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Hubert I. Cohen Professor of Screen Arts & Cultures, The Residential College, Ph.D. University of Michigan. Professor Cohen's degree was in English and American Literature, but in his teaching he draws on world literature. Publications: Professor Cohen has published a biographical and critical study of Ingmar Bergman and his films, Ingmar Bergman: The Arts of Confession. He is currently working on a book on the Western. Classes taught: For The Residential College's Literature Program he teaches courses entitled Fathers and Sons, The Hero as Outsider, Outcast or Outlaw, and Classical, Biblical and Medieval Texts and Their Modern [in literature and film] Counterparts. For the Program in Film and Video Studies and for the Residential College's Arts and Ideas Program, he teaches Art of the Film, a course that introduces students to filmmaking to create film's emotional and cognitive impact. In the last few years he has also taught courses that study the films of directors Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen (or a course that traces the influence of Bergman on Allen), a course on the Western film, and one on Writing Film Criticism. Over the years he has taught courses or written on a number of other film directors, for example, Harold Lloyd, Frank Capra, Orson Welles, Robert Altman, Michael Curtiz, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Fuller, Robert Bresson, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Francois Truffaut, Sajit Ray, Wim Wenders, and Werver Herzog. back |
