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SVA BFA Film
FACULTY: Paul Cronin

Historian/Filmmaker


BA, University of Manchester; MS, London School of Economics; M.Phil, PhD, Columbia University

Books include:
Werner Herzog’s A Guide for the Perplexed; Alexander Mackendrick’s On Film-Making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director; Lessons with Kiarostami

Films include:
In the Beginning was the Image: Conversations with Peter Whitehead; Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16; Look Out, Haskell, It’s Real: The Making of ‘Medium Cool’

History of Film I

Film History Genre

The Video Essay

Activist Film