Dr. Philip Rosen

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Biography

Philip Rosen works in the fields of film theory and history, with special attention to questions of culture, ideology, historiography, temporality, and the contexts of various national cinemas. He has written extensively on television and digital media. His current research focuses on concepts of nationality, globality, state violence in film media, and materialism in the history of film theory. Rosen's notable work includes 'Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory', which relates to contemporary film problems and cultural theory, arguing for a special relationship between conceptions of film and history. He has compiled standard anthologies of structuralist and poststructuralist film theory, including 'Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology', and has published articles addressing a wide variety of films and issues in film media studies. His funded research is not specified, but he has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and served as a faculty fellow at the Pembroke Center. Rosen is also involved in teaching courses related to modern culture media and contemporary film theory at Brown University.

Research Interests

Courses

Text/Media/Culture: Theories of Modern Culture Media Aesthetics of Political Cinema: Montage and Political Modernism Contemporary Film Theory Cultural Criticism and Marxist Theory Cinema, State Violence, and Globalization

Requirements for Brown University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GRE General
TOEFL
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Undergraduate degree in Economics or related field
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Specialization Notes

Department: Department of Economics