William Rothman

Biographic Data

ID3867131
NAMEWilliam Rothman
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMERothman
SIGNATUREROTHMAN W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Miami
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Nosferatu

    William RothmanARTICLEQuarterly Review of Film Studies2026

  • Film as Film and the Personal

    Open AccessWilliam RothmanARTICLEFilm International2021

  • Looking with Robert Gardner

    Rebecca Meyers, William Rothman et al.EDITORBOOKLooking with Robert Gardner2016

  • Looking with Robert Gardner

    Rebecca Meyers, Charles Warren et al.BOOKLooking with Robert Gardner2016

    "During his lifetime, Robert Gardner (1925{u2013}2014) was often pigeonholed as an ethnographic filmmaker, then criticized for failing to conform to the genre{u2019}s conventions{u2014}conventions he radically challenged. With the release of his groundbreaking film Dead Birds in 1963, Gardner established himself as one of the world{u2019}s most extraordinary independent filmmakers, working in a unique border area between ethnography, the essay fi…

  • Must We Kill the Thing We Love?

    William RothmanBOOKMust We Kill The Thing We Love…2014

    William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock's work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, "Each man kills the thing he loves," with the quintessentially American philosophy, articulated in Emerson's writings, that gave classical Hollywood movies of the New Deal era their extraordinary combination of popularity and artistic seriousness. A Hitchcock thriller could be a comedy of remarriage or…

  • Romance, eroticism and the camera's gaze in Jean Genet's Un Chant d'amour

    William RothmanARTICLEFilm International2009

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  • Bazin as a Cavellian realist

    William RothmanARTICLEFilm International2007

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  • Notes on Ozu's cinematic style

    William RothmanARTICLEFilm International2006

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  • Matters of Life and Tom Hopkins' Love, Death, and the Mirror

    William RothmanARTICLEFilm International2003

  • Nobody's Perfect

    William Rothman, Rothman WilliamARTICLEFilm International2003

    Billy Wilder's reputation as filmmaker is built on his tight, cynical and witty sceenplays. But where is Billy Wilder, the director? In this study of scenes from four films Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment William Rothman looks for his signature

  • Reading Hitchcock

    Fredric Jameson, William RothmanARTICLEOctober1982Cited by: 1

  • Alfred Guzzetti's “family portrait sittings”

    William RothmanARTICLEQuarterly Review of Film Studies1977

  • "Against "The System of the Suture

    William RothmanARTICLEFilm Quarterly1975Cited by: 4

    Research Article| October 01 1975 Against "The System of the Suture" William Rothman William Rothman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Film Quarterly (1975) 29 (1): 45–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/1211840 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation William R…

  • Filmguide to The Rules of the Game

    William Rothman, Gerald MastARTICLECinema Journal1974