Richard Koszarski
Associate Professor Tel: 732-932-7564 Department of English Email Address: [email protected] School of Arts and Sciences - Homepage Address: English http://english.rutgers.edu/faculty/profiles/koszarski.html 510 George Street New Brunswick , NJ 08901
Education
Highest Earned Degree:
Ph.D., New York University, Cinema Studies, 1977.
Dissertation:
"The Unknown Cinema of Erich von Stroheim: Reconstruction and Analysis of The Devil's Pass Key, Queen Kelly and Walking Down Broadway" (1977). William K. Everson.
Other Earned Degrees, Graduate and Undergraduate:
M.A., New York University, Cinema Studies, 1974.
B.A., Hofstra University, English, 1969.
Honors and Awards
Fellowships:
National Endowment for the Humanities "Research Fellowship" (2003), Release time.
American Council of Learned Societies "Grant in Aid" (1978), $1000.
American Film Institute "Research Associateship" (1972-73), $9000.
American Film Institute "Research Associateship" (1971-72), $4500.
Professional Awards and Honors:
2005: Historic Preservation Award, State of New Jersey, for "Fort Lee, The Film Town," May 5, 2005.
2003: "Film Heritage Award," National Society of Film Critics, presented to KINO Video DVD release of Erich von Stroheim's films, for which I was historical consultant and provided full audio commentary tracks.
1991: Prix Jean Mitry, Giornate del Cinema Muto [for lifetime contribution to silent film scholarship]
1991: Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Society for Cinema Studies [for An Evening's Entertainment]
1984: National Film Book Award, National Film Society [for The Man You Loved to Hate]
1984: Theatre Library Association [for The Man You Loved to Hate]
1991: Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Society for Cinema Studies [for An Evening's Entertainment]
1984: National Film Book Award, National Film Society [for The Man You Loved to Hate]
1984: Theatre Library Association [for The Man You Loved to Hate]
Industry Relevance
Commercial or Industrial Relevance:
Expert legal representation involving the marketing of pre-existing film or television material on home video formats:
Prima v. Walt Disney Co. (2000) Williams v. Walt Disney Co. (1998) Boosey & Hawkes v. Walt Disney Co. (1995) Philadelphia Orchestra v. Walt Disney Co. (1994) Bourne Music Co. v. Walt Disney Co. (1992)
Employment History
Positions Held:
2003-ongoing: Rutgers University, Associate Professor
1998-2003: Rutgers University, Assistant Professor
1997-1997: New York University, Visiting Lecturer
1977-1997: American Museum of the Moving Image, NY. Positions included Curator of Film, Chief Curator, and Head of Collections and Exhibitions
1980-1986: Columbia University, Adjunct Assistant Professor
1971-1985: School of Visual Arts, Instructor in film history
1976-1976: New York University, Visiting Lecturer
1972-1972: Hofstra University, Visiting Lecturer
1980-ongoing: Since 1980 I have served as consultant, for various projects, to the AFI/NEA Film Preservation Advisory Panel; American Federation of the Arts; Chicago Historical Society; City Entertainment Corporation; George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography; Kino Film and Video; Museum of Modern Art (NY); Museum of the Moving Image (NY); Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (Australia); Turner Entertainment Corporation; United States Information Agency; Walt Disney Corp.
Publications
Books, Other than Textbooks, Including Scholarly Monographs: 2008: "Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff" (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
2004: "Fort Lee, The Film Town" (John Libbey/Indiana University Press, 2004).
2001: "Von: The Life and Films of Erich von Stroheim" (Limelight, 2001).
1990: "An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture" (Scribner's, 1990). Paperbound edition published by University of California Press (1994). Translated excerpt in Orio Clderon (ed.), "Cineamerica 1919-1929. Alle Fonti del Mito" (Rome: La Meridiana Editori, 1991), 75- 85..
1989: "Masterpieces of Moving Image Technology" (Exhibition Catalog, American Museum of the Moving Image, 1989).
1984: "Great American Film Directors in Photographs" (New York: Dover, 1984).
1984: "The Man You Loved to Hate: Erich von Stroheim and Hollywood (Oxford University Press, 1984). Spanish translation published by Verdoux (Madrid, 1993).
