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Faculty :: Desser

David M. Desser

(Ph.D. USC)
Director, Unit for Cinema Studies; Professor Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature, and EALC Research Professor, Institute for Communication Research:

History, criticism and aesthetics of Japanese, Chinese (especially Hong Kong) and Korean cinema.

217-244-2705
desser@uiuc.edu


Author of The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa and Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema; editor of Ozu's Tokyo Story and the co-editor of Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History, Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema in China and Japan, and The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. I provided the commentary on the Criterion Collection DVD of Tokyo Story.
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