MCM Graduate Program

 

Michael Siegel

Email Address

Michael_Siegel@brown.edu

Website

http://www.provfrenchfilm.com/

Biography

Year entered: 2001

Dissertation: 'Roma de Profundis: The Eternal City in the Films of Dario Argento."

Board of Directors, 8th Annual Providence French Film Festival

Research interests: international art cinema, Italian cinema, experimental cinema, early and "pre"-cinema, ethnographic cinema, travel films, science films, everyday fascism, historical fascism, theories of subjectivity, poststructuralist theory, theories of space, the concept of excess, the history and theory of vision and visuality, theories of power, Marxist theory,

Personal interests: travel, teaching, cooking, hiking, music, politics and activism, Pittsburgh sports teams