1983: "The Astoria Studio and Its Fabulous Films" (New York: Dover, 1983).
1977: "Universal Pictures: 65 Years" (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977).
Edited Books, Anthologies, Collections, Bibliographies:
1979: "Mystery of the Wax Museum: A Screenplay" (University of Wisconsin Press, 1979).
1977: "Hollywood Directors, 1941-1976" (Oxford University Press, 1977).
1976: "The Rivals of D.W. Griffith" (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1976).
1976: "Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940" (Oxford University Press, 1976).
Chapters in Books or Monographs:
2009: "Nancy Naumburg" in The Women Film Pioneers Project edited by Jane Gaines (U. of Illinois Press)
2008: "Out on Location: DW Griffith and Fort Lee" in The Griffith Project, Volume XII, edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 48-68.
2005: "Carl Laemmle" in The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema edited by Richard Abel (Routledge, 2005)
2005: "Erich von Stroheim" in Dizionario dei Registi, edited by Gian Piero Brunetta (Torino: Einaudi, 2005).
2004: "Dollars und Hausverstand" in Paul Fejos: die Welt macht Film, edited by Elisabeth Buttner (Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, 2004), 36-47.
2001: "The Motion Picture Industry," in The Encyclopedia of New Jersey, edited by Maxine Lurie and Marc Mappen (Rutgers University Press, 2001), 544-545.
2000: "New York, New York: Il Centro Di Produzione Della Costa Orientale," in Storia Del Cinema Mondiale, Tomo Secondo, edited by Gian-Piero Brunetta (Torino: Einaudi, 2000), 1377-1396.
2000: "Il Cinema Degli Anni Venti," in Storia Del Cinema Mondiale, Tomo Primo, edited by Gian-Piero Brunetta (Torino: Einaudi, 2000), 393-430.
1999: "The Griffith Project Volume II: Films Produced in January-June 1909" (London: British Film Institute, 1999). Three entries. Pp. 9-10, 13-14, 43-44.
1999: "The Griffith Project, Volume I: Films Produced in 1907-1908" (London: British Film Institute, 1999). Seven entries. Pp. 152-53, 183-84, 190, 195-204.
1995: "Karl Struss: The Cinematographer" in Karl Struss: New York to Hollywood (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1995), 167-205.
1994: "Nachrichten aus einer bosen Zeit" in Erich von Stroheim (Berlin: Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, 1994), 201-219. Institute, 1999). Three entries. Pp. 9-10, 13-14, 43-44.
1999: "The Griffith Project, Volume I: Films Produced in 1907-1908" (London: British Film Institute, 1999). Seven entries. Pp. 152-53, 183-84, 190, 195-204.
1995: "Karl Struss: The Cinematographer" in Karl Struss: New York to Hollywood (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1995), 167-205.
1994: "Nachrichten aus einer bosen Zeit" in Erich von Stroheim (Berlin: Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, 1994), 201-219.
1989: "On the Record: Seeing and Hearing the Vitaphone" in The Dawn of Sound (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989), 15-21. Reprinted as "Voir et entendre le Vitaphone," in Revue de la Cinematheque #12 (Aug-Sept 1991): 7-9.
1987: "Erich von Stroheim" in World Film Directors (New York: H.W. Wilson, 1987), 1069-1079.
1986: "Off-Screen Spaces: Images of Early Cinema Exhibition and Production" in Before Hollywood (New York: American Federation of the Arts, 1986), 13-37.
1980: "A Critical Dictionary of the Cinema" edited by Richard Roud (New York: Viking, 1980). Five entries. Pp. 155-156, 310-311, 609-610, 1009.
1978: "Harold Lloyd: High Flying Genius" in Close-Ups (New York: Workman, 1978), 11-14.
Articles in Non-refereed or General Journals:
2008: "'The Girl and Her Trust': Film to Fiction," Film History 20, 2 (2008): 198-201.
2006: "Nancy Naumburg, Vassar Revolutionary," Film History 18, 4 (2006): 374-375.
2005: "'It's No Use Having an Unhappy Man': Paul Fejos at Universal," Film History 17, 2/3 (2005): 234-240.
