Professor Doane’s research has focused recently on the organization of time and space in cinema in relation to other discursive regimes such as philosophy, physics, geography, art history, physiognomy and psychoanalysis. This fall she completed a book manuscript, ‘Bigger Than Life’: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema (forthcoming, Duke University Press, 2021), which addresses the way in which cinematic scale is strongly implicated in a more general reconfiguration of the subject’s relation to space, distance, location and scale in modernity and beyond. Cinema’...
Marilyn Fabe teaches courses in the history and aesthetics of the silent film (25A), the history and theory of the sound film (25B), the avant-garde film, auteur courses on Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Woody Allen and Howard Hawks (151), the Film Musical and the Musical/Noir (108), and Film 50, Introduction to World Cinema. Her book Closely Watched Films, updated for a tenth anniversary edition, focuses on the accomplishments of fifteen film directors, beginning with D.W. Griffith and ending with James Cameron, illustrating each director’s contribution to...
Class of 1939 Professor of German and Film & Media
Professor Kaes is the author of several books in English and German that deal with multidisciplinary and comparative aspects of film history and theory. He teaches silent film, the history of German cinema, and American film noir, with special emphasis on the film culture of the Weimar Republic as well as the relationship between film, memory, and trauma. He also offers courses in film theory and critical theory, including Frankfurt School and its aftermath. Teaching at Berkeley since 1981, he served as Director of Film Studies at UC Berkeley from 1991-1996 and Co-director (with Kaja...
Jeffrey Skoller is a filmmaker and writer. He teaches film/video production and courses on the histories and theories of experimental/avant-garde film and video art, documentary/non-fiction film, Third Cinema, activist and other counter-media practices. “In research and image-making, I explore relationships between film and contemporary art, the radical aesthetics and praxis of the political avant-garde; representations of history and time in experimental film and video, and contemporary cinematic hybrids such as the essay film, experimental documentary, animated documentary and expanded...
Linda Williams teaches courses on popular moving-image genres (pornography, melodrama, and “body genres” of all sorts). She has recently taught courses on Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, Luis Bunuel, David Lynch and Pedro Almodovar, melodrama, film theory, selected “sex genres,” and The Wire. Her books include a psychoanalytic study of Surrealist cinema, Figures of Desire (1981), a co-edited volume of feminist film criticism (Re-vision, 1984), an edited volume on film spectatorship, Viewing Positions ...
