| David Desser |
| David Desser is Professor of Cinema Studies
and Speech Communication, UIUC, and Acting Director of the Unit for Cinema Studies. He
received his Ph.D. from USC in 1981. He is the author of The Samurai Films of Akira
Kurosawa and Eros Plus Massacre: an Introduction to the Japanese New
Wave Cinema. He is the co-author of American Jewish Film Makers: Traditions and
Trends. He is the editor of Ozu's Tokyo Story, and the co-editor of Reframing
Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History, Reflections in a Male Eye:
John Juston and the American Experience, and Cinematic Landscapes: Observations
on the Visual Arts and Cinema in China and Japan. He has two more anthologies in
press, one on American cinema and consumer culture, the other on Hong Kong cinema, due out
in Fall/Winter 2000. |
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