J. HOBERMAN

'Jim Hoberman' (born 1948), also known as 'J. Hoberman' is a prominent American film critic. He's currently the senior film critic for ''The Village Voice'', a post he has held since 1988.

Contents

Education

Present career

Partial Bibliography

As Author

As Co-Author

External links

Education

After receiving an MA in Film Studies from Columbia University he began working for the ''Voice'' as third-stringer under Andrew Sarris specializing in experimental film. His first film review was in 1977 for David Lynch's Eraserhead, the avant-garde midnight movie.

Present career

He's presently a professor of film studies at 'Cooper Union' in New York, and he's lectured on Communism in Film at Harvard University. He's a notable contributor to Film Comment magazine, where he serves as one of the editors. Hoberman has published several books, including a collaboration with ''Chicago Reader'' film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, entitled ''Midnight Movies'', written in 1983.
Along with Jonathan Rosenbaum, he's greatly revered as a contemporary American film critic.

Partial Bibliography

As Author

★ ''The Magic Hour''

★ ''The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties''

★ ''Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds''

★ ''Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Film and Other Media''

★ ''Home Made Movies: Twenty Years of American 8Mm & Super-8 Films''

★ ''42nd Street'' (BFI Film Classics)

★ ''Dennis Hopper: From Method to Madness''

★ ''The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism''

As Co-Author

★ ''Midnight Movies'' (with Jonathan