2002
Hollywood at Large, Court TV / NBC, 2002
Academy Awards Special, Fox News Channel, 2001
World Report, CNN International, 2001
Newsfront, MSNBC, 2001, 2000
24Frame News, The Sundance Channel, 2001
Celebrity Spotlight, Fox News Channel, 2001
Crier Today, Court TV, 2000-2001
NBC News with Mike Barnicle, MSNBC, 2001
Movie Talk, BBC, 2001
Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer, MSNBC, 2000
The Edge with Paula Zahn, Fox News Channel, 2000
Behind the Screen, AMC--American Movie Classics, 2000
Morning Line, MSNBC, 1997-2000
Fox News Live, Fox News Channel, 2000
Feedback, MSNBC, 2000
Morning Blend, MSNBC, 1997-2000
School's Out , MSG--Metro Learning, 1998-2000
Studio Y, MSG--Metro Channel, 2000
Breakfast News, BBC, 2000
Hannity & Colmes, Fox News Channel, 1999
The Crier Report, Fox News Channel, 1996-99
Today in America, MSNBC, 1998-99
Fox on Entertainment, Fox News Channel, 1996-99
News Chat, MSNBC, 1998-99
Fox News Now, Fox News Channel, 1999
Real Time, MSNBC, 1999
Canapé, CUNY-TV, 1999
Today in America Oscar Special, MSNBC, 1999
Clinton Scandal Special, Fox News Channel, 1998
Moneyline, CNN, 1998
Weekend in America, MSNBC, 1998
Cinema, PBS, 1997
Newsfront , MSNBC-TV, 1997
Arts & Humanities, MSG—Metro Learning, 1998
Fox on Entertainment Special , Fox News Channel, 1997
New York Calling, WBIS-TV, 1997
Telewizja Polska/Polish Public Television, 1997
Fox on Religion, Fox News Channel, 1996
America After Hours, CNBC-TV, 1996
Associated Press Television, 1995
Additional Media Activities
Film Critic, Monitor Radio, Public Radio International, 1985-1997
Film critic, World Monitor, The Discovery Channel, 1989
Film Critic, World Service, Monitor Radio, 1986-1990
Film critic, One Norway Street, The Monitor Channel/WWOR-TV, 1989-92
Film critic, Today's Monitor, The Monitor Channel/WWOR-TV, 1989-92
Radio Appearances
Film in Focus, RobinHoodRadio, WHDD, Connecticut, 2009, 2010
Gary O’Brien & Friends, WDWS, Illinois, 2009
The Louie Free Radio Show, WASN, Ohio, 2009, 2008
Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, 2008
The Bob Edwards Show, XM Satellite Radio/Sirius XMPR/Sirius Satellite
Radio, 2008
Inquiry, WICN/NPR, New England, 2008
The Jordan Rich Show, WBZ, Boston, 2008
Stone & Double T Show, WXRX, Illinois, 2008
The Frank DeCaro Show, Sirius OutQ, Sirius Satellite Radio, 2008
Talk@12, Iowa Public Radio, 2008
The Drive, WJBC, Illinois, 2008
The Sandbox, WFNX, Boston, 2008
Late Mornings, KVON, California, 2008
To the Best of Our Knowledge, Public Radio International/Wisconsin
Public
Radio, 2007
The Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly, 2007
RadioOpticon, www.robinhoodradio.com, 2006
The Ticket, BBC World Service, 2003-2005
American Voices with Senator Bill Bradley, Sirius Satellite Radio, 2005
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, Washington, D.C., 2005
Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005
The Dean Richards Show, WGN, Chicago, 2005
Film Focus, WKCR-FM, N.Y., 2005, 2002, 2001
CBS News, 2004
CFRB, Toronto, 2004
Morning Edition, National Public Radio, 2004, 2003, 2001
Radio Free Europe, 2003-2004
Europe Today, BBC World Service, 2004
Meridian Screen, BBC World Service, 2002-2003
Radio 5, BBC, 2004
Radio New Zealand, 2004
The Mark Steiner Show, WYPR, Baltimore, 2004
Drive Home with Preston Westmoreland, KTAR, Phoenix, 2004
The World, Public Radio International/BBC, 2000-2002
Daybreak, WEAA, Baltimore, 2003
Marketplace, Public Radio International, 1997-2001
On Screen, BBC World Service, 2001
New York and Company, WNYC-AM, N. Y., 2001, 1997, 1998, 1999
To the Point, Public Radio International, 2001
Talking History, Public Radio, 2001
All Things Considered—Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, 2000
The Connection, National Public Radio, 2000, 1998
Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, 1998
British Broadcasting Corporation—Scotland, 1998
The Ideas Network, Wisconsin Public Radio, 1994
Voice of America, 1993, 1991, 1989
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1991
WCCO-AM, Minneapolis, 1990
Additional Media Appearances:
Nightline with Ted Koppel, ABC-TV, 1988
CBS Morning News, CBS-TV, 1985-6
The Envelope Please…, Bravo, 1997-1998
Television Canal +, France, 2003
All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 1996
City Cinematheque, CUNY-TV, New York, 1999, 1996
North Carolina Public Radio/WCQS, 1990
Minnesota Public Radio, 1989
WNYC-FM, 1988
Cinema Then, Cinema Now, CUNY-TV, New York, 1992
WPIX-TV News, New York, 1990
Louis Lyons Show, WGBH-TV, Boston, 1970
Podcasts:
Tikkun – David Sterritt Phone Forum, 2009
http://www.tikkun.org/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=
2009041514492151
Films in Focus, 2009
Commentaries robinhoodradio.com
http://podcasts.am1020whdd.com/~am1020wh/index.php
Interview on Mr. Media Interviews with Bob Andelman, 2008
BlogTalkRadio
<http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mrmedia/2008/12/09/
David-Sterritt-THE-B-LIST-author-film-critic-Mr-Media-Interview>
Interview with Garrison Keillor and Robert Altman, 2006
92nd Street Y, New York
<http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/
robert_altman_podcast/>
Film/Video Appearances (selected):
“For the Love of Movies,” dir. Gerald Peary, 2008
“Erich von Stroheim: The Profligate Genius,” Young Indy
Documentaries:
Episode 22: The Hollywood Follies,
LucasFilm, 2007
The Critics: Stories from the Inside Pages, dir. Dwight
DeWerth-Pallmeyer,
Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
2006
Look Out, Haskell, It’s Real: The Making of Medium Cool, dir.
