Subject Areas: Film Studies and Visual Studies
Office: 108 Scales
FAC Phone: 336-758-3892
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Peter Brunette directs the program in film studies and the film studies minor at Wake Forest . His primary interests are film history and visual studies. He has written or edited seven books on film, including Roberto Rossellini, the definitive study in English of this director's films (Oxford University Press, 1987; republished University of California Press, 1996); Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory (Princeton University Press, 1990; co-authored with David Wills); a co-edited book (with David Wills) on visual theory published by Cambridge University Press in 1994, entitled Deconstruction and the Visual Arts: Art, Media, Architecture; and a book on François Truffaut's film Shoot the Piano Player (Rutgers, 1993). In the fall of 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni and, in January 1999, his edited book, Martin Scorsese: Interviews, was published by the University of Mississippi Press. His most recent book, on the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, was published by the University of Illinois Press in spring 2005. He is also general editor of the Mississippi interview series; over forty books have already been published in this series, and twenty more are contracted for.