Draft:Noa Steimatsky
Noa Steimatsky is an American film academic.
Biography
[edit]Noa Steimatsky was the daughter of painter Avigdor Stematsky and Tamar Gotlieb-Steimatsky.[1] She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (where she got her BA in English Literature in 1984) and New York University (where she got her MA in English Literature in 1986 and PhD in Cinema Studies in 1995);[2] her dissertation, The Earth Figured: an Exploration of Landscape in the Italian Cinema (1995), was supervised by Richard Allen.[3]
After working as an adjunct professor at the Tisch School of the Arts and School of Visual Arts, she moved to the Yale University Department of the History of Art as a visiting assistant professor in 1997, and was promoted to assistant professor in 1998 and associate professor in 2005.[2] She moved to the University of Chicago Department of Cinema and Media Studies in 2008, remaining associate professor there until 2015.[2] She later served as a visiting professor afterwards intermittently, including at the University of California, Berkeley, Sarah Lawrence College, and NYU.[2]
In 2005, she was a American Academy in Rome Fellow in Modern Italian Studies.[4] In 2008, she published the book Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema.[5] In 2017, she published The Face on Film, a book on the role of the human face in film history and theory;[6] she won the 2018 Honorable Mention for the Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award and the 2018 Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book for the book.[7][8] She was awarded an ACLS Fellowship in 2017 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, both for academic projects on the history of the Italian studio Cinecittà.[9][5]
Steimatsky lives in New York City.[5] Her husband, Paolo Barlera,[10] is a vice-consul at the Consulate-General of Italy, Sydney.[11]
Works
[edit]- Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema (2008)[12][13]
- The Face on Film (2017)[14][15][16]
References
[edit]- ^ Steimatsky, Noa (1995). The Earth figured: An exploration of landscapes in Italian cinema (PhD thesis). New York University. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ a b c d Steimatsky, Noa. "Abridged Curriculum Vitæ" (PDF). noasteimatsky.com. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "Steimatsky, Noa". Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "Rome Prize Winners 2004-2005" (PDF). Society of Fellows News. American Academy in Rome: 15. 2004.
- ^ a b c "Noa Steimatsky". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "The Face on Film". Oxford University Press. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "Premio Limina 2018". Consulta Universitaria del Cinema (in Italian). March 4, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "2018 SCMS Awards". Society For Cinema and Media Studies. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ "Noa Steimatsky". American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ Besserman, Lawrence (2006). "Imitatio Christi in the Later Middle Ages and in Contemporary Film: Three Paradigms". Florilegium. 23 (1): 223–249. ISSN 2369-7180.
- ^ "Foreign embassies and consulates in Australia". Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ Baetans, Jan (2008). "Italian Location: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema". Leonardo On-Line. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ Duncan, D. (December 1, 2009). "Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943 * Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema". Screen. 50 (4): 465–468. doi:10.1093/screen/hjp036. ISSN 0036-9543 – via Oxford University Press.
- ^ Rowin, Michael Joshua (2017). Steimatsky, Noa (ed.). "Head On: The Meaning of Miens". Film Comment. 53 (1): 92–93. ISSN 0015-119X – via JSTOR.
- ^ Martin, Adrian (2020). "Review of The Face on Film". Cinéaste. 45 (2): 71–72. ISSN 0009-7004 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Stewart, Tyson (July 26, 2004). "Face, Flesh, Film: The Face on Film by Noa Steimatsky". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved August 20, 2024.