Ira Konigsberg, Emeritus


email: ikonigsb@umich.edu

 


 


Professor of Screen Arts & Cultures, English Language and LiteraturePh.D. (English) Stanford, 1961 Professor Konigsberg's The Complete Film Dictionary has become a standard reference work in both film studies and the film industry. He also publishes widely in the areas of Psychology and Film, and World Cinema. He was Director of the Program in Film and Video Studies from 1988-1995.
Publications: The Complete Film Dictionary, 2nd ed. (New York: Penguin Putnam), 1997; London: Bloomsbury Press, 1997); "Our Children and the Limits of Cinema: Early Jewish Responses to the Holocaust," Film Quarterly (Fall, 1998); "The Only "I" in the World': Religion, Psychoanalysis and The Dybbuk," Cinema Journal (Summer, 1997); "Transitional Phenomena, Transitional Space: Creativity and Spectatorship in Film," The Psychoanalytic Review (Dec., 1996); The Movies: Texts, Receptions, and Exposures, co-ed. (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996); "Cave Paintings and Cinema," Wide Angle (Spring, 1996); "Urban Violence and Childhood Trauma in the Cinema," Psvchoanalysis and Psychotherapy (Winter, 1995); "Cinema, Psychoanalysis, and Hermeneutics: G. W. Pabst's Secrets of a Soul," Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall , 1995); "Film Theory," in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (Johns Hopkins Press, 1993); The Complete Film Dictionary (New York: New American Library, 1987; 11th printing, 1996; London: Bloomsbury Press, 1988); Narrative Technique in the English Novel: Defoe to Austen (Archon, 1985); American Criticism in the Poststructuralist Age, ed., (Michigan Studies in the Humanities, 1982).
Classes taught: World Film, Film Theory and Criticism, Psychology and Film, The Films of Ingmar Bergman, The Horror Film, Film Comedy, Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave, Evil in Cinema, Future Worlds and Future Visions in Cinema.


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