J. Hoberman

J. Hoberman
Hoberman in 2012
Born	James Lewis Hoberman (1949-03-14) March 14, 1949 (age 75) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Film critic journalist author academic
Education	Binghamton University (BA) Columbia University (MFA)
Period	1977–present
Subject	Film
Children	2
Website
j-hoberman.com

James Lewis Hoberman (born March 14, 1949)

Hoberman and his wife, a social worker, married in 1974. They have two daughters.[2] He is an atheist.^[2]

Career

After completing his MFA Hoberman worked for The Village Voice as under Andrew Sarris. Hoberman specialized in writing about experimental film for the weekly paper: his first published review (in 1977) was of David Lynch's seminal debut film Eraserhead. In the mid-1970s, Hoberman contributed text articles to the underground comix anthology Arcade, edited by Art Spiegelman and Bill Griffith.^[10] From 2009 to 2012, Hoberman was the senior film editor at the Village Voice, where he was also an active leader in the staff union.^{[citation needed]}

Since 1990, Hoberman has taught cinema history at Cooper Union. He has also lectured on film at Harvard and New York University. In addition to his academic and professional career, Hoberman is the author of several important books on cinema, including a collaboration with fellow film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, entitled Midnight Movies, published in 1983.

At the 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival, Hoberman was honored with the prestigious Mel Novikoff Award, an annual award "bestowed on an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the filmgoing public's knowledge and appreciation of world cinema."^[11] Hoberman appears in the 2009 documentary film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, recalling his first movie memory, going with his mother to see Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show On Earth (1952), and how he was mesmerized by a scene in that film that depicts a train crash.

In January 2012, the Village Voice laid off Hoberman in a move to cut costs. Hoberman said, "I have no regrets and whatever sadness I feel is outweighed by a sense of gratitude. Thirty-three years is a long time to be able to do something that you love to do, to champion things you want to champion, and to even get paid for it."^[4]

Following his tenure at the Village Voice, Hoberman has contributed articles to other publications, including

He is interviewed in the HBO documentary Spielberg to give insight into Steven Spielberg's work.

Bibliography

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Books

• Home made movies : twenty years of American 8mm & Super-8 films. New York:
  ISBN 978-0317559583
  .
• Hoberman, J.;
  ISBN 978-0060909901
  .
• Dennis Hopper: From Method to Madness. Minneapolis:
  ISBN 978-0935640274
  .
• Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Film and Other Media. Philadelphia:
  ISBN 978-0877228660
  .
• Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds.
  ISBN 978-0805241075
  .
• 42nd Street. BFI Film Classics. London:
  ISBN 978-0851703558
  .
• The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1999.
  ISBN 978-1566397674
  .
• On Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (and Other Secret-flix of Cinemaroc).
  ISBN 978-1887123525
  .
• The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties. New York:
  ISBN 978-1565849785
  .
• The Magic Hour: Film at Fin de Siècle. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2003.
  ISBN 978-1566399968
  .
• An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War. New York:
  ISBN 978-1595580054
  .
• Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?). New York:
  ISBN 978-1781681435
  .
• Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan. New York:
  ISBN 978-1595580061
  .
• Duck Soup. BFI Film Classics. London:
  ISBN 978-1839022258
  .

• Hoberman, J. (March 7–20, 2019). "The waiting rooms of history". The New York Review of Books. 66 (4): 20, 22.^[15]

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