Faculty

SETH FELDMAN

BA (Johns Hopkins), PhD (SUNY Buffalo)
University Professor: Film and Television Studies
Department of Film, York University

sfeldman@yorku.ca

Selected Publications | Selected Broadcasts

A founder and past president of the Film Studies Association of Canada, Seth Feldman has published widely on national and international cinemas. He has edited three anthologies on the subject of Canadian cinema, among them the seminal Canadian Film Reader -- the first textbook to be published on Canadian film. Other academic publications include numerous articles in the field of film and television studies and two books on the work of the Soviet director Dziga Vertov.

Dr. Feldman is the author and broadcaster of more than two dozen documentaries for the CBC Radio's Ideas program. His arts and media commentary has appeared widely on Canadian broadcast outlets and in the popular press. His most recent Ideas broadcast, The Evolution of Charles Darwin (November 2009), explores the life and ideas of the groundbreaking evolutionary scientist.

As a film programmer, Seth Feldman helped shape the Canadian Images Film Festival and the Grierson Film Seminar. In 1998, he co-organized a landmark Canadian cinema retrospective with the China Film Archive in Beijing. In 2000/2001, as Robarts Chair in the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University, he curated The Triumph of Canada Cinema, a series of lectures, screenings and panel discussions featuring some of the leading lights in Canadian film and television. In 2002, he programmed the Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian Retrospective series on pioneering Canadian filmmaker Allan King, and edited the book, Allan King, that was launched in conjunction with the retrospective.

Dr. Feldman is the director of the short film The Dachau Line, a documentary that follows a path marked by the City of Dachau between the railway station and the concentration camp. He is currently working on a second short film, titled Mauthausen: Like a River.

Professor Feldman has served as associate dean and dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, as Chair of the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans, on the board of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans, and as director of York's Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies.

York University conferred the formal title of "University Professor" upon Dr. Feldman in 2001 in recognition of his extraordinary contribution in teaching and service to the University.