简介

Inez Hedges is a professor of French, German, and cinema studies and the founder of the Program in Cinema Studies at Northeastern University. She teaches courses in film theory, German literature and film, French film, and the senior seminar in cinema studies. Her graduate film courses have explored such topics as surrealism, film as historical memory, the myth of Faust, and film noir. She was appointed as Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies for 2006-09. Her most recent book, Framing Faust: 20th Century Cultural Struggles, traces the role of the Faust myth in some of the most important historical events and traumas of the past century: the rise of Nazism and the Cold War, but also the birth of feminism and of cinema, and the experiments of socialism and the avant-garde. Her previous books, Breaking the Frame (1991) and Languages of Revolt (1983), explored questions of film and philosophy while discussing art, literature and film. Her current research centers on cinematic, literary, and artistic representations of the deportation of more than 76,000 Jews in German-occupied France from 1940-44.