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Tom Gunning is an Emeritus faculty member specializing in film style interpretation and film history. He has published around a hundred articles focusing on early cinema, exploring its origins and its relationship with modernity, photography, stage melodrama, and cultural concerns. His key work, 'D.W. Griffith: Origins of American Narrative Film,' examines how early film style interacted with new economic structures in the American film industry. Gunning's forthcoming book on Fritz Lang discusses the systematic nature of the director’s oeuvre and interpretation processes. He has written extensively about avant-garde film and Hollywood cinema, focusing on the interplay between genre, technology, and film culture. His work frequently addresses the historical factors affecting exhibition and the spectator's experience, highlighting recurrent themes in film history. Gunning was celebrated in a recent event, 'Attractions of the Moving Image,' with presentations by numerous scholars and filmmakers, which marked significant contributions to the field of moving images and historical aesthetic inquiries.
Department of Philosophy