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MICHAEL ZRYD
BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (NYU)
Associate Professor: Film Studies
Graduate Program Director, MA in Film and PhD in Cinema and Media Studies
Department of Film, York University
Professor Zryd's research interests include experimental and avant-garde cinema; documentary film theory; the history of cinema and media studies; American populism in film and media; and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Major research projects include a conceptual reconstruction of Hollis Frampton's never-completed Magellan project (1972-1980); an institutional study of the relationship between experimental film and the academy, and the development of cinema studies in Canada and the United States (1960s-present); and a critical examination of irony in documentary and experimental film. He has curated or co-curated Hollis Frampton Magellan retrospectives in Toronto, New York, Karlsruhe, and London.
Michael Zryd is currently the archivist of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and was elected to its Board of Directors in 2008. He served as President of the Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) in 2005-06, and as Chair of the board of directors of the Images Festival in 2004-05.
Before joining York University's Film Department, Dr. Zryd taught at the University of Western Ontario, Bard College, SUNY Binghamton, CUNY Brooklyn College, New York University and the University of Toronto. He has spoken widely in Canada, United States, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. He teaches courses on experimental film and media, documentary film, film history, American cinema, early cinema, methodology, and film theory and aesthetics. Currently, he is serving as director of the Graduate Program in Film (MA) and the Graduate Program in Cinema and Media Studies (PhD).
Publications:
“Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America.” Inventing Film Studies, ed. Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2008. 182-216.
“Hollis Frampton’s Magellan,” Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers: 1973-1990. Karlsruhe: ZKM and Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2008.
“A Movie A Day and other Film Calendars,” Midi Onodera Collected Works. DVD. 2008.
“Avant-Garde Films: Teaching Wavelength,” Cinema Journal 47.1, In Focus section, “Teaching Difficult Films, 2007.
“Poetry and Process: Three Films by Philip Hoffman,” Spotlight Series: Philip Hoffman, Toronto: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, 2007.
“The Academy and the Avant-Garde: A Relationship of Dependence and Resistance.” Cinema Journal 45, no. 2, February 2006, 17-42.
Nicola Galombik and Michael Zryd. “The Brig: The Paradox Of Resistance And Recuperation.” CineAction 69 (2006): 40-49.
“History and Ambivalence in Hollis Frampton’s Magellan.” October 109 (Summer 2004): 119-142.
“Found Footage Film as Discursive Metahistory: Craig Baldwin’s Tribulation 99.” [revised English version of essay first published in Montage/av 11.1]. The Moving Image 3.2 (Fall 2003): 40-61.
“Hybrid as Allegory.” The Films of Jack Chambers. Ed. Kathy Elder. Cinematheque Ontario Monographs Series. Toronto: Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2002. 59-65.
“A Report on Canadian Experimental Film Institutions 1980-2000.” North of Everything: English Canadian Cinema Since 1980. Eds. William Beard and Jerry White. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002. 392-401.
“Ironic Identity Frames and the Autobiographical Documentary: Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury’s Halving the Bones (1995) and My Year of Meats (1998). Literary Research/Recherche littéraire 18.35 (Spring Summer 2001): 120-132.
Brian Wall and Michael Zryd. “Vampire Dialectics: Knowledge, Institutions and Labour.” Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz Kaveney. London & New York: Taurus Parke, 2001. 53-77.
"Deception and Ethics in ?O, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film). Landscape with Shipwreck: First Person Cinema and the Films of Philip Hoffman. Eds. Karyn Sandlos and Michael Hoolboom. Toronto: Images Festival of Independent Film & Video and Insomniac Press, 2001. 42 55.
“Scale.” Public 19/20 (2000): 57-59 (in vol. 2 of special issue entitled “Lexicon: 20th Century A.D.).
“‘There Are Many Joyces’: The Critical Reception of the Films of Joyce Wieland.” The Films of Joyce Wieland, ed. Kathy Elder. Cinematheque Ontario Monographs Series, no. 3. Toronto: Toronto International Film Festival Group, 1999. 195-212.