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; nearly sixty books have already been published in this series. Over the last ten years, he has been a regular film critic for Film.com, indieWIRE.com , Screen International, and most recently, 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 in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section and The Boston Globe, as well as a host of other journals and newspapers, and he is artistic director of the Key Sunday Cinema Club, which has branches in ten cities. He is currently at work on books on Italian director Luchino Visconti and Austrian director Michael Haneke. |
Roberto Rossellini (Oxford Univ. Press 1987; Univ. of California Press, 1996)
Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory (with David Wills, Princeton Univ. Press, 1989)
Shoot the Piano Player (edited volume, Rutgers Univ. Press, 1993)
Deconstruction and the Visual Arts: Art, Media, Architecture (ed. with David Wills; Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994)
The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998)
Martin Scorsese: Interviews (edited volume, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1999)
Wong Kar-wai (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2005)