Reni Celeste

Publications

"The Frozen Screen: Levinas and the Action Film," Film-Philosophy Journal, V.11, n.2, August (2007): 15-36.
http://www.film-philosophy.com/2007v11n2/celeste.pdf

"Screen Idols: The Tragedy of Falling Stars," Journal of Popular Film and Television, V.33, n.1, Spring (2005): 29-38.
http://www.cinemonkeys.com/reni/screenidols.html

"The Sound of Silence: Film Music and Lament," Quarterly Review of Film and Video,V.22, n.2, Spring (2005): 113-123.
http://www.cinemonkeys.com/reni/silence.html

"In the Web with David Cronenberg: Spider and the New Auteurism," Cineaction, 65 (2005): 2-5.
http://www.cinemonkeys.com/reni/spider.html

"Decalogue: Poland's Cinema of Collision," Studies in European Cinema, 1: 3 (2004): 175-184.
http://www.cinemonkeys.com/reni/decalogue.html

Recent Reviews: Talk To Her, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Scope: Online Film Journal, May 2004,
http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/filmreview.php?issue=nov2004&id=674&section=film_rev
http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/filmreview.php?issue=may2004&id=655&section=film_rev

"Love and Catastrophe: Filming the Sublime in Hiroshima mon amour," Studies in French Cinema, 3: 3 (2003): 173-184.
http://www.cinemonkeys.com/reni/hiroshima.html
http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol9-2005/n38celeste.html

The Tragic Screen: Cinema at the Limits of Philosophy, Diss., University of Rochester, 2003.

“Lost Highway: Unveiling Cinema’s Yellow Brick Road,” Cineaction, 43 (1997): 36-43.
http://www.cinemonkeys.com/reni/highway.html

Multiple film reviews in Magill’s Cinema Annual, Detroit: Gale Research, 1994-1999.

Multiple film and video reviews in Motion Picture Guide, New York: Cinebooks, 1994-1999, now included in the TVGuide.com database.

Editor, Time and the Work, In_Visible Culture, electronic journal, University of Rochester, 3, Fall (2000).
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/issue3/issue3.htm

Conferences and Lectures

"The Head in the Box: Barton Fink and the Vast Interior," Structuring the Subjective Screen, Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Atlanta, GA, March 3, 2004.

"The Tragic Auteur: David Cronenberg, the Double, and the Spider," New Approaches to Auteur Theory, Modern Language Assn. conference, San Diego, CA, Dec. 30, 2003.

"Urban Disaster and the Everyday," Constructing the City, The Celluloid and Cyber City, Department of History of Art, Graduate Student Conference, Yale, New Haven, CT, Nov. 8, 2003.

National Research Council, conference of Ford Fellows, San Juan, PR, Oct. 16-19, 2003.

National Research Council, conference of Ford Fellows, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 2-6, 2002.

Guest Lecturer on Film and Feminism, Introduction to Visual and Cultural Studies, Art and Art History, Rochester, NY, Mar. 1999.

“Decalogue: Cinema as Collision,” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, CA, Apr. 5, 1998.

Education

Teaching Positions

Visiting Assistant Professor, Film Studies Program, Connecticut College, New London, CT.
Action, Speed, Metropolis, Spring 2004

Adjunct Professor, Media Studies Program, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.
Avant-garde and Experimental Film and Video, Fall 2003

Lecturer, Humanities Core Program, University of Chicago, IL.
Media Aesthetics, Spring 2002

Lecturer, Media Studies Program, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY.
Introduction to Film Interpretation, Fall 2000
Film History 1, Fall 2000

Instructor, Film Studies Program, University of Rochester, NY.
Introduction to the Art of Film, Summer 2000.

Teaching Assistant, Film Studies Program, University of Rochester, NY.
Introduction to the Art of Film, Fall 1999. (Prof. David Rodowick)

Teaching Assistant, Art and Art History, University of Rochester, NY.
Critical Theory in Art History, Spring 1999 (Prof. Michael Ann Holly)

Teaching Assistant, Art and Art History, University of Rochester, NY.
Fakes: Connoisseurship and Deception, Fall 1998. (Prof. Andrei Molutiu)

Fellowships and Awards

Professional Affiliations