Haim Calev

Theoritician and Filmaker

MAIN FIELDS OF INTEREST

Cinematic Expression, Narratology

Email: optimus@kolnoa.net

 

 

 

Academic Education  Publications and Films Teaching and Research Cinematic Expression Site

                                                 

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

 

Ph.D.        Film Theory and Criticism
                 Columbia University, Film Division, New York.

M.F.A.     Film Directing and Producing
                 Columbia University, Film Division, New York.

                 Comparative Literature, completed all courses for the M.A.
                 Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

B.A.         English Literature and Political Science
                 Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

 Postmodernism in Cinema (250 p.), Optimus, Tel-Aviv, 2010

The Stream of Consciousness in the Films of Alain Resnais (250 p.) McGruer Pub., New York, 1997
Front Cover, Content, Introduction, Chapter One   Review at Film-Philosophy

Cinematic Expression, Cinematic Space (224 p.), Optimus, Tel-Aviv, 1996
Research Background

Cinematic Expression, Screen Time, Optimus, Tel-Aviv, (Forthcoming)

Website

 

Cinematic Expression Film Theory.

 

Articles and Book Chapters

 

Ritual and Ceremony in "Viridana" by Bunuel
              Motar 8, Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University, 2000

Ideology versus Mimesis in "Three Colors: White" by Kieslowski,
              Motar 6, Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University, 1998

Striving toward Cinematic Abstraction, Moznaim,Volume 68-4, January 1994

Four chapters on the films: "Je t'aime, je t'aime", "Stavisky","Providence","Mon oncle d'Amerique" published as a supplement to the Hebrew version of Roy Armes' The Cinema of Alain Resnais, Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1986

Fiction Films

 

List of Films and Abstracts List of Films, Abstracts and Credits

 

Internet Movie Data Base Presentation (IMDb)

 

Documentary Films

 

List of Films and Abstracts List of Films, Abstracts and Credits

 

Radio Programs

 

List of Programs and Abstracts

 

 

ACADEMIC TEACHING AND RESEARCH

 

Chair of Film Studies, Haifa University

 

Elements of Cinematic Expression

Cinematic Narratology

Multidisciplinary Program in the Arts, Tel-Aviv University

 

Postmodernistic Esthetics in Cinema

Representation of Interior Life in Cinema and Literature

Stream of Consciousness in Cinema and in Literature

 

Department of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University

 

Classical Film Theory - Text Analysis
Film Analysis
Elements of Cinematic Expression
Cinematic Syntax
The French New Wave
Film Noir
Alain Resnais and the Stream of Consciousness in the Cinema
The Stream of Consciousness in Films of Bunuel, Bergman and Polanski

 

Film Division, Columbia University, New York

 

History of the Motion Picture (as assistant to Andrew Sarris)

Free Cinema in Britain.

 

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