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Jesse G. Kalin
Adjunct Professor of Film
B.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California
at Berkeley
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Jesse Kalin has been teaching film courses at Vassar since the late ’70s. His interests and professional work have been in ethical theory and aesthetics, with a special interest in film. His film interests include European cinema (Godard, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, Bergman, Wenders, Potter, Kieslowski among others), Japanese cinema (Ozu, Mizoguchi, Oshima in particular), “avant garde”/ non-narrative cinema, and science fiction. His book — Ingmar Bergman: The Geography of the Soul – For the Cambridge University Press series, Cambridge Film Classics — was published in 2004.
In 2005, Professor Kalin will teach a Senior Seminar on: Kurosawa: A Cinema of Dreamers – The course focuses on Kurosawa’s (1910-1998) contemporary films and the central motif of dreams and dreamers that threads through them, from the optimism of One Wonderful Sunday (1947) through the despair of Dodes’ka-den (1970) to the acceptance and celebration of Dreams (1990)
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