Author Dimitrios Latsis

Dimitrios Latsis

Dimitrios Latsis is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of Iowa. He holds a BA in Film/Video from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in Cinema Studies from King's College London. His interests lie in the rapport of philosophical thought with film (especially phenomenology), of film with other arts and in visual perception. He is currently working on a dissertation concerning the role of natural landscape in American Cinema before WWII for which he has been awarded a CIC-Smithsonian predoctoral fellowship to the Smithonian Museum of American Art and the National Museum of American History. His work has been published in Refractory (U Melbourne), Intermedialités (U Montreal), The Irish Review and is forthcoming in October (MIT Press), Amerikastudien/American Studies and The British Journal of Phenomenology. He has presented work in numerous conferences in the fields of Film Studies (SCMS), American Studies (ASA) and Art History (CAA).

Angela Dalle Vacche (ed), Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls?

Dimitrios Latsis

March 2013

Book Reviews

Film, Art, New Media A salient characteristic of theoretical discourse in any field is its cyclical nature. Debates of one generation of theorists are mirrored in their time’s scholarship, then temporarily ...