Cinema & Comparative Literature
Paula Amad |
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| Associate Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature | ||
| Ph.D. Chicago | ||
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| Background: | ||
| Paula teaches and researches at the intersection of film history, film theory, and literary studies (with particular interest in the cultural context of early non-fiction film and the first French avant-gardes), in addition to postcolonial theory in the visual and literary fields; comparative theories of modernity, postmodernity, and consumer culture; and the relationship between photography and film. Recent graduate courses include: The Archival Turn, Cinema and the Everyday, Colonial/Postcolonial Theory & French Cinema; and undergraduate courses on Photography and Film, European Silent Cinema, and History of Documentary. She has published articles in Camera Obscura, Framework, Film History, and Cahiers de la Cinémathèque, some of which have been translated into German and Italian. Her current research projects include gender and early cinephilia of the 1920s, the intersections between aerial cinematography and early French film theory, and the cinematic haunting of the site of Les Halles. She is completing a book titled Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and French Modernity 1895-1930 (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Paula has taught at Melbourne University (Australia) and Indiana University and she recently conducted a graduate seminar at University of Paris III. She is a recipient of the Getty Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-7) and is on the editorial board of the Australian journal Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. Recent publications: ““Between the ‘familiar text’ and the ‘book of the world’: Touring The Ambivalent Contexts of Travel Films,” in Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel, ed. Jeffrey Ruoff (Duke University Press, 2006) 99-116. “ ‘These spectacles are never forgotten’: Memory and Reception in Colette’s film criticism.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies 59 (2005): 119-164. “ “Objects became witnesses”: Ève Francis as witness to the emergence of French cinephilia and film criticism.” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 46.1 (Spring 2005): 56-73. “Cinema’s ‘sanctuary’: From pre-documentary to documentary film in Albert Kahn’s Archives de la Planète (1908-1931).” Film History 13.2 (2001): 138-159. |
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