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Film

Todd Berliner
Associate Professor
Film Studies

Areas of Interest

• Film history, aesthetics, theory and criticism
• American Cinema
• Hollywood films of the 1970's
• Genre films and genre theory
• John Cassavetes
• Martin Scorcese
• Cognition of cinema, and cognitive film theory
• theater and cinema

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Bio:

Dr. Berliner's courses focus on aesthetics, which is the study of what people in fact value about art (the pleasure it gives them) as opposed to what people typically feel they ought to value about it (its meaning).

Berliner regularly Teaches Introduction to Film Study, American Cinema 1927-1960, American Cinema Since 1961, Film Noir, Hollywood Films of the 1970s, Cognitive Film Theory, Theater and Cinema, Shakespeare.

Publications:

Todd Berliner, “Visual Absurdity in Raging Bull” in Martin Scorsese’s "Raging Bull": A Cambridge Film Handbook. Ed. Kevin Hayes. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, UK 2005), 41-68. PDF file

Todd Berliner, Review of Cassavetes on Cassavetes (Ray Carney, Faber and Faber), Quarterly Review of Film and Video 20:4 (Oct-Dec 2003), 292-295.

Todd Berliner and Philip Furia, "The Sounds of Silence: Songs In Hollywood Films Since the 1960s." Style , 36:1 (Spring 2002), 19-35. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2342/1_36/89985874/p1/article.jhtml

Todd Berliner, “The Pleasures of Disappointment: Sequels and The Godfather, Part II.” Journal of Film and Video, 53: 2-3 (Summer/Fall 2001).

Todd Berliner, "The Genre Film as Booby Trap: Seventies Genre Bending and The French Connection ." Cinema Journal 40:3 (Spring 2001), 25-46.

Todd Berliner, "Hollywood Movie Dialogue and the 'Real Realism' of John Cassavetes." Film Quarterly 52:3 (Spring 1999), 2-16. http://www.findarticles.com/m1070/3_52/54731367/p1/article.jhtml

Awards and Grants:

Fulbright Scholar Award to Vietnam, 2005-2006, Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema.
Research Grant, UNC-Wilmington, summer 2004, to support research on the cognition of cinema.
U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Information Programs to travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to lecture and serve as a consult on film studies program and curriculum development. Advised faculty in the Communication Studies Department at Pontifica Universidade Católica as it formulated a film studies program. May 10-18, 2002.
Charles Cahill Award, travel grant to conduct archival research in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Summer 2002,
Research Grant, UNC-Wilmington. Summer 2000.
Research Grant, UNC-Wilmington. Summer 1997.
Highest Distinction in General Scholarship (Summa Cum Laude), UC Berkeley, 1986
Phi Beta Kappa, UC Berkeley, 1986

Location: Leutze 117
Phone: 910/962-3336
Email: berlinert@uncw.edu