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Professor John David Rhodes

BA (Univ. of the South) MA (Columbia) PhD (NYU)

John David Rhodes works on European and American cinema, with a strong focus on Italian cinema and culture. He is especially interested in putting cinema into conversation with other artistic, cultural and material forms. Professor Rhodes offers supervisions on a wide range of topics in Italian, European, American and international cinema, in addition to aesthetic theory, queer theory, the history and theory of modernism in film, literature and the other arts, as well as other (often interdisciplinary) topics and areas. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently, Spectacle of Property: the House in American Film. His ongoing work on the intersection of film history, urban history, and architectural history took shape in his first book Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome. In 2015 he established Cambridge Film and Screen, an institution which houses the University’s MPhil and PhD programmes in Film and Screen Studies. He is a founding editor of the journal world picture.

Professor Rhodes is the Director of the Centre for Film and Screen, which is home to the University’s postgraduate degrees in Film and Screen Studies.

College Position

Fellow

University Position

Professor of Film Studies and Visual Culture in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

College Offices/Posts

Warden of Leckhampton, Director of Studies in Modern & Medieval Languages