Vlad Dima
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2010
Associate Professor
262-4074
636 Van Hise Hall
PRIMARY LANGUAGE
French
SPECIALTIES
French New Wave cinema, Francophone cinemas, film theory, Hitchcock, Tarantino/American auteur cinema, television studies, Quebec novel, theater of the absurd, zombies.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- “The Beautiful Skin: Football, Fantasy, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa,” forthcoming monograph, Michigan State University Press, fall 2020.
- “Waiting for (African) Cinema: Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Quest,” African Studies Review, Volume 58, No. 3, July 2018, 13-30.
- “The Beautiful Fantasy: Imaginary Representations of Football in West-African Cinema,” Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French (eds. Thibaut Schilt and Michael Gott), Edinburgh University Press, February 2018, 155-174.
- Sonic Space in Djibril-Diop Mambety’s Films, Indiana University Press, 2017.
- “Cinepoetic Violence: the Dismemberment of Language in Leila Sebbar’s Une femme à la fenêtre,” CELAAN: Revue du Centre d’Etudes des Littératures et des Arts d’Afrique du Nord, Volume 13, Nos. 2 & 3, Fall 2016, 9-21.
- “The Sonorous Void: Acoustic Stages and Sound Play in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros,” Scene, June 2016, Volume 4, Issue 1, 77-89.
- “The Judas Effect: Betrayal in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless,”Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Volume 40, No. 1, Spring 2016, 25 p.