Haden Guest
Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies

A film historian, curator and archivist, Guest is director of the Harvard Film Archive, overseeing the HFA´s cinematheque, preservation program, research initiatives and its renowned collections. Guest's research focuses principally upon studio-era Hollywood cinema, postwar American experimental film, and contemporary Argentine, Latin American and French cinema. Guest received a PhD in 2005 from the University of California, Los Angeles and is currently expanding his dissertation, a critical history of the Hollywood police procedural film between 1930-60, into a book. A frequent contributor to Film Comment, Guest is also completing an anthology of unpublished and uncollected writings by maverick American director Sam Fuller.