2005: "Flu Season: Moving Picture World reports on Pandemic Influenza," Film History 17, 4 (2005): 466-468.
2003: "'The Greatest Film Paramount Ever Made'," Film History 15, 4 (2003): 436-443.
2003: "William K. Everson and British Cinema," Film History 15, 3 (2003): 273-278. Introduction to special journal issue.
2002: "Subway Commandos: Hollywood Filmmakers at the Signal Corps Photographic Center," Film History 14, 2/3 (2002): 296-315.
2002: "Laughter, Music and Tragedy at the New York Pathe Studio," Film History 14, 1 (2002): 32-39.
2001: "'So Long, Master....' Stroheim, Griffith, and the Griffith Studio," Griffithiana 71 (2001): 45-81.
2000: "'Foolish Wives': The Color Restoration That Never Happened," Film History 12, 4 (2000): 345- 350.
2000: "Oral History," Film History 12, 1 (2000): 3-4. Introduction to special journal issue.
2000: "'A Lion in Your Lap, a Lover in Your Arms': Arch Oboler and Bwana Devil," Film History 12, 1 (2000): 17-28.
1999: "Reconstructing 'Greed': How Long and What Color," Griffithiana 65 (1999): 4-27. Shorter version published in Film Comment, Nov-Dec 1999: 10-15.
1998: "Pordenone Silent Film Festival," Film Comment, Jan-Feb 1998: 40-43.
1998: "Nueva York, Nueva York: Centro de produccion de la costa este americana," Archivos de la Filmoteca: Revista de Estudios Historios Sobre le Imagen (February 1998) 28: 409-55, 142-149.
1998: "Film Literature/Literature and Film," Film History, 10, 4 (1998): 427-428. Introduction to special issue.
1998: "Coming Next Week: Images of Television in Pre-War Motion Pictures," Film History 10, 2 (1998): 128-140. 1998: "Nueva York, Nueva York: Centro de produccion de la costa este americana," Archivos de la Filmoteca: Revista de Estudios Historios Sobre le Imagen (February 1998) 28: 409-55, 142-149.
1998: "Film Literature/Literature and Film," Film History, 10, 4 (1998): 427-428. Introduction to special issue.
1998: "Coming Next Week: Images of Television in Pre-War Motion Pictures," Film History 10, 2 (1998): 128-140.
1998: "Film, Photography, and Television," Film History 10, 2 (1998): 115-117. Introduction to special journal issue.
1996: "William K. Everson" (obituary), Film History 8, 2 (1996): 249.
1995: "Joseph Lerner and the Post-War New York Film Renaissance," Film History 7, 4 (1995): 456- 476.
1995: "The Movies Come Home," Film Comment, March-April 1995: 10-16.
1992: "Ernest Palmer--The Films with Murnau and Borzage," Griffithiana 46 (October 1992): 115-120.
1992: "Politics and the Movies," Culturefront (New York Council for the Humanties), September 1992: no page numbers.
1991: "Truth or Reality? A Few Thoughts on Mary MacLaren's 'Shoes'," Griffithiana 40/42 (October 1991): 78-82.
1990: "The William Desmond Taylor Mystery," Griffithiana 38/39 (October 1990): 253-256.
1989: "Career in Shadows: An Interview with Charles Van Enger," Film History 3, 3 (1989): 275-290.
1989: "Vitaphone's First Night," Museum of Modern Art Member's Quarterly, Fall 1989: 16-17.
1989: "J.H. Collins: Un Cineasta 'Emergente' Degli Anni Dieci," Segno Cinema, March 1989: 66-67.
1987: "'No Problems. They Liked What They Saw on Screen.' An Interview with Joseph Ruttenberg," Film History 1, 1 (1987): 65-95.
1985: "A Film That Almost Got Away," American Film, March 1985: 15-18.
1983: "A Legend in Its Own Time," American Film, May 1983: 56-62.
1982: "Report from Gdansk," American Film, Jan-Feb 1982: 62-64.
1977: "The Disco Hustle," Film Comment, Jan-Feb 1977: 38-39.
