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Julien Lapointe

Graduate Professor (Film Studies), Cinema

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Julien Lapointe
Office: S-FB 334  
Faubourg Building,
1250 Guy
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext.
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Julien is a PhD candidate at Concordia University. He has recently presented his work at the Screen Studies Conference (2014), the Udine International Film Conference (2015), FiSAC (2009, 2010) and equally the Arthemis Joint Study Days (2014). He has written for Film Quarterly, CinéAction!, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Synoptique and has forthcoming an article in the online bilingual peer-review journal Mise au Point and a chapter in an anthology on world-building, to be published by Amsterdam University Press. Additionally, he has a chapter in The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard (WLU Press, 2014). He has taught Film Studies at undergraduate level twice at Concordia, as well as Film History at the City University of New York (CUNY). He also served as a guest lecturer at Université de Montréal for an M.A. seminar. Before coming to Concordia, he obtained an M.A. in Journalism from New York University, around which time he completed internships at Artforum, New York University Press and The Nation, as well as writing for a range of journalistic publications on film and graphic novels, and reporting on Sundance Film Festival. His B.A., at McGill University, was in Cultural Studies.

Julien's research interests include philosophy of science, philosophy of aesthetics/art, philosophy of language, style-theory, art historiography, narratology and cognitivism/interpretive theory. His doctoral thesis, for which he received funding from the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), proposes a theory of representation in cinema that defines the relationship between representation, affect and aesthetics, drawing on the methodologies of analytic philosophy/logic (Frege, Russell), logical positivism (Carnap) and its heirs (Goodman, Chomsky), while also addressing the concerns of classical film theory (Arnheim, Bazin), the Opojaz (Shklovsky) and more recent cognitive film theory and/or theories of affect/emotion (Carroll, Grodal, Elster, de Sousa). He hopes eventually to pursue a post-doc on representations of Sherlock Holmes and more universally detective fiction, with a particular focus on theories of rationality, belief, world-building and the cultural politics of cocaine-addiction and depression.

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