Chris Lippard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor ; Director of Graduate StudiesFilm History & Studies
Phone: (801) 585-9358
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Chris Lippard earned his B.A. at the University of Sheffield, England, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He is the editor of By Angels Driven: The Cinema of Derek Jarman, published by Flicks/Praegar in 1996, and has published work on Jorge Sanjines, Abbas Kiarostami and F.W. Murnau. He specializes in Middle Eastern, African, South American and British; film as dream and memory, and representations of urban space.
Chris teaches Introduction to Film, Film History, and World Cinema courses. He is currently working on a Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema.
For a copy of a recent talk on the film Crash—Haggis’s, not Cronenberg’s—click here
Chris is a member of the Inter-American Research Group based at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Westphalia, Germany.