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Peter Rist served as Chair of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema for eight of the last sixteen years. He primarily teaches in the undergraduate film studies program, covering numerous national cinema and film aesthetics courses. Rist is currently writing the Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema and contributes articles regularly to the online journal of film studies, Offscreen. He has edited books on Canadian and South American cinema and has written articles on Third Cinema, experimental film, installation, and performance art. His PhD thesis explored the style of early films by John Ford. Rist has spent five years completing book chapters on Korean, Chinese, Hong Kong, and African cinema, including pieces on action film directors like King Hu and Johnnie To. His essay 'Presence (and Absence): Landscape in Silent East Asian Films' further showcases his academic contributions.
Administered by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema; focuses on cinematic arts practice and research-creation.