1975: "The Years Have Not Been Kind to Lois Weber," The Village Voice, November 10, 1975: 140- 141. Reprinted in Women and the Cinema (New York: Dutton, 1977): 146-52. Reprinted in Louise Heck-Rabi (ed.) Women Filmmakers: A Critical Reception (1984).
1975: "The Making and Unmaking of 'Walking Down Broadway'," (with William K. Everson), Film Comment, May-June 1975: 64-65 (50%).
1974: "The New York Film Festival," Film Comment, Nov-Dec 1974: 36.
1974: "Moving Pictures: An Interview with Hal Mohr," Film Comment, Sept-Oct 1974: 48-53. Reprinted in Elisabeth Buttner (ed.) "Paul Fejos: Die Welt macht Film" (Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, 2004), 83-96.
1973: "Maurice Tourneur, First of the Visual Stylists," Film Comment, March 1973: 24-31. Reprinted in Il Cinema Muto Americano e la critica moderna (Venice: Biennale, 1975): 99-109. Reprinted in Sulla Via Di Hollywood (Pordenone: Biblioteca dell'Immagine, 1988), 296-317. 1972: "The Men with the Movie Cameras," Film Comment, Summer 1972: 27-57. Reprinted in Film Theory and Criticism, ed. Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974), 560-66.
1971: "The Films of Roger Corman," Film Comment, Fall 1971: 42-48.
1971: "Murnau's 'City Girl'," Film Comment, Summer 1971: 20-22.
1971: "Lost and Found," Film Comment, Spring 1971: 70-74.
1970: "Jules Furthman," Film Comment, Winter 1970-71: 26-31. Reprinted in The Hollywood Screenwriters, ed. Richard Corliss (New York: Avon, 1972), 51-63.
1970: "'Trouble in Paradise'," Film Comment, Fall 1970: 47-48.
1970: "'Hello, Sister!,'" Sight and Sound, Fall 1970: 208-210.
1969: "Karl Freund's 'Mad Love'." Film Heritage, Winter 1969-70: 24-29.
1969: "Lost Films from the National Film Collection," Film Quarterly, Winter 1969-70: 31-37.
1969: "Maverick Moviemaker Speaks Out," America Illustrated (USIA, Russian and Polish editions), July 1969: 17-19.
1968: "The Youth of Francis Ford Coppola," Films in Review, November 1968: 529-536.
Electronic Publications, Not Refereed:
2008: "Eastern Promises: Paul Robeson Goes to New York for the Path-Breaking 'Emperor Jones'." Moving Image Source, posted September 18, 2009. http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/eastern-promises-20080918#
Published Conference Proceedings:
1994: "La Produzione Paramount a New York" in Studi Americani: Modi di produzione a Hollywood dalle origini all'era televisa (Venice: Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, 1994), 27-33.
Reviews:
2008: "Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film," Film History 20, 1 (2008): 115-117.
2006: "Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema," Film History 18, 3 (2006): 350-351.
2000: "Western Amerykanski: Polish Poster Art and the Western" and "The Silent Screen: German Film Posters from the Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection," Film History 12, 2 (2000): 226-227.
1999: "Filmmakers in 'The Moving Picture World'" and "American Film Personnel and Company Credits, 1908-1920," Film History, 11, 3 (1999): 387-391.
1998: "Painting in the Cinema: Painted Giant Cinema Posters Made by Greek Artists in the Years 1950-1975," "Polish Film Poster. 100th Anniversary of the Cinema in Poland" and "Poster Art from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema," Film History 10, 2 (1998): 241-244.
1998: "King of the Movies: Film Pioneer Siegmund Lubin," "James Williamson: Studies and Documents of a Pioneer of Film Narrative" and "Hollywood, Colorado. The Selig Polyscope Company and the Colorado Motion Picture Company," Film History 10, 4 (1998): 522-524.
1994: "The American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films 1931-1940," Film History, 6, 2 (1994): 278- 280.
1991: "The Unsheiking of Rudolph Valentino," New York Times Book Review (October 27, 1991): 13- 14.
