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James Lastra specializes in American film and has published extensively on sound film, particularly in relation to the unfolding history of modernity and aesthetics of high vernacular modernisms. His sound interests include the material history of human sensory experience and the conditions surrounding the emergence and normalization of representational technologies. His latest research addresses theories of asynchronous sound in film and Wagnerian aesthetics in modern sound design for American cinema. Lastra has specific research interests in Surrealism in Europe and the United States, silent film comedy, American experimental film, and the works of filmmaker Luis Buñuel. As a member of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, he approaches American cinema as part of a global system of cultural production and exchange.
Department of Philosophy