COURSES
I teach a range of courses in the general area of film history, and I regularly teach courses that are based on my principal areas of research, Soviet/Russian cinema and documentary film. My recent teaching schedule has included the following array of courses:

CA 352 - History of World Cinema
CA 358 - History of Documentary Film
CA 456 - Russian and Soviet Cinema
CA 950 - Documentary Theory
CA 958 - Film Historiography

DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES
I teach and do research in the history of cinema. Much of the work I have done over the years has concerned the relationship between film and social history, considering how major films have addressed their socio-historical contexts. These interests were first sparked during my graduate education (I had the good fortune to study film in this
department, and I had outstanding teachers who are now outstanding colleagues.) This emphasis on historical context served me well in the research area I have cultivated since my days in graduate school, Russian/Soviet cinema; that national cinema, in particular, has always had a strong political dimension. I have consistently found that studying Russian/Soviet cinema provides insight into the history of
modern Russia, and I try to convey that in my teaching in the area. This interest in the social dimension of cinema has also informed my more recent research projects on documentary film, since documentary is a mode that often directly addresses topical social issues. I annually teach undergraduate courses in these two areas of Russian film and documentary, and I have found that my research really does benefit my teaching, especially in my Russian course.

My hobbies, which are shared with my wife and best friend Betty Kepley, are seasonally determined: tennis in summer and alpine skiing in winter. I expect that I would find eternal contentment if it were somehow possible to move Summit County, Colorado closer to Madison, Wisconsin.

DEGREES

• B.A. University of Illinois, 1973
  
• M.A. University of Wisconsin, 1976
  
• PhD. University of Wisconsin, 1978
  

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Current projects:

"Democratic Didacticism: Emile de Antonio and
Documentary Film" (monograph on a documentary filmmaker).

Selected Publications:

"The End of St. Petersburg: The Film Companion"
(monograph on a major Soviet film), 2003.

In the Service of the State: The Cinema of Alexander
Dovzhenko (Madison, WI, 1986).

Guest editor, Wide Angle 12, 4 (1990), special issue on
modern Russian film.

"The Evolution of Eisenstein's Old and New," Cinema Journal 14, 1 (1974).

"Intolerance and the Soviets: A Historical
Investigation," Wide Angle 3, no. 1 (1979).

"Spatial Articulation in the Classical Cinema: A Scene from His Girl Friday," Wide Angle 5, 3 (1983).

"The Workers' International Relief and the Cinema of the Left, 1921-35" Cinema Journal 23, 1 (1983).

"The Origins of Soviet Cinema: A Study in Industry Development," Quarterly Review of Film Studies 10, 1 (1985).

"The Kuleshov Workshop," Iris 4 1 (1986).

"Soviet Cinema and State Control: Lenin's Nationalization Degree Reconsidered," Journal of Film and Video 42, 2 (1990).

"The Weaver Years at NBC," Wide Angle 12, 2 (1990).

"Eisenstein as Pedagogue," Quarterly Review of Film and Video 14, 4 (1993).

"Pudovkin, Socialist Realism, and the Classical Hollywood Style," Journal of Film and Video 47, 4 (1995).

"Federal Cinema: The Soviet Film Industry, 1924-32," Film History 8, 3 (1996).

"Eisenstein and Soviet Cinema," in Defining Cinema, ed. Peter Lehman (New Brunswick, NJ, 1997).

"The Order of Point of Order," Film History 13, 2 (2001).