Rebecca Alvin
Part-time Associate Teaching Professor
Email
alvinr@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
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
- Introduction to Media Studies
NCOM 3000 - Fall 2026
Future Courses
- Surrealism in Cinema
NFLM 3436 - Spring 2027
Past Courses
- Surrealism in Cinema
NFLM 3436 - Spring 2026
