VES 180: Film, Modernity and Visual Culture
VES 181: Frames of Mind: Film Theory
VES 185x: Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion,
and Material Culture
VES 271: Proseminar in Film and
Visual Studies: Theory

Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts, (MiT Press, 2007). Reprinted with permission of MIT Press.

Bruno explores the intersections of film, the visual arts, and the design of space. Her work focuses, in particular, on contemporary art and moving-image installations, architecture and urban culture, fashion and visual environment, and the culture of travel. Her seminal work Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (Verso, 2002), for which she won the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award in Culture and History— a prize awarded to "the world's best book on the moving image"—has provided new directions to film and visual studies. Atlas was also honored as Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association, and named a Book of the Year 2004 in the Guardian. Its mobility theory has inspired a new journal of visual culture, Aria, published in English and Italian. Her new book on art and film, Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts, was published by MIT Press in 2007. Bruno has published four other books. Jane and Louise Wilson: A Free and Anonymous Monument (Film and Video Umbrella and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, 2004) examines the multi-screen art installation of the Turner Prize nominees. Streetwalking on a Ruined Map (Princeton University Press, 2002), a journey through modernity and cultural memory, won the 1995 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for best book in film studies, and received the 1995 Premio Filmcritica, Italy's national book award for moving-image studies. Off Screen was devoted to women and film in Italy (Routledge, 1988), and Immagini allo schermo (Rosenberg & Sellier, 1991) was named one of the 50 Best Books of the First 100 Years of Film History. Her essays on the visual arts are also published in international books, art
monographs such as Isaac Julien (Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2005), as well as exhibition catalogs of the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Bruno lectures internationally on visual culture, including, recently, at universities in Europe and Asia, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Dia Center for the Arts in New York, and the Tate Modern.