Jonah Corne

• FILM 1290 - The Art of the Film
• FILM 1310 - Film History 
• FILM 2370 - Experimental Film 
• FILM 2380 - Mediating the Mystical 
• FILM 2380 - Sometimes Pus, Sometimes Poetry: Cinema and Israel/Palestine 
• FILM 3250 - Film and Photography 
• FILM 3250 - Cinema, Media, and Surveillance 
• FILM 3420 - Film Theory 

I am a Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media, where I serve as the Coordinator of the Film Studies Program. My research focuses primarily on global cinema, experimental film, film and media theory, modernist literature, and Jewish studies. My book, co-authored with Monika Vrečar, Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication, explores Yiddish movies’ fascination with media and communication through the lens of the Czech-Jewish media philosopher Vilém Flusser. I have also published a number of articles dealing with filmmakers, writers, and thinkers such as Michael Klier, Rebecca West, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Michel Chion, Michael Mann, E.M. Forster, Josef von Sternberg, Delmore Schwartz, Julian Schnabel, Georg Simmel, and Wilhelm Worringer. My current project looks at the representation of mysticism across a wide range of works of contemporary cinema. 

• PhD, Cornell University

Research interests

• Global cinema
• Experimental cinema
• Film and media theory
• Modernist literature
• Jewish studies

Book

• Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication (co-authored with Monika Vrečar) (SUNY Press, 2023)

Articles

• “Surveillance Fantasies: On Michael Klier’s Der Riese,” Border Crossings, No. 160, 2022, pp. 78-87.
• “Regicide on Repeat: The Pensive Spectator of Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon,” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, Vol. 60, No. 1, Winter 2018, 47-74. 
• “After Life, Early Cinema: Re-making the Past with Hirokazu Kore-eda,” in New Silent Cinema, eds. Paul Flaig and Katherine Groo, Routledge, AFI Film Reader Series, 2016, pp. 85-105.
• “Michel Chion: Listening to Cinema,” in Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice, eds. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer, Rutgers University Press, 2015, pp. 229-240. 
• “Emotion, Truth, and Space in Heat,” in Michael Mann and Philosophy, eds. Steven Sanders, Aeon J. Skoble, and R. Barton Palmer, University of Kentucky Press, 2014, pp. 227-243
• “Queer Fragments: Ruination and Sexuality in E.M. Forster,” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, 41.3, Summer 2014, pp. 27-44. 
• “Shouting at the Silents: The Cine-Dreams of Delmore Schwartz,” Border Crossings, No. 123, 2012, pp. 46-50. 
• “Gods and Nobodies: The Extra, The October Jubilee, and Joseph von Sternberg's The Last Command,” Film International, Vol. 9, No. 6, 2011, pp. 41-58. 
• “In the Blink of a Speaking Eye: On Vision and Language in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2010, pp. 217-229.
• “Asphalt Jungles: Urbanism and Primitivism in Georg Simmel and Wilhelm Worringer,” in Georg Simmel in Translation: Interdisciplinary Border Crossings in Culture and Modernity, ed. David Kim. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006 (second revised edition, 2009), pp. 90-105.