prof.dr. P.P.R.W. (Patricia) Pisters
Bio:
Patricia Pisters is professor of Film Studies at the department of Media Studies and coordinator of the bachelor and master training programmes of this department. She studied English, French and Film Studies in Nijmegen, Paris and Amsterdam . In 1993 she started to work as guest lecturer at the department of Film- and Television Studies of the University of Amsterdam. In 1998 she defendedher PhD-thesis From Eye to Brain on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and its significance for film theory. She has been a contributing editor to film magazine Skrien, a collaborator of the International Film Festival Rotterdam and advisor of the Dutch Fund for Cultural Broadcast Productions. She is member of the advisory board of DDG (Dutch Directors Guild).
Teaching and research interests include questions related to multiculturalism, interculturality and the media, mainly looking at North African cinema and Arab media. Within the research institute ASCA (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis) this is represented in the research project ‘Transnational Media’. Another research area relates to questions on the nature of perception, the ontology of the image and the idea of the ‘brain as screen’. In the ASCA project ‘The Rhizotorium’ these questions form the basis for collaboration between screen studies, (Deleuzian) philosophy and neuroscience.
her webpage is here
February 10th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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