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Author Michael Cramer

Michael Cramer

Michael Cramer holds a PhD from Yale University's combined program in Comparative Literature and Film Studies. He has taught film at Yale, Princeton, and SUNY-Purchase College and will join the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College this fall. His book Utopian Television, which deals with the television works of Godard, Rossellini, and Peter Watkins, is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press.

The New Babylon

1929: The New Babylon (Grigori Kozinstev and Leonid Trauberg)

Michael Cramer
December 2017
100 Years of Soviet Cinema
“We’ll Come Back to Paris!”: The New Babylon Novyy Vavilon (The New Babylon, 1929) is the fifth feature film produced by the FEKS (“Factory of the Eccentric Actor”) group, founded in 1922 by Grigori Kozintsev...
Smorgasbord

Smorgasbord (1983)

Michael Cramer
July 2016
Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director
“Au revoir, Dummy!”: A Smorgasbord of Suffering It seems fitting that Jerry’s Lewis’ final film as director, Smorgasbord (1983, released on home video under the title Cracking Up), should begin with a prolonge...
Jean-Luc Godard True History of Cinema and Television book review

“…what I was seeking in my history of cinema was to be less alone”: Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television by Jean-Luc Godard (trans. and ed. Timothy Barnard)

Michael Cramer
June 2015
Book Reviews
Caboose Books’ edition of Jean-Luc Godard’s Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television, translated and edited by Timothy Barnard, collects the lectures that Godard delivered between April and Octob...

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