Research Areas

The visual arts, particularly film and painting.

Selected Publications

Rohmer’s Salon, Film Quarterly Fall 2009

Forms of Being Cinema, Aesthetics,Subjectivity. BFI 2004

Les Secrets du Caravage edition EPEL Paris (Dec 2002). Reviewed in Le Monde January 2003; Le Nouvelle Observateur January 2003, Beaux Arts magazine April 2003.

Caravaggio: Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio (with L. Bersani, British Film Institute, 1999)

Caravaggio’s Secrets (with L. Bersani, MIT Press, 1998)

Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko and Resnais (with L. Bersani, Harvard University Press, l993)

The Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture (with L. Bersani, Schocken Books, l985)