Biography

Rosalind's research areas include global cinemas since 1945, comparative European cinemas, and film theory, with a particular focus on issues of gender and sexuality,

Her recent publications include Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image (Columbia UP, 2011), which rethinks film aesthetics and sexual politics in international cinema, and Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories (co-edited with Karl Schoonover, OUP, 2010), which  re-conceptualises the category of 'art cinema' in the era of globalisation and 'world cinema'.

She has also written widely on international cinemas post-World War II, with a focus on how film histories and forms intersect with political histories and geopolitics. This research addresses  popular international films (for example from Italy and former Yugoslavia), art cinema (from Italy, Germany, Argentina and Hong Kong), and avant-garde movements (such as the Catalan Barcelona School and British director Derek Jarman).

Areas of teaching include European cinema, world cinema, feminist and other film theories, experimental film and art cinemas.

Recent classes include:

MA level

Global Cinemas (Autumn)

Rethinking European Cinema (Spring)

Undergraduate

Alternative Cinemas (Autumn)

Film Theory (Autumn)

Cinema and the Real (Spring)

French Cinema (Spring)

Ph.D. supervision

I have supervised or co-supervised students researching cinematic synaesthesia, Taiwanese cinema, Norwegian cinema, cryptonomy and psychoanalysis, the films of Straub-Huillet, borders in film and Marxist aesthetics. I welcome students interested in working on most areas of film or visual theory, as well as European or international cinemas.

Student Consultation

Spring 2011 Office Hours

Thursday 1-2pm

Friday 1-2pm

Galt, Rosalind (2013) The prettiness of Italian cinema. In: Popular Italian cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills. ISBN 9780230300163

Galt, Rosalind (2012) Brash... indecent... libertine: Derek Jarman's queer colours. In: Colour and the moving image: history, theory, aesthetics, archive. AFI film readers . Routledge, London . ISBN 9780415892636

Galt, Rosalind (2012) Jolie laide: Fassbinder, anti-semitism, and the Jewish image. In: A companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors . Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 485-501. ISBN 9781405191630

Galt, Rosalind (2011) On L'avventura and the picturesque. In: Antonioni: Centenary Essays. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 134-153. ISBN 978-1-84457-384-4

Galt, Rosalind (2011) Doing away with words: synaesthetic dislocations in Okinawa and Hong Kong. In: Taking place: location and the moving image. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp. 277-298. ISBN 9780816665167

Galt, Rosalind (2011) On L'Avventura and the picturesque. In: Antonioni: centenary essays. British Film Institute, London. ISBN 9781844573851

Galt, Rosalind (2011) Pretty: film and the decorative image. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 9780231153478

Galt, Rosalind (2010) Impossible narratives: the Barcelona School and the European avant-gardes. Hispanic Review, 78 (4). pp. 491-511. ISSN 0018-2176

Galt, Rosalind (2010) Perverse aesthetics: Maria Beatty, masochism and the cinematic. World Picture, 4. ISSN 1938-1700

Galt, Rosalind (2010) The functionary of mankind: Michael Haneke and Europe. In: On Michael Haneke. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, pp. 221-244. ISBN 9780814334058

Galt, Rosalind (2009) Pretty: film theory, aesthetics, and the history of the troublesome image. Camera Obscura, 24 (2). pp. 1-41. ISSN 0270-5346

Galt, Rosalind (2008) Between the ornament and the corpse: Adolf Loos and classical film theory. In: European film theory. Routledge, London, pp. 195-210. ISBN 9780415960434

Galt, Rosalind (2008) The obviousness of cinema. World Picture, 2. ISSN 1938-1700

Galt, Rosalind (2007) Missed encounters: reading, catalanitat, the Barcelona School. Screen, 48 (2). pp. 193-210. ISSN 0036-9546

Galt, Rosalind (2006) Mapping Catalonia in 1967: the Barcelona School in global context. Senses of Cinema (41). pp. 1-15. ISSN 1443-4059

Galt, Rosalind (2006) The new European cinema: redrawing the map. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 9780231137171

Galt, Rosalind (2006) "It's so cold in Alaska": evoking exploration between Bazin and 'The Forbidden Quest'. Discourse, 28 (1). pp. 53-71. ISSN 1522-5321

Galt, Rosalind (2005) Back projection: visualizing past and present Europe in 'Zentropa'. Cinema Journal, 45 (1). pp. 3-21. ISSN 0009-7101

Galt, Rosalind (2002) Italy's landscapes of loss: historical mourning and the dialectical image in 'Cinema Paradiso', 'Mediterraneo' and 'Il Postino'. Screen, 43 (2). pp. 158-173. ISSN 0036-9543