Post:	Senior Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture
Location:	Arts B B272
Email:	J.D.Rhodes@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	8966
UK:	(01273) 678966
International:	+44 1273 678966

Biography

I was born and raised in French Catholic Louisiana, took my B.A. in an Anglophilic corner of Tennessee (Sewanee), then my M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in New York City (Columbia and NYU). I was first a student of literature and later of the cinema and the visual arts. In my work I try to carry on a conversation among media and disciplines.

My book, Stupendous Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), is a reconsideration of Pasolini's cinema within the context of the urban and architectural history of Rome in the 1950s and 60s. http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/R/rhodes_stupendous.html

I am a founding co-editor of the journal World Picture: http://worldpicturejournal.com/. The journal's first three issues have focused on (respectively) jargon, the obvious, and happiness. Our next issue will take on the subject of arousal.

I am in the process of publishing a number of edited collections. A collection of essays on Michael Haneke, (co-edited with Brian Price, Wayne State University Press) and another collection on place and the moving image (co-edited with Elena Gorfinkel, University of Minnesota Press) are both in production, and I am at work on a collection of new essays on Michelangelo Antonioni, which I am co-editing with Laura Rascaroli.

Currently I am writing a BFI Film Classics volume on Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon and I am at work on a book that studies the intersection of domestic architecture and cinema. I also continue to research, write, and publish in the fields of modern Italian film, architecture, and culture, with a special emphasis on Rome.

Apart from what is obvious from the above, the variety of my research interests includes: European cinema, the history and theory of the avant-garde, queer theory and queer aesthetic production, the history and theory of architecture, postwar Hollywood cinema, and style as a form of labour.

I would be happy to supervise research in any of the above areas, or in the bayous and by-ways thereof.

 

Publications

Selected Publications 

monographs

Stupendous Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

edited collections

On Michael Haneke, co-edited with Brian Price (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, forthcoming)

The Place of the Moving Image, co-edited with Elena Gorfinkel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming)

 articles

'The Allure of the Fascist Suburb: EUR, from Rossellini to Antonioni', The Place of the Moving Image, Elena Gorfinkel and John David Rhodes, eds. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming)

'The Spectacle of Skepticism: Haneke's Long Takes', On Michael Haneke, Brian Price and John David Rhodes, eds. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, forthcoming)

'Pasolini's Exquisite Flowers: "The 'Cinema of Poetry'" as a Theory of Art Cinema', Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Practices, Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

'Collective Anxiety: Corviale, Rome, and the Legacy of '68', Log 13/14 (Fall 2008), 75-86.

'Talking Ugly', World Picture 1 (spring 2008)

'Allegory, mise-en-scène, AIDS: Interpreting Safe', in James Morrison, ed. The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven Allows. (London: Wallflower Press, 2007), 68-78.

'White Christmas, or Modernism', Modernism/Modernity 13:2 (April 2006), 292-308.

'"Concentrated Ground": Grey Gardens and the Cinema of the Domestic', Framework 47:1 (spring 2006), 83-105.

'Divorzio all'italiana', in Giorgio Bertellini, ed., The Cinema of Italy (London: Wallflower Press, 2004), 113-121.

'"Scandalous Desecration": Accattone Against the Neorealist City', Framework 45:1 (spring 2004), 7-33.

'Peggy Ahwesh', Senses of Cinema, 'Great Directors' Database (first published in vol. 29, Nov/Dec 2003)

'"Our beautiful and glorious art lives": The Rhetoric of Nationalism in Early Italian Film Periodicals', Film History 12 (Fall 2000), 308-321.