J. Hoberman

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Jim Hoberman (born 1948), also known as J. Hoberman is a prominent American film critic. He's currently the senior film critic for The Village Voice, a post he has held since 1988.

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[edit] Education

After receiving an M.A. in Film Studies from Columbia University he began working for the Voice as third-stringer under Andrew Sarris specializing in experimental film. His first film review was in 1977 for David Lynch's Eraserhead, an avant-garde midnight movie.

[edit] Present career

He's presently a professor of film studies at Cooper Union in New York, and he's lectured on Communism in Film at Harvard University. He's a notable contributor to Film Comment magazine, where he serves as one of the editors. Hoberman has published several books, including a collaboration with Chicago Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, entitled Midnight Movies, written in 1983.

[edit] Partial bibliography

[edit] As author

  • The Magic Hour
  • The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties
  • Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds
  • Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Film and Other Media
  • Home Made Movies: Twenty Years of American 8Mm & Super-8 Films
  • 42nd Street (BFI Film Classics)
  • Dennis Hopper: From Method to Madness
  • The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism

[edit] As co-author

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