David Sterritt

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David Sterritt
Film critic, author, scholar
PartnerMikita Brottman
Jean-Luc Godard Interviews; one of Sterritt's most notable works[1]

David Sterritt (born September 11, 1944) is a

film critic, author and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor,[1] where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater and music. He has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University and is the Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics.[2]

Sterritt has also written influentially on the film and culture of the 1950s, the Beat Generation, French New Wave cinema, Robert Altman, Spike Lee and Terry Gilliam, and the TV series, The Honeymooners.

Sterritt participated in the

Out 1: Spectre, A Page of Madness, Vagabond, Vertigo, Wavelength, and A Woman Under the Influence.[3]

Career

Sterritt began his career as a film critic at Boston After Dark (now the

National Public Radio. From 1969 to 1973, he was the Boston Theater Critic for Variety, and he sat on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival from 1988 to 1992. Between 1994 and 2002 he was Senior Critic at the National Critics Institute of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and he served as the video critic for Islands magazine from 2000-2003. From 2005-2007 he was Programming Associate at the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y. He is a member of the National Editorial Advisory Group of Tikkun, is the Editor in Chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and the Chief Book Critic for Film Quarterly
.

Sterritt's writings on film and film culture have also appeared in

Alain Renais,[6] and Beliefnet in an article about Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds.[7]

In 1998 Sterritt edited a book of interviews and conversations with Godard by critics, scholars, and journalists, from the 1960s to the 1990s, illuminating the filmmaker's life, work, and ideas.[1]

Sterritt is particularly well known for his careful considerations of films with a spiritual connection, such as

anti-Semitism. This will feed those germs."[9]

From 1999-2015 Sterritt was the Co-Chair, with

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and Professor Emeritus of Theater and Film at Long Island University,[1]
where he taught from 1993 to 2005, obtaining tenure in 1998.

Personal life

Sterritt is the partner of psychoanalyst, author and cultural critic Mikita Brottman. They wrote a review together of Gaspar Noé's 2002 French film Irréversible for Film Quarterly.[10]

Books

  • Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader
  • Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the 50s, and Film
  • Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility
  • The Honeymooners (TV Milestones)
  • The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Cambridge Film Classics)
  • The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible (Cambridge Film Classics)
  • Jean-Luc Godard Interviews (University Press of Mississippi)

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9781578060801
    . Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  2. ^ Kay, Jeremy (September 23, 2009). "National Society Of Film Critics to announce winners on January 3, 2010". Screen Daily. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
  3. ^ "The Greatest Films of All Time 2012: David Sterritt". BFI. 2012. Archived from the original on August 18, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
  4. Moviemaker. Archived from the original
    on October 18, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  5. ^ Sterritt, David (2000). "Taste of Kierostami". Senses of Cinema. Archived from the original on February 8, 2007.
  6. Cinéaste. Archived from the original
    on September 28, 2009. Retrieved September 28, 2009.
  7. ^ Sterritt, David (July 2005). "Playing on Our Fears". Beliefnet.
  8. ^ a b O’Brien, Catherine (2018). Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 127–151. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
  9. ^ a b Blitzer, Wolf (February 25, 2004). "Viewers react passionately to Gibson's film". CNN. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
  10. ^ Brottman, Mikita; Sterritt, David. "Review: Irréversible". Film Quarterly. Archived from the original on June 4, 2009. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
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