Peter Brunette is director of the program in film studies and the film studies minor at Wake Forest. His primary interests are film history and theory and visual studies, and he holds a joint appointment in the departments of Art and Communication. He has written or edited seven books on film (see below). Besides these, he is general editor of a filmmaker interview series at the University Press of Mississippi; over sixty books have already been published in this series. During the last ten years, he has been a regular film critic for Film.com, indieWIRE.com , Screen International, and most recently, he reviews exclusively for The Hollywood Reporter at the major film festivals in Cannes, Toronto, and Berlin. He did the soundtrack commentary for Antonioni's Blow-up, and has recently served as a co-commentator on the Criterion Collection's DVDs of Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and Fellini's Amarcord and written essays for two other Criterion DVDs. His journalistic articles have appeared frequently over the last twenty years in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section and The Boston Globe, as well as a host of other journals and newspapers. He is artistic director of the Cinema Club, which has branches in ten cities. His book on the Austrian director Michael Haneke is in press and will be published by the University of Illinois Press in February 2010. He is currently at work on a book on Italian director Luchino Visconti and is under contract to edit A Companion to Italian Cinema for Blackwell Publishing..