Author David A. Gerstner

David A. Gerstner

David A. Gerstner is Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Media Culture at the City University of New York. His most recent book is Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship (Wayne State University Press). He recently completed a short film, Between Men, A Historical Fantasy.

In Search of Lost Time: An Interview with Christophe Honoré

David A. Gerstner

January 2023

Interviews

“It is not enough for a painter like Cézanne, an artist, or a philosopher, to create or express an idea,” writes Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The artist and philosopher, he continues, “must also awaken the experience...

Penetrating Epstein: Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations by Sarah Keller and Jason N. Paul (eds.), and Une vie pour le cinéma: Jean Epstein by Joël Daire

David A. Gerstner

March 2015

Book Reviews

The Jean Epstein renaissance currently underway has yielded two significant books from both sides of the Atlantic: French historian Joël Daire’s Une vie pour le cinéma: Jean Epstein and the antholo...