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Roger Hallas
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (2002) Cinema Studies, New York University
Office: 428 HL, 443-9468
Email:
rhallas@syr.edu
Interests: Documentary media, experimental film and video, lesbian and gay studies, globalization, exhibition culture and the archive, film theory, world cinema, popular culture, visual culture and trauma studies.
Books
Articles
Encyclopedia Entries
Reviews
Recent Presentations
Awards
Courses Taught
Books
Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness and the Queer Moving Image (Duke University Press, under contract).
The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture , co-edited with Frances Guerin (Wallflower Press, forthcoming 2007).
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Articles
“The ‘Face’ of AIDS: Commodity Compassion and the Global Pandemic,” in What Democracy is Like: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World, ed. Amy Schrager Lang and Cecelia Tichi (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 88-101.
“AIDS and Gay Cinephilia.” Camera Obscura 18, no. 1 (2003), 85-127.
“The Resistant Corpus.” Millennium Film Journal 41 (Fall 2003), 53-60.
“The Witness in the Archive.” The Scholar and the Feminist Online 2, no. 1 (Summer 2003), available at http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/
“The Genealogical Pedagogy of John Greyson’s Zero Patience.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 12, no. 1 (Spring 2003), 16-37.
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Encyclopedia Entries
“Looking for Langston” and “Shinjuku Boys.” In Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, ed. Ian Aitken (London: Routledge, 2005), 821-823, 1216-1217.
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Reviews
“Thinking in Time: Review of Shadows, Specters, Shards: Avant-Garde Film and the Making of History ,” Afterimage (January/February 2007), 35.
“Reviewing Orthodoxies: Review of A New History of Documentary Film,” Afterimage 33, no. 5 (March/April, 2006), 43-44.
“Archaeological Digging in the June Gloom: The 51st Robert Flaherty Seminar,” Afterimage 33, no. 1 (July/August 2005): 7-8.
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Recent Presentations
“ An Inconvenient Truth and the Rhetoric of Global Magnitude,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies , Chicago , March 11, 2007.
“Animated Photojournalism: Old and New Media in the Work of Gideon Mendel,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 3, 2006.
“Testimonial Databases,” Visible Evidence XII Conference, Montreal, August 21-25, 2005.
“Embodying Capital: Performance and the Body in the Anti-Corporate Documentary,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London, April 2, 2005.
“The Place of Documentary,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London, April 2, 2005 (workshop presentation).
“Framing AIDS as Historical Trauma,” LGBT Studies: Local, National and Global Perspectives, Syracuse, October 23, 2004.
“Relating the Subject/s of Global AIDS,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, March 6, 2004.
“Dying in Public: Derek Jarman and the ‘Pandemonium of the Image’” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Minneapolis, March 6, 2003.
“The Queer Dynamics of Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals.” Queer Visualities Conference, Stony Brook University, November 15, 2002.
“The Talking Head and the Shadow Archive.” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver, May 25, 2002.
“Doubly Difficult?: Teaching Queer Experimental Media.” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver, May 24, 2002.
“A Cinema of Small Gestures.” Cinephilia Symposium, New York University, February 22, 2002.
“Queer Cinephilia and AIDS.” Persistent Vision Conference, San Francisco, June 19, 2001.
“AIDS and Cinephilia in Queer Experimental Film.” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington D.C., May 25, 2001.
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Awards
English Department Graduate Teaching Award
Tolley Junior Faculty Summer Grant
NYU Dean's Dissertation Fellowship
Jay Leyda Memorial Teaching Fellowship
Lew and Edie Wasserman Scholarship
The Queen’s College Travel Scholarship
Laming Fund Benefactor's Prize
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Courses Taught
Undergraduate
Documenting Sexualities (Spring 2008)
Cinema and the Documentary Idea
Contemporary British Cinema
Film and Culture
Film Form/Film Theory
Interpretation of Film
The Media of Witnessing
National and Postcolonial Cinema
Reading Popular Culture
Visual Culture
World Cinema
Graduate
Cinema and the Documentary Idea
Cinema and the World
Film Theory
Visual Culture
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