James Hoberman
A film critic at the Village Voice for over 30 years, J. Hoberman is the author, co-author, or editor of over a dozen books including Midnight Movies, Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, and the “Found Illusions” trilogy (An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War, The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties, and Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan), completed last year. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and has taught at New York University, The Cooper Union, and Harvard University as well as Columbia. He has served on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival and organized shows at the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of the Moving Image, Jewish Museum, and Whitney Museum; he publishes frequently in Artforum, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times and elsewhere.
Adjunct Film Professor and alumnus J. Hoberman '81 wrote Duck Soup (Bloomsbury, 2021) a new book on the Marx Brothers' famous movie of the same name.
Adjunct Professor J. Hoberman published his new book, 'Make My Day: American Movies in the Age of Reagan', through The New Press in July.
Adjunct Film Professor and Alumnus J. Hoberman '81 programmed and annotated the film series, Everything Was Now: "1968" Circa 1968, now screening at The Metrograph in New York City. The series will run through September 18th.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Film alum J. Hoberman '81 explores the rich cultural landscape of 1960s New York City in his upcoming book Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde. Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, and Radical Pop.