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Cinema Studies Faculty
David M. Desser
Titles
Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
Professor Emeritus of Criticism & Interpretive Theory
Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Address
email: desser@illinois.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Southern California 1981
Major research interests and activities
Asian Cinema
American Cinema
Race and Ethnicity in Cinema
Editor, National Film Traditions Series, Cambridge University Press.
Past Editor, Cinema Journal
Courses taught
History of World Cinema;
Japanese Cinema;
Chinese Cinema;
The Jewish Experience in Cinema;
Film genres (including Western, War, Melodrama, Science Fiction, Horror).
Selected publications
- The Cinema of Hong Kong : History, Arts, Identity. (Editor, with Poshek Fu, and contributor) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Hollywood Goes Shopping. (Editor, with Garth S. Jowett, and contributor) University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
- Ozu's TOKYO STORY. (Editor and contributor) Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan. (Co-editor, with Linda C. Ehrlich, and contributor) University of Texas Press, 1994.
- Reflections in a Male Eye: John Huston and the American Experience. (Editor, with Gaylyn Studlar, and contributor) Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
- American-Jewish Filmmakers: Traditions and Trends. (With Lester D. Friedman) University of Illinois Press, 1993.
- Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History (Editor, with Arthur Noletti, Jr., and contributor) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
- Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema. Indiana University Press, 1988.
- The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa (Studies in Cinema, No. 23). Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Unit for Cinema Studies
rleskosk@illinois.edu
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