1990: "Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative," "Before Caligari: German Cinema 1895-1920," "Emile Cohl, Caricature and Film," "Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of 'Dracula' from Stage to Screen," "Behind the Mask of Innocence," "Picture Personalities," "Karloff and Lugosi: The Story of a Haunting Collaboration," "American Film Music. Major Composers, Techniques, Trends, 1915-1989," "The 1994: "The American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films 1931-1940," Film History, 6, 2 (1994): 278- 280.
1991: "The Unsheiking of Rudolph Valentino," New York Times Book Review (October 27, 1991): 13- 14.
1990: "Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative," "Before Caligari: German Cinema 1895-1920," "Emile Cohl, Caricature and Film," "Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of 'Dracula' from Stage to Screen," "Behind the Mask of Innocence," "Picture Personalities," "Karloff and Lugosi: The Story of a Haunting Collaboration," "American Film Music. Major Composers, Techniques, Trends, 1915-1989," "The White Brorthers: Jack, Jules and Sam White" and "Points of Resistance: Women, Power and Poltics in the New York Avant Garde Cinema, 1943-1971," Film History 4, 4 (1990): 377-383.
1989: "The American Film Institute Catalog, Feature Films 1911-1920," "Music for Silent Films, 1894- 1929," "Hollywood and the Box Office," "Treasures from the Film Archives" and "A Star Is Born," Film History 3, 2 (1989): 163-166.
1989: "Silent Witnesses: Russian Films, 1909-1919," "The BFI Companion to the Western," "World Film Directors," "3-D Movies: A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema" and "Louise Brooks," Film History 3, 4 (1989): 369-372.
1988: "The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company," "Vitagraph Co. of America: Il Cinema Prima di Hollywood," "Lights, Camera, Florida! Ninety Years of Moviemaking in the Sunshine State," "Screenwriter: Words Become Pictures," "Prehistoire du Cinema en Afrique, 1897-1918," "Sir Hubert von Herkomer and His Film-Making in Bushey, 1912-1914," "Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Cartoons" and "Muriel Ostriche, Princess of the Silent Films," Film History 2, 3 (1988): 297- 300.
1978: "The Big 'U'" and "Universal Pictures," Film Comment (March-April 1978): 69-70.
1977: "Caligari's Cabinet and Other Grand Illusions," Film Library Quarterly 9, 4 (1977): 59.
1975: "The Complete 'Wedding March' of Erich von Stroheim," Film Library Quarterly 8, 2 (1975): 27, 40.
1975: "Film Bibliographies," Film Comment, Sept-Oct 1975: 64-65.
Scholarship Other:
2009: "The Eclair Bulletin." Team leader for digitization of 1912-1914 silent film industry periodical. In process.
2009: "A Companion to Early Cinema" (GRAFICS/Blackwell, forthcoming). Editorial Board member.
2009: Curator of Film Retrospective, "Hollywood on the Hudson," UCLA Film Archives/Armand Hammer Museum (CA), January16--February 7, 2009.
2008: Curator of Film Retrospective, "Hollywood on the Hudson," Museum of Modern Art (NY), September 17-October 19, 2008.
2008: Curator of Film Retrospective, "Hollywood on the Hudson," Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy, October 5-11, 2008.
2006: "Robin Hood." Team leader for restoration of 1912 Eclair-America silent film.
2003: Curator of Film Retrospective, "Silent Versions of Early Talkies," Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Spring 2003.
2002: Curator of Film Retrospective, "W.C. Fields," Museum of the Moving Image (NY), January 2002.
2002: Curator of Film Retrospective, "Rudolph Valentino," Museum of the Moving Image (NY), June 2002.
2002: Curator of Film Retrospective, "The Barrymore Family," Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Winter 2002.
2001: Curator of Film Retrospective, "William Randolph Hearst,' Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Spring 2001.
2000: Curator of Film Retrospective, "Lon Chaney," Museum of the Moving Image (NY), October 2000. 2002: Curator of Film Retrospective, "Rudolph Valentino," Museum of the Moving Image (NY), June 2002.
2002: Curator of Film Retrospective, "The Barrymore Family," Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Winter 2002.
2001: Curator of Film Retrospective, "William Randolph Hearst,' Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Spring 2001.
2000: Curator of Film Retrospective, "Lon Chaney," Museum of the Moving Image (NY), October 2000.
