Cinema & Comparative Literature
Steven Ungar |
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| Professor of French and Comparative Literature | ||
| Ph.D. Cornell | ||
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| Statement: | ||
| Steven Ungar has taught French literature, thought, and film at The University of Iowa since 1976. His book-length publications include Roland Barthes: The Professor of Desire (1983), Scandal and Aftereffect: Blanchot and France Since 1930 (1995), Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture (2005, with Dudley Andrew), and Cléo de 5 à 7 (2008). Ungar’s current research project, Making Waves, is a study of postwar French documentaries and the model of social cinema. Shorter projects in progress include an article on portraits of collaborators, Fascists, and Nazis in the writings of Jonathan Littell, Didier Daeninckx, and Klaus Theweleit. |
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20th-21st century French fiction, poetry, & thought; first-person narration; everyday life in word & image; North African writing & film; French film of the 1930s; Left-Bank cinema (Resnais, Marker, Varda, & Rouch) |
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Recent Publications: |
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“Kundera’s Variations: Passing Thoughts on Novel and Nation,” South Central Review, 25, no. 2 (summer 2008), 57-67. “Jean Vigo, L’Atalante, and the Promise of Social Cinema,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 35, no. 2 (2009), 63-83. “War on Film in the Public Sphere.” In Patricia Lorcin & Daniel Brewer, eds., Spaces of War in France and the Francophone Worlds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 277-287. |
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