Faculty

Paul Gordon

Paul Gordon, Professor, Comparative Literature and Humanities (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale).

• Interests in film include: film theory, feminist film theory, psychoanalytic film theory, Hitchcock, Herzog, Tarantino, Scorsese et al. 
• Publications on film include Dial ‘M’ for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock (Farleigh Dickinson Press, 2007), “Sometime a Cigar is NOT just a Cigar: Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt,”  “The Un-usual Suspects,”and a recent essay on “Oedipal Echo-Effects in Kill Bill.” 
• Other publications: The Critical Double: Figurative Meaning in Aesthetic Discourse, Introduction: J. Hillis Miller (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995) and Rapturous Superabundance: Tragedy after Nietzsche (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001), and numerous essays.
• Courses taught: Art and Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Art and the Sublime, Tragedy, The Criminal as Hero, The Arts of Interpretation, Hitchcock/Freud

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