Matthew Solomon

Associate Professor
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 currently serves as coordinator of the undergraduate cinema studies program and of the graduate cinema and media studies program. His research focuses on "intermediality": the historical relationships between cinema and various nineteenth- and twentieth-century media forms. Professor Solomon has published essays in the journals Quarterly Review of Film and Video (1995), Cinema & Cie (2003), Theatre Journal (2006), Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film (2007), KINtop Schriften (2008), as well as chapters in 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), Early Cinema and the "National" (John Libbey, 2008), Performing Magic on the Western Stage: From the 18th Century to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), American Cinema, 1890-1909: Themes and Variations (Rutgers University Press, 2009), and Screen Stars of the 1950s (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). He has presented his work at a number of different international conferences and in 2006 curated the film series "Magic in Film" for the Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Le Giornate del Cinema Muto). He is also Book Review Editor for Film for the journal Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film. Professor Solomon is author of Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2010, in press) and the editor of Méliès's Trip to the Moon: Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination (State University of New York Press, forthcoming).