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Michael Zryd

Media and Culture

University   York University
E-Mail Address   zryd@yorku.ca
Phone Number   (416) 736-2100, ext. 22513
Office Location   227 C.F.T
Office Hours   Monday, 3-5 pm and by appointment


Education

B.A. (Toronto); M.A. (NYU); Ph.D.(NYU)

Biography

Professor Zryd is an Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies. He researches experimental and documentary film and other forms of alternative media in North America. His 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 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. He was Chair of the Board of Directors of the Images Festival in 2004-05, and President of the Film Studies Association of Canada in 2005-06. He is currently Archivist of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SMCS) and a member of the SCMS Board of Directors. He is the current co-chair of the Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group of SCMS and was co-founder of the Toronto Film Seminar. Zryd teaches courses on experimental film and media, documentary film, American cinema, film analysis and history, methodology, and film theory and aesthetics. He has previously taught at the University of Western Ontario, and as a visiting instructor at Oberlin College, Bard College, SUNY Binghamton, CUNY Brooklyn College, New York University, and the University of Toronto.

Research Interests

Experimental / avant-garde cinema; Documentary film theory; History of Cinema and Media Studies; American populism in film and media; Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hollis Frampton, Su Friedrich, Philip Hoffman, Ruth Ozeki.

Selected Pulblications

“The Avant-Garde and the Development of Film Study in America.” Inventing Film Studies, ed. Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson. Durham, NC: Duke UP, forthcoming.
“Hollis Frampton’s Magellan,” MindFrames: Media Study at Buffalo: 1973-1990. Karlsruhe: ZKM and Cambridge, MA: MIT P, forthcoming.
“The Academy and the Avant-Garde: A Relationship of Dependence and Resistance.” Cinema Journal 45, no. 2, February 2006, 17-42.
“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.” 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.
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.
“‘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. Toronto: Toronto International Film Festival Group, 1999. 195-212.

 

 

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