The Professor

Robert O. Paxton is a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University. He has published several books, including Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order and The Anatomy of Fascism.

Charles Musser is a professor of film and media studies at Yale University. His seventy-two-minute documentary Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch recently premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

Dudley Andrew, professor of film and comparative literature at Yale and author of What Cinema Is!, is the biographer of André Bazin and has written two books on French cinema and culture of the 1930s. He has also written on...

Writer, filmmaker, and broadcaster Kevin Jackson (1955–2021) was the author or editor of more than thirty books. He contributed regularly to Sight and Sound, the Guardian, and BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review, and his documentary work included coproducing Humphrey Jennings:...

William Paul, a professor of film and media studies at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of Ernst Lubitsch’s American Comedy; Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy; and When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution...

Paul Coates is a professor emeritus of film studies at Western University, Ontario. Previously, he taught at Georgia, McGill, and Aberdeen, and his books include The Story of the Lost Reflection (1985), The Gorgon’s Gaze (1991), Lucid Dreams: The Cinema...

Alan Williams is the author of Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking, and is a professor of French at Rutgers University.

Ian Christie is a film historian, curator, broadcaster, and professor of film and media history at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written and edited many books on Russian, British, and American cinema—including Arrows of Desire: The Films of...

Andrew Sarris (1928–2012) was a longtime critic at the Village Voice (from 1960 to 1989) and the New York Observer (from 1989 to 2009), and the author of numerous books, including The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929–1968 and “You...

Mar 24, 2025 — At the turn of the millennium, a loose collective of filmmakers—including Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg—made a splash with a provocative manifesto and a wave of audacious movies shot on digital video.