Subject Areas: Film Studies and Visual Theory
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 theory. 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. Most recently, he has completed a book on
the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai, which will be published by
the University of Illinois Press in early 2005.