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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)

Current Courses

Future Courses

  • Surrealism in Cinema
    NFLM 3436 - Spring 2027

Past Courses

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