Brian Price Curriculum Vitae Home Address 33 Charles Street East #909 Toronto, Ontario M4Y 0A2 Campus Address/Undergraduate Appointment University of Toronto Mississauga Department of Visual Studies CCT Building Room 3024 Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Phone: 905-827-3757 Campus Address/Graduate Appointment University of Toronto Cinema Studies Institute Innis College, University of Toronto 2 Sussex Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J5 Email: brian.price@utoronto.ca Degrees Ph.D., New York University, Cinema Studies, 2003 M.A., New York University, Cinema Studies, 1996. B.A., University of Maryland at College Park, English, 1994. Primary Appointment Associate Professor, Department of Visual Studies, since January 2011. Associate Professor, Cinema Studies Institute, since January 2011. Member of the Graduate Faculty since January 1, 2011. Tenure granted, November 1, 2010. Previous Employment Associate Professor of Screen Studies, Oklahoma State University, Department of English. Tenured June 18, 2010. Appointed to Graduate Faculty, Fall 2005. Assistant Professor of Screen Studies, Oklahoma State University, Department of English. Fall 2005-Spring 2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Northwestern University, Department of Screen Cultures. Fall 2004 to Summer 2005. Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Program in Film & Video Studies, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. Fall 2003 to Summer 2004. Instructor, Full-Time, New York University, Expository Writing Program. Fall 1998-May 2003. Instructor of Film Studies, New York University, Department of Cinema Studies. Spring 2003, Fall 2000, Summer 1999. Instructor of Media Studies, Sacred Heart University, Department of Media Studies. Fall 2002, Fall 1998, Spring 1999. Teaching Assistant, New York University, Department of Cinema Studies. Fall 1997 to Spring 1999. Publications Books Neither God Nor Master: Robert Bresson and the Modalities of Revolt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Co-editor, with John David Rhodes, On Michael Haneke (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010). Co-editor, with Angela Dalle Vacche, of Color, The Film Reader (New York and London: Routledge, 2006). Essays A Theory of Regret, World Picture 6 (Winter 2011): http://www.worldpicturejournal.com/wp_6/price.html. Color, Melodrama, and the Problem of Interiority, Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, ed. Brigitte Peucker (London: Blackwell, forthcoming, Spring 2012): 159-180. Moving through Images, in The Place of the Moving Image, eds. John David Rhodes and Elena Gorfinkel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011): 299-316. Being with Images, Dall inizio, alla fine, eds. Enrico Biasin and Leonardo Quaresima (Udine, Italy: Forum, 2010), 323-330. Bureaucracy and Visual Style, Michael Haneke, ed. Roy Grundmann (London: Blackwell, 2010): 301-320. Art/Cinema and Cosmopolitanism Today, in Global Art Cinema, eds. Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 109-124. Pain and the Limits of Representation, expanded and reprinted in On Michael Haneke, eds. Brian Price and John David Rhodes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010): 35-50. Nine Theses on the Failures and False Start of Film Ontology, The Velvet Light Trap 64 (Fall 2009): 100-101. On Compromises, World Picture 3 (Summer 2009): www.worldpicturejournal.com. Labor Thought Theory: On Beller and Frampton, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Vol. 6: 1 (April 2008): 97-109. Film Style, Period Building, and Technological Determinism, in Le età del cinema, eds. Enrico Biasin and Leonardo Quaresima (Udine, Italy: Forum, 2008): 387-
392. Heidegger and Cinema, in European Film Theory, ed. Temenuga Trifonova (New York and London: Routledge, 2008): 108-121. The Latest Laocoon: Medium Specificity and the History of Film Theory, in Handbook of Film and Media Studies, ed. Robert Phillip Kolker (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 38-82. Writing at the Limits of Reason, World Picture 1 (Spring 2008): www.worldpicturejournal.com. Sontag, Bresson and the Unfixable, PostScript, Vol. 26, no. 2 (Winter/Spring 2007): 81-90. Color, the Formless, and Cinematic Eros, reprinted in Color, the Film Reader, eds. Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price (London and New York: Routledge, 2006): 76-87. Pain and the Limits of Representation, Framework 47.2 (Fall 2006): 22-29. Color, the Formless, and Cinematic Eros, Framework 47.1 (Spring 2006): 22-35. Their Own Secret Garden: Babette Mangolte s Les Modèles de Pickpocket, Framework, 45.1 (Spring 2004): 58-69. The End of Transcendence, The Mourning of Crime: Bresson s Hands, Studies in French Cinema 2, no. 3 (Spring 2003): 127-134. Great Directors: Richard Linklater Senses of Cinema, Issue 27 July/August 2003): www.sensesofcinema.com Great Directors: Catherine Breillat, Senses of Cinema, Issue 23, (November/December 2002) www.senseseofcinema.com. Une femme douce and the Spectrum of Revolt: Bresson s Transition to Color in the Aftermath of May 68, Framework 43, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 127-160. Plagiarizing the Plagiarist: Godard Meets the Situationists, Film Comment (November/December 1997): 66-69. Interviews Acategorical Imperatives: Sam Lipsyte in Conversation with Brian Price and Meghan Sutherland, World Picture 6 (Winter 2011): http://www.worldpicturejournal.com/wp_6/lipsyte.html Records: Ian MacKaye in Conversation with Brian Price, World Picture 5 (2011). Not a Ground, but a Horizon: An interview with Ernesto Laclau, with Meghan Sutherland, World Picture 2 (Fall 2008). On Debord, Then and Now: An Interview with Olivier Assayas, with Meghan Sutherland, World Picture 1, Fall 2007 (worldpicturejournal.com). The Art of Impurity: An Interview with Emmanuel Bourdieu, with Meghan Sutherland, World Picture 1, Fall 2007 (worldpicturejournal.com). Babette Mangolte, with Drake Stutesman, Framework 45.1 (Spring 2004). A Conversation with Ken Jacobs, with Michelle Dent, The Cultural Society, www.culturalsociety.org. Remystifying Movies: A Conversation with Christine Vachon. Co-authored with John David Rhodes. Uno Mas 12, 1996.