1999: "Greed." Historical consultant to reconstruction of silent film (Turner Classic Movies).
1995: "The Universal Story." Historical consultant for documentary film (Top Hat Productions/MCA).
1995: "Re-Examining the Silent Film: Interview with Historians Charles Musser, Eileen Bowser and Richard Koszarski," Literature/FilmQuarterly 23, 2 (April 1995): 88-90.
1982: "Renaissance du Studio Astoria: Entretien avec Richard Koszarski," in "Cahiers du Cinema" April 1982: ii, iv.
1979: "The Man You Loved to Hate." Screenplay, research and co-direction of documentary film (Film Profiles/BBC/NDR Hamburg).
1978: "Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel." Writer and historical consultant for documentary film (Blackwood Productions).
1976: Curator of Film Retrospective, "The Rivals of D.W. Griffith," Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis) November-December 1976.
Conference Presentations, Lectures, Demonstrations
Keynote or Plenary Addresses:
2008: James Card Memorial Lecture, "Filmmaking in New York." George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY, September 13, 2008.
1989: Keynote Address, "Fifty Years of Television." Antique Wireless Association, Canandaigua, New York, October 7, 1989.
Other Invited Addresses:
2009: "Alice Guy Blache in America." Whitney Museum/New York University, November 7, 2009.
2009: "The 1912 Eclair 'Robin Hood'." International Association of Robin Hood Studies, University of Rochester, October 23, 2009.
2009: "Alice in Wonderland at Fort Lee." Lewis Carroll Society of North America (Fort Lee, NJ), October 17, 2009.
2009: Graduate Seminar on New York Film History. UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, January 15, 2009.
2008: "Film History and Film Restoration." Selznick School of Film Preservation, Rochester, New York, September 12, 2008
2002: "Ulmer in New Jersey," International Edgar G. Ulmer Symposium, New School University (NY), November 1, 2002.
1996: "New York, New York: America's East Coast Production Center." Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, Valencia, Spain, July 4, 1996.
1993: "Austrian Film Emigration." Viennale '93, Vienna, Austria, October 9, 1993.
1989: "De Mille, Paramount, and Astoria." Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Ancona, Italy, December 9, 1989.
1988: "American Museum of the Moving Image." Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice, Italy, October 10, 2002: "Ulmer in New Jersey," International Edgar G. Ulmer Symposium, New School University (NY), November 1, 2002.
1996: "New York, New York: America's East Coast Production Center." Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, Valencia, Spain, July 4, 1996.
1993: "Austrian Film Emigration." Viennale '93, Vienna, Austria, October 9, 1993.
1989: "De Mille, Paramount, and Astoria." Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Ancona, Italy, December 9, 1989.
1988: "American Museum of the Moving Image." Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice, Italy, October 10, 1988.
1986: "Writing a History of American Film." Columbia University Seminar in Cinema and Inter- Disciplinary Interpretation, New York, December 11, 1986.
Papers, Abstracts, and Lectures:
1988: "Technological History of Film and Video at the American Museum of the Moving Image." Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (NY), October 15, 1988.
Other Presentations, Lectures, Demonstrations (TV, Radio):
2009: "Hollywood on the Hudson." Pearl River (NY) Public Library, May 17, 2009.
2009: "Meet the Scholars." New York Public Library (Lincoln Center) Riverside Branch, May 14, 2009.
2009: ""Hollywood on the Hudson." Westfield (NJ) Memorial Library, March 12, 2009.
2009: "Hollywood on the Hudson." UCLA Film Archives/Armand Hammer Museum, Beverly Hills, CA, January 16 and January 17, 2009.
2008: "Hollywood on the Hudson." Fort Lee Community Center, December 3, 2008.
2009: Introduction and Discussion of 'Orphans of the Storm'. CUNY/City Cinematheque. Airdate October 2009.
2008: Rouben Mamoulian and 'Applause'," Fort Lee Public Library, Fort Lee, New Jersey, November 17, 2008.
2008: "Habsburgs in Hollywood." Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, November 10, 2008.
2008: "Hollywood on the Hudson," Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, New York, October 26, 2008.
