Sandra Chang-Kredl, PhD

Education

PhD (New York University)

Areas of expertise

Film theory and criticism, Japanese cinema, experimental cinema, ethnographic film, women and film, cultural studies, American cinema, melodrama, Walter Benjamin.

Graduate courses

Courses Taught:

Studies in Film Acting and Performance

 Film History II !945 to 1980 (BFA program)

Cinema and the City

Experimental Ethnography (Concordia MFAprogramme)

Methods in Film Studies (MA programme)

Walter Benjamin (PhD in Humanities)

Walter Benjamin (PhD in Film and MovingImage Studies)

Film Melodrama

Archiveology (PhD in Film and Moving ImageStudies)

American Cinema of the 1950s

Barbara Stanwyck: Gender and Genre in Hollywood (PhD)

Archival Film Practices (MFA and MA)

Books

• Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)
• Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited (New York: Continuum, 2011)
• The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity (Duke University Press, 2008) Translated into Chinese by Fudan University Press.
• Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1999)
• Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure and New Wave Cinemas (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985)