Invited Talks and Conference Presentations Necessary Movement, 2012 Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, Boston, March 23, 2012. Style, in Two Times, 2011 World Picture Conference on Distance, University of Toronto, October 21, 2011. The Inattentive Spectator, University of Toronto, Keynote speaker, Graduate Student Conference on Displeasure, April 7, 2011. Digital Mourning & the Songs of Solomon, Rendering the Visible Conference, Georgia State University, February 11, 2011. Images insofar as, World Picture Conference, Oklahoma State University, October 29, 2010. Color, Melodrama, and the Problem of Interiority, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, March 19, 2010. Participant on Professional Development Workshop, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, March 19, 2010. And Yet, World Picture Conference on Style, Stillwater, OK, October 24, 2009. "Being-with-Images," Film-Philosophy Conference, Dundee, Scotland, July 17, 2009. "Being-with-Images," XVI Udine International Film Studies Conference Permanent Seminar on History of Film Theories, Udine, Italy, March 24, 2009. The Sacred and the Violent: On Film Style, University of Minnesota, November 20, 2008. Panelist on round table on Caché, Philoctetes Center, New York, November 8, 2008, with Brigitte Peucker, Garret Stewart, and Roy Grundmann. On Compromises, The World Picture Conference, Oklahoma State University, October 24, 2008. The Sacred and the Violent: On Film Style, Friends of the Forms, Oklahoma State University, April 8, 2008. The Sacred and the Violent: On the Origin of Film, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 8, 2008, Philadelphia. 120 Days of R. Kelly, The World Picture Conference, Oklahoma State University, October 26, 2007. The Cinema Thing, The Real Things Conference, University of York, UK, July 5, 2007. Film Frame, World Picture, Oklahoma Film and Video Society, Oklahoma City, March 31, 2007. Film Style, Period Building, and Technological Determinism, The Udine Conference on Film Style, Le età del cinema. Udine, Italy, March 22, 2007. Film Frame, World Picture, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 11, Chicago, 2007. Contemporary French Cinema and Sexuality, Alliance Francaise, Chicago, December 8, 2007. Color and Perception, Northwestern University, Block Museum, April 29 th, 2006. The Trail of the Figure, Framework Conference, Oklahoma State University, Nov. 4, 2006. Pain and the Commodity Character of Art, AIZEN Conference on Realism and Naturalism, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, May 5, 2006. Pain and the Commodity Character of Art: Haneke s Realism, Oklahoma Film
and Video Society, Tulsa, March 25, 2006. Pain and the Commodity Character of Art, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2006. Chair and Organizer of Workshop, The Future of Theory, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2006. The State of French Cinema, Alliance Francaise, Chicago, March 23, 2005. The Social Value of Color Abstractions in Narrative Film, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004. A Conversation with Olivier Assayas, Northwestern University, Block Museum, November 19, 2004. A Conversation with Ken Jacobs, with Michelle Dent, New York University, March 24, 2003. Chair of, and presenter on, the workshop, The Place of Color Aesthetics in Film Studies, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2003. Tolstoy, Black and Blue: L Argent and the Politics of Adaptation, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2003. In the Wake of Revolution: Bresson s Lancelot du Lac, Bresson Symposium, Sarah Lawrence College, December 2002. Chair of, and presenter on, the workshop: New Perspectives on Robert Bresson, Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., May 2001. From Pickpocket to Prisoner: Bresson s Hands, Society for Cinema Studies Washington, D.C., May 2001. Tradition and the Commodified Talent: Tarantino s Jackie Brown, Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago, March 2000. The Word Made Color: On Bresson s Une femme douce, Graduate Student/Faculty Conference, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, New York, March 2000. Saint Scorsese: Film Collecting and Self Preservation, Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 1997. Algeria and the Return of Vichy in Alain Resnais Muriel, Film and Literature Association Conference, Towson, Maryland, November 1996. Debord/Détournement, Kent State University Cinema Conference, Kent, Ohio, October 1995. Professional Affiliations and Activities Chair of Professional Development Committee, Society of Cinema and Media Studies, 2010-2012. Project Director, Open Society Institute seminar on media and philosophy. This grant allows for a three year-long seminar convening biannually in the post-soviet region which works to promote new models for thinking media in more philosophical terms for the junior faculty in the post-soviet region. 2009-1012.
Co-founder and co-organizer of the World Picture Conference, an annual conference on aesthetics and critical theory, 2006-present. Co-editor, World Picture, on-line journal of continental philosophy, politics, and media: worldpicturejournal.com, 2007 to present. Co-editor, Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, published by Wayne State University Press, July 2005 to January 2007. Assistant Editor, Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, published by Wayne State University Press, October 2002 to July 2005.