2008: "Hollywood on the Hudson." Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy. October 4, 2008.
2008: "Blacklist in Hollywood." William Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, N.J., September 26, 2008.
2008: "African-American Cinema in New Jersey." William Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, N.J., September 25, 2008.
2008: "Moguls and Movie Stars." TCM Documentary on History of American Cinema. Filmed interview, September 22, 2008 .
2008: "Hollywood on the Hudson." Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 17, 2008.
2008: "Fort Lee Today." Co-host for presentation of four early films shot in Fort Lee (Time/Warner, Bergen Community Television, Channel 81, 2008).
2008: "Erich von Stroheim, Profligate Genius." Filmed interview in DVD documentary "The Young Indiana Jones Documentaries, Episode 22" (JAK Films/Lucasfilm, Ltd., 2008).
2007: Introduction and Discussion of 'Foolish Wives.' CUNY/City Cinematheque. Televised September 2007.
2007: "Film Research Issues." Moving Image Institute, New York Times/Museum of the Moving Image (NY), April 21, 2007. 2008: "Erich von Stroheim, Profligate Genius." Filmed interview in DVD documentary "The Young Indiana Jones Documentaries, Episode 22" (JAK Films/Lucasfilm, Ltd., 2008).
2007: Introduction and Discussion of 'Foolish Wives.' CUNY/City Cinematheque. Televised September 2007.
2007: "Film Research Issues." Moving Image Institute, New York Times/Museum of the Moving Image (NY), April 21, 2007.
2006: "Presentation of the Restored 1912 Eclair America 'Robin Hood'," Fine Arts Cinema festival, Beverly Hills, California, June 23, 2006.
2006: "Arbuckle in Fort Lee," Museum of Modern Art, May 6, 2006.
2006: "Fort Lee: Early Film Capital." Museum of Modern Art (NY), January 18, 2006.
2005: "A Walking Tour of Queens," filmed interview at the Astoria Studio. James Nicoloro/WNET (2005).
2005: "Paramount's 'Laughter'," Museum of the Moving Image (NY), July 17, 2005.
2005: "Arbuckle's Fort Lee Filmmaking," Teaneck (NJ) Public Library, April 1, 2005.
2005: Presentation of Kino Edison DVD set on Leonard Lopate show (WNYC, NY), March 14, 2005.
2005: "Edison and 'The Unbeliever'," Museum of Modern Art (NY), March 12, 2005.
2005: "Edison: The Invention of the Movies." Filmed interview for DVD edition of Edison films (KINO, 2005).
2005: "New Jersey Film History." New Jersey Historical Society/Newark Museum, January 8, 2005.
2004: "Fort Lee, the Film Town," American Museum of the Moving Image (NY), November 20, 2004.
2004: "Early Fort Lee Cinema," Fort Lee Public Library, November 16, 2004.
2004: "Fort Lee Film History," Fort Lee Historic Museum/PIP, November 14, 2004.
2004: "Fort Lee the Film Town," Border's Books (Fort Lee, New Jersey), November 13, 2004.
2003: "Films from Fort Lee," Fort Lee Public Library film program, December 4, 2003.
2003: "Films from Fort Lee," Fort Lee Public Library film program, November 13, 2003.
2003: "Fort Lee the Film Town," Border's Books (Fort Lee, NJ), August 19, 2003.
2003: "Fort Lee the Film Town," Barnes & Noble (Edgewater, NJ), July 17, 2003.
2003: "Queen Kelly." Full audio commentary for DVD edition of 1928 film (KINO, 2003).
2003: "Foolish Wives." Full audio commentary track for DVD edition of 1922 film (KINO, 2003).
2002: "Victorian Cinema in New York." Victorian Society (NY), May 28, 2002.
2001: "Reconstructing Stroheim's 'Greed'." American Museum of the Moving Image (NY), November 24, 2001.
1999: "Filmmaking in New Jersey." Presentation on New Jerseytimes, Rutgers Unversity Office of Radio and TV (1999).
1999: "Stroheim, Norris and the complete 'Greed'." Rutgers University, December 3, 1999. 1999: "The Silent Film in New York." Museum of Modern Art (NY), November 5, 1999.
