Catherine Russell
Professor
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd O.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3G 1M8
Tel: 514 848-2424 extension 4657
e-mail:

Ph.D., New York University, 1990

Office Hours:
FB 315-4, Wed. (2pm to 4pm)

I am co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, with Charles Acland

New Publications

The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

Reviews of The Cinema of Naruse Mikio:
Cineaste Summer 2009
Monumenta Nipponica 64:1 (2009)
Screening the Past

Silent Ozu DVD Review Cineaste Fall 2008

“Mini-Cinema: A Digital Diary for iPod,” CineAction! 73/74 (2008): 2-7.

“Double Obsession: Sex, Death, and Oshima,” Video Essay for Criterion Collection DVD release of Empire of Passion, April 2009


Videoblog FNC
Will Straw and Catherine Russell discuss “My Winnipeg”

I am teaching the first half of Methods in Film Studies in Fall 09 (Dr. Marc Steinberg is teaching the second half); and FMST 800/3 Archiveology: Theorizing the Moving Picture Archive, the first half of the proseminar for the PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia. (Dr. Martin Lefebvre is teaching the second half).

In Winter 2010 I will be teaching a new course on American Cinema of the 1950s.

FMST 600 - Methods in Film Studies
Click here for the syllabus.
Mondays, 1:15pm - 5pm, Full Year
FB 250

FMST 800 - Archiveology: Theorizing the Moving Image Archive
Click here for the syllabus.
Thursdays, 13:00 - 17:00
EV 6-421

In the past I have taught undergrad courses on:

• Women and Film
  
• The Western
  
• Japanese Cinema
  
• Experimental Documentary

and grad courses on:

• Experimental Ethnography
  
• Walter Benjamin