(M.F.A., Columbia University; Ph.D. Cornell University), Professor, rostered in English, teaches classes in film history, creative writing, and modern British and American literature. He is extremely prolific having written three books of narrative theory (Telling It Again and Again: Repetition in Literature and Film; Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film; and The Mind of the Novel: Reflexive Fiction and the Ineffable), three books on Faulkner (Faulkner and Film, To Have and Have Not [ed.], and Faulkner's MGM Screenplays), and How Movies Work. An introductory "film appreciation" textbook, How Movies Work is a technically comprehensive, excellent one-volume introduction to film aesthetics as well as film production. Finally, beginning with the fifth edition, he has been co-author of the late Gerald Mast's A Short History of the Movies. In addition, he has been on the Executive Committee of the Society for Cinema Studies and the editorial boards of Genders, Post Script, and Cinema Journal. His talents extend to poetry and screenwriting. His professional screenwriting includes unsold treatments for The Godfather Part III and Part IV, the treatment and first scripts for The Grifters, a basketball script co-written by Howie Movshovitz (The Starters), and a new script, based on the works of Arthur Machen (The Gold Tiberius). Special scholarly interests include William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Jim Thompson, film history, narrative theory, and the horror film.
FILM 4004: Topics in Film Theory, and other courses related to his scholarly interests in film.
Film Studies Program, ATLAS room 329, Film Studies, , Campus Box 316, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0316. ph 303.492.7574 fx 303.492.1362
(M.F.A., Columbia University; Ph.D. Cornell University), Professor, rostered in English, teaches classes in film history, creative writing, and modern British and American literature. He is extremely prolific having written three books of narrative theory (Telling It Again and Again: Repetition in Literature and Film; Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film; and The Mind of the Novel: Reflexive Fiction and the Ineffable), three books on Faulkner (Faulkner and Film, To Have and Have Not [ed.], and Faulkner's MGM Screenplays), and How Movies Work. An introductory "film appreciation" textbook, How Movies Work is a technically comprehensive, excellent one-volume introduction to film aesthetics as well as film production. Finally, beginning with the fifth edition, he has been co-author of the late Gerald Mast's A Short History of the Movies. In addition, he has been on the Executive Committee of the Society for Cinema Studies and the editorial boards of Genders, Post Script, and Cinema Journal. His talents extend to poetry and screenwriting. His professional screenwriting includes unsold treatments for The Godfather Part III and Part IV, the treatment and first scripts for The Grifters, a basketball script co-written by Howie Movshovitz (The Starters), and a new script, based on the works of Arthur Machen (The Gold Tiberius). Special scholarly interests include William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Jim Thompson, film history, narrative theory, and the horror film.