Robert Stam
Encyclopedia
Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University
, where he teaches about the French New Wave
filmmakers. Stam has published widely on French literature
, comparative literature
, and on film topics such as film history and film theory
.
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, where he teaches about the French New Wave
French New Wave
The New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of...
filmmakers. Stam has published widely on French literature
French literature
French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens...
, comparative literature
Comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
, and on film topics such as film history and film theory
Film theory
Film theory is an academic discipline that aims to explore the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large...
.
Books
- Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (Routledge, 2006)
- Francois Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation (Rutgers, 2006)
- Literature through Film: Realism, Magic and the Art of Adaptation (Blackwell, 2005)
- Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Adaptation (Blackwell, 2005)
- Companion to Literature and Film (Blackwell, 2004)
- Film and Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2000)
- Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media (Rutgers, 2000), coauthored with Ella Shohat
- A Companion to Film Theory (Blackwell, 1999), coedited with Toby Miller,
- Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (Duke, 1997)
- Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (Routledge, 1994), coauthored with Ella Shohat
- New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and Beyond (Routledge, 1992)
- Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film (Johns Hopkins, 1989)
- Reflexivity in Film and Literature (UMI Press, 1985)
- Brazilian Cinema (Associated University Presses, 1982)
- O Espetáculo Interrompido (The Interrupted Spectacle) in Portuguese (Paze e Terra, 1981)
- Bakhtin (Attica)