D.N. RODOWICK
philosopher

Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies

Director of Graduate Studies for Film and Visual Studies

VES 172a: Film and Photography, Image and Narration
VES 271: Proseminar in Film and Visual Studies: Theory
Literature and Arts B-11: The Art of Film

The Virtual Life of Film (Harvard University Press, 2007)
Reprinted with the permission of Harvard University Press,
Copyright © 2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Rodowick is the author of numerous essays as well as five books: The Virtual Life of Film (Harvard University Press, 2007); Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media (Duke University Press, 2001); Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine (Duke University Press, 1997); The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Film Theory (Routledge, 1991); and The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory (University of Illinois Press, 1989; 2nd edition, University of California Press, 1994). Having taught at Yale University until 1991, Rodowick began the film studies program there. After studying cinema and comparative literature at the University of Texas, Austin, and Université de Paris 3, he obtained a PhD at the University of Iowa in 1983. Rodowick subsequently taught at the University of Rochester and at King's College, University of London, where he founded the film studies program and the Film Study Center. Special research interests include aesthetics and the philosophy of art, the history of film theory, philosophical approaches to contemporary art and culture, and the impact of new technologies on contemporary society. Rodowick has also been an award-winning experimental filmmaker and video artist. In 2002, he was named an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His edited collection, The Afterimage of Gilles Deleuze's Film Philosophy, will be published by University of Minnesota Press in 2009.