Paul Cronin,
U.K., 2002
The Envelope Please…, dir. Josh Friedman, Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, 1996
Additional Activities (selected):
Associate Editor, Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, 2002
Critic at Large, Film Scouts, America Online/Internet/World Wide Web,
1995-present
Nominator, MacArthur Fellows Program, The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, 1999
Advisory Board, The Fassbinder Foundation, 2000-present
Advisory Board, Religious Faith and Literary Art: Art & Soul
Conference,
Baylor University, Waco, Texas,
2001-present
Member, Board of Directors, International Film Circuit, New York, 1989-
present
Biographies (selected):
Who’s Who in America
Contemporary Authors
Miscellaneous Activities (selected):
In-House Critic, Dartmouth College, Dept. of Drama and Film Studies,
1990, 1987
Speaker, Panel on Cinema, with Bob Mondello and Linda Benn, University
of North Carolina (Asheville), 1990
Film lecture, Principia College, Illinois, 1976
Host and Interviewer, “Dialogues With Directors,” with
James Ivory,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1990
Host and Interviewer, “Dialogues With Directors,” with
Franklin J.
Schaffner, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, 1988
Lectures, Newark Public Library, Newark, N.J., 1986-90
Speaker, Fordham University, Seminar on Arts Journalism, 1989
Lecture on Academy Awards, Motion Picture Bookers Club, 1988
Article on new music, commissioned by Neue Zeitschrift für Muzik,
Germany, 1985.
Speaker, Symposium on minimalism, Virginia Commonwealth University
Speaker, Panel on experimental theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Guest host, New, Old, and Unexpected Music, WNYC-FM, New York
Speaker, Seminar on current cinema, Touro College, New York
Speaker, Panel on film, art, and music, Greenwich Public Library, Conn.
Speaker, Conference on University Theater, Yale University
Speaker, Conference on Careers and the Arts, Des Moines, Iowa
Guest host, Flick-out, WGBH-TV, Boston
Invited participant in critics polls-- The American Film Institute,
Village
Voice, Los Angeles Times, Premiere, New
York Post, Film Comment,
Senses of Cinema, Cinema Scope,
indieWire, PopMatters, Beyond the
Canon, Movie City News, Newport
International Film Festival,
Moviecrazed.com, The Cinematheque.com,
CriticWire, Museum of the
Moving Image, et cetera
Engagements as professional organist/pianist, various years and
locations
Additional Miscellaneous Activities (selected):
Project consultations/manuscript referee, PMLA; W. W. Norton &
Company; Cambridge University Press;
University of California Press;
Cinema Journal; Palgrave Macmillan;
Polity Press, Pearson Longman;
Rowman & Littlefield; Indiana
University Press; Historical Methods;
State University of New York Press;
Screening the Past; Wayne State
University Press; University Press of
Kentucky; Southern Illinois
University Press; Framework: The Journal
of Cinema and Media, etc.
(various years through present).
Consultations on tenure, promotion, academic awards: Hunter
College/City
University of New York, 1998; Oklahoma
State University, 2000;
University of Nebraska, 2005; Clemson
University, 2005; University of
Hartford, 2006; Baylor University, 2006;
University of New Hampshire,
2008.
Consultant, Hitchcock documentary film project, Baylor University, 1998-
99.
Advisory Committee Member, Conference on China at Home and Abroad,
Third World Television Exchange, 1997.
Nominator, MacArthur Foundation, 2000.
Nominee consultations, MacArthur Foundation, various years, 1994-2003.
Nominee consultations, Guggenheim Foundation, various years.
Nominee consultation, Mellon Distinguished Achievement Awards, 2008.
Recipient of Major Grants, C.W. Post Research Committee, Long Island
University, 1993-94, 1995-97, 1997-98.
Contributing Editor, The Thousand Eyes Magazine, New York City, 1980.
Professional organizations:
National Society of Film Critics
(Chair, 2005 - present; Vice-Chair, 2004)
American Society for Aesthetics
Modern Language Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
FIPRESCI: Film Critics International Federation
Online Film Critics Society
(through 2005; Special Honorary Member,
2005 - present)
Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary
Interpretation
(Co-Chair, 1999-2005; founding member of
Advisory Committee, 1998-
99)
New York Film Critics Circle
(through 2005; Chair 2000, 1987;
Vice-Chair 1999, 1986)
New York Film Critics Online
(through 2005)
Additional Teaching:
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1993)
City University of New York, College of Staten Island (1992)
Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus (1985-89)
Columbia University: Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, various
years
Education:
B.A., English Language and Literature, Boston University, College of
Liberal Arts, May 1967
M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and
Science, February 1992
Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and
Science, December 1993