1999: "The 'Greed' Reconstruction." Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy, October 14, 1999.
1998: "Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream" (Gabler/Jacobovici). Filmed interview (1998).
1996: "Understanding Television" (Cronkite-Ward). Filmed interview (1996).
1995: "Karl Struss: The Cinematographer." Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, March 26, 1995.
1982: "Wajda's 'Man of Iron' and the Polish Crisis." CUNY Graduate Center, New York, March 12, 1982.
1973: "Methodological Problems in Cinema Studies Research," Speech Communications Association (New York), November 10, 1973.
Organizing and Chairing Activities
Participation in Organizing or Chairing Conferences, Workshops, and Organizations:
2005-2005: "Olive Thomas Symposium," Fort Lee Film Commission/Palisades Interstate Park Commission (panel chair), May 14, 2005.
2005-2005: "Roscoe Arbuckle Symposium," Fort Lee Film Commission/Palisades Interstate Park Commission (panel chair), April 10, 2005.
1998-1998: "Before Hollywood: The Debut of an Art and Industry in New York," New-York Historical Society (panel chair), May 28, 1998.
1989-1989: "American Moviemakers: The Dawn of Sound" (panel chair). Museum of Modern Art (NY), November 21, 1989.
1985-1985: "The Role of the Producer in Genre and History" (panel chair). Society for Cinema Studies (New York), June 12, 1985.
Editorial Activities
Editorship of Scholarly or Professional Journals:
1987-ongoing: Editor-in-Chief, "Film History: An International Journal," John Libbey/Indiana University Press.
Service
Contributions to the Advancement of the Academic Profession:
2007-2007: Reviewer, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
2007-2007: Outside reviewer for promotion, Prof. Lisa Dombrowski, Wesleyan University. 2007-2007: Outside reviewer for promotion, Prof. Shelley Stamp, University of California Santa Cruz.
2006-2006: Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, "Rhetoric and Communications," August 2, 2006.
2005-2005: Dissertation Committee Member, Hilary-Anne Hallett, The Graduate Center (CUNY).
2003-2003: Reviewer, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
1992-1992: Dissertation Committee member, Alan David Vertrees, Columbia University GSAS.
1992-1992: Dissertation Committee member, Theodore Barber, Dept. of Performance Studies, New York University.
1991-1991: Dissertation Committee member, Angela Aleiss, Columbia University GSAS.
Service to Other Public Bodies:
2005-2007: Judge, "Bergen County Filmmakers of Tomorrow" annual student film festival.
2001-ongoing: Member, Fort Lee Film Commission.
Service to Rutgers University:
2001-2001: Judge, Marius Bewley Prize.
2002-ongoing: Executive Committee, Rutgers University Cinema Studies Faculty
2001-ongoing: Adviser, the Media Center, Rutgers University Libraries.
2002-2002: Technology Committee, member.
1998-2001: Member, Drop-in Advising Committee.
Students Supervised
Students Supervised for Independent Studies:
2007: Daniel Larkins, Independent Study, "Definition and Origins of Film Noir and Neo-Noir"
2006: Matthew Phelan, Henry Rutgers Scholar, "'Grass' and the Making of Merian C. Cooper" (reader)
2006: Roger Taylor, Henry Rutgers Scholar, "Jakarta--a Screenplay"
2006: Nicholas Crowe, Honors Thesis, "Billy Wilder: Issues of an Outsider"
2006: Maisa Chang, Aresty Intern, "Creating and Organizing Catalog and Storage of Cinema Studies Video Archive"
2006: Elizabeth Allen, Aresty Intern, "Creating and Organizing Catalog and Storage of Cinema Studies Video Archive"
2004: Lauren Czarnecki, Independent Study
2003: Gustavo Silva, Honors Thesis, "The Expression of Surrealism in the Works of David Lynch and John Waters" (reader)
Master's or Doctoral Students by Type of Supervision:
2008: Theresa Geller (Member of Thesis Committee and [2001] Orals Committee)
Academic Advisement:
Drop-In Advising Committee (1998-2002), approximately 100 students each year, in addition to general student advising responsibilities for class load of 100-150 students each semester.