Assistant Professor Matthew Solomon

M.A. and Ph.D: University of California, Los Angeles; Department of Film and Television

Center for the Arts (1P) room 229
Telephone: (718) 982-2548

Matthew Solomon teaches courses in film aesthetics, history, theory, authorship, genres, and research methods. He is currently serving as coordinator of the undergraduate cinema studies program and the graduate cinema and media studies program. Professor Solomon has published essays in the journals Quarterly Review of Film and Video (1995), Cinema & Cie (2003), Theatre Journal (2006, in press), Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film (2007, in press), and the following anthologies: Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), Authorship and Film (Routledge, 2003), The Five Senses of Cinema (Forum Editrice, 2005), The Films of Tod Browning (Black Dog Publishing, 2006), and American Cinema: Themes and Variations, vol. 1 (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). He has presented his research at a number of different international conferences, curated a film series for Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, and is Book Review Editor for Film for Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film. His research focuses on “intermediality”: the historical relationships between cinema and various nineteenth- and twentieth-century media forms. Most recently, he has been engaged with questions about the origins of moving pictures and early cinema’s place within cultures of performance and popular fiction. Professor Solomon is completing a book, Disappearing Tricks: Silent Cinema, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century, under contract with the University of Illinois Press.