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  • Rebecca Alvin

    Part-time Associate Teaching Professor

    Email
    alvinr@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Rebecca Alvin

    Profile

    Independent filmmaker, teacher, writer, and curator; has been making films and videos for over 25 years; her documentaries have been shown around the world, including at the Pompidou Center and at the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston; Editor of Provincetown Magazine; Founder/Programmer, Cape Cod Festival of Arab & Middle Eastern Cinema; Freelance writer with work published in Cineaste, Moviemaker, the Journal of Film and Video, and other periodicals.

    Degrees Held

    M.A. Media Studies (Digital Design), The New School

    B.S. Mass Communications/Film, Emerson College

    Recent Publications

    Moviemaker Magazine The F Word: Is Family-Friendly Indie-Friendly (November 2014)   Provincetown Magazine   Transformative Television: An interview with transgender consultant on Amazon's Transparent Rhys Ernst (October 16, 2014)   Not So Strange: Ira Sachs on his new film Love is Strange (September 25, 2014)   Not Your Average Ibsen: Director Jonathan Demme on Wallace Shawn’s A Master Builder (June 19, 2014)   Defying Expectations [Interview with David Cronenberg] (June 19, 2014)   It's Complicated: Traversing the Transgender Image (June 19, 2014)     Cineaste Magazine The Sound of Silents An interview with Academy Award winning director Michel Hazanavicious (Spring 2012)   Cinemas of the Future (Summer 2007)

    Research Interests

    Film exhibition/microcinema and the future of the arts in public spaces; Surrealism in both production and creative philosophy; Children's media — film in particular; Documentary film theory, production, and history; Arab cinema; Transgender issues in the media; and the potential of virtual reality cinema.

    Future Courses

    Introduction to Media Studies
    NCOM 3000, Fall 2026

    Past Courses

    Introduction to Media Studies
    NCOM 3000, Fall 2025

    Surrealism in Cinema
    NFLM 3436, Spring 2026

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