Bio

Gavriel Moses holds degrees in Comparative Literature (Brown University), in Italian and English Literatures and Philology (Université de Fribourg) and in Film Making (London International Film School). His recent teaching in Film Studies has encompassed courses on Italian Cinema History and Genres; on Auteur Effects in Antonioni Kieslowski and Rohmer; on Cultural Objects in Cinema; on Films on Film & Novels on Film; and on Love, Violence, Body, Language, and Other Anxieties in Recent American Cinema.

His current research interests address history and theory of the representational apparatus since the Italian Renaissance; genres and colonial subjects; and self and the thresholds of discourse in Cinema. He is currently completing a book on the the Bible in cinema, with a focus on its role as and effects on the representation of religious material culture in cinema. He has recently spoken on Fellini, on Melodrama, and on Orientalism from Lean to Gitai, at conferences in Seattle, Bologna, and Venice respectively.

Selected Publications

Books

BibleGum: The Bible as Cultural Object[s] in American Cinema [in progress]

The Nickel Was for the Movies: Film in the Novel Pirandello to Puig (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

Book Chapters

"The Bible as Cultural Object[s] in Cinema," in A Companion to Film and Literature, Robert Stam, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming).

"La Bibbia come oggetto e come presenza nel cinema americano contemporaneo," in Il Cinema e la Bibbia, Stefano Socci ed. (Brescia: Editrice Morcelliana, 2001).

“Damiel Does L.A., ovvero: Quanti corpi sulla punta di uno spillo?,” in The Body Vanishes: La crisi dell’identità e del soggetto nel cinema americano contemporaneo, Franco La Polla ed. (Torino: Lindau, 1999), 45-57.

“Resistance is not futile: medici di bordo, pappagalli e formiche,” in Star Trek: Il cielo è il limite, Franco La Polla ed. (Torino: Lindau, 1998), 125-137.

"Natural Born Discourse: soggetto e linguaggi nel cinema americano," in Poetiche del cinema hollywoodiano contemporaneo, Franco La Polla ed. (Torino: Lindau, 1997), 49-71.

"Alt[ro]man: Pre-Testi ed altri Testi," in Robert Altman: Un acrobata nel circo americano, Roberto Salvadori ed. (Firenze: Loggia de' Lanzi, 1997), 67-83.

Conference Proceedings

"Sleepwalking in the Snow: Antonioni and the Voice of the Canon," in RLA: Romance Languages Annual 1996, Vol. VIII, Eds. Ben Lawton, Jeanette Beer, Patricia Hart (West Lafayette IN: Purdue Research Foundation, 1997):238-244.

"The Subject Between Literature and Film: Antonioni & Visconti," in Filmic Identity, Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Kent State University International Film Conference - April 14-15 1992 (Kent State: 1993): 45-53.

"Riflessioni sul metalinguaggio: The Clapperboad Effect" in Il cinema: verso il centenario, Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Roma, dicembre 1988), eds. Guido e Teresa Aristarco (Bari: Dedalo, 1992): 45-51.

"Opus a Hollywood: Daffy Duck e Montale tra letteratura e cinema," in Bologna, la cultura italiana e le letterature straniere moderne, Atti Congresso Internazionale Bologna (17-22 ottobre 1988), vol. II (Ravenna: Longo, 1992):193-199.

Journal Articles

"as we [they] see [hear] them [us]: Cain/Antonioni//Antonioni/Coppola," VIA, II, 1(Spring 1991), 1-8.