September 4-6, 2009

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The AJC Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical

Matthew Bernstein

filmstudies.emory.edu/bernstein.html

Festival Appearance(s):

Matthew H. Bernstein is currently Professor, Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in the Film Studies Department at Emory University, where, since 1989, he has taught courses on film analysis, Hollywood history, film comedy, African Americans in Film, Japanese cinema, nonfiction film and postwar European film.

Bernstein is the author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent (University of California Press, 1994; rpt. University of Minnesota Press in 2000), a biography of the producer of Stagecoach, Queen Christina and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and many other classic movies, for which he received an NEH Research Grant. His Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and TV, was published in February 2009 by the University of Georgia Press

He is editor of Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era (Rutgers University Press, 1999).

He is also co-editor (with Gaylyn Studlar) of Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film (Rutgers University Press, 1997), and of John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era (Indiana University Press, 2001).

He serves on the editorial boards of Cinema Journal and the Journal of Film and Video, and he is the Book Review Editor for Film Quarterly. His reviews and essays have appeared in those publications, as well as Film Criticism, Film History, Griffithiana, The Velvet Light Trap, Post Script and Wide Angle, as well as several anthologies. His essay on the Oscar Micheaux film Murder in Harlem won the Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award from The Society for Cinema and Media Studies for outstanding scholarship in film and media studies in 2005.

He is also editing an anthology on the films of Michael Moore, which will be published in 2010. With Emory urban historian Professor Dana F. White, he is writing an NEH-sponsored history of segregated movie-going in Atlanta from 1895 Cotton States Exposition to the 1962 desegregation of theaters. He would welcome hearing any stories from any of you with memories of moviegoing in Atlanta.

He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, and currently serves on the National Film Preservation Board, which advises the Librarian of Congress about films to be named annually to the National Film Registry. He also serves as the host/moderator for the The Cinema Club, which screens new foreign and American independent films before their commercial opening in Atlanta. Their 12th season begins on Sunday, September 13. In Spring 2006, he received the first annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Award; in spring 2008, he received the IMAGE Award in “for exceptional contributions to independent film and media arts” in Atlanta.

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