Noa Steimatsky teaches Film Studies under the auspices of the History of Art Department. She holds an M.A. degree in English and a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University. She teaches core Film Studies courses such as Film Theory and Aesthetics, and Close Analysis. Her other areas of research and teaching include realism, surrealism, landscapes/locations, the face, Italian and French cinemas, tropes and figures in film and theory, the musical film. She has lectured and published articles in these areas. Her book Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Her on-going project, “On the Face of Film,” won a Getty research fellowship, and she has also been awarded the American Academy in Rome Prize for her work on “Transitional Spaces in Post-War Cinemas.”

Selected Publications
Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema, forthcoming Spring 2008 from the University of Minnesota Press.

“What the Clerk Saw: Anthropometrics of The Wrong Man.”  Forthcoming in Framework Journal of Cinema and Media, Fall 2007.  Italian version forthcoming in Dentro l’analisi: soggetto, senso, emozioni (Turin, 2008)

“Refugee Camp Cinecittà, 1944-1950.”  Forthcoming in OCTOBER magazine, special issue on post-war Italy, Winter 2007-2008.

“Visuality and Viscera.”  The Five Senses of Cinema, ed. Leonardo Quaresima. Udine, It.: Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi sul Cinema, 2005.

“From the Air: A Genealogy of Antonioni’s Modernism.”  Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson, eds. Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey.  Amsterdam University Press, 2003.  Italian version published in: “Dall’aere: una genealogia del modernismo di Antonioni.”  Il Nuovo Spettatore 7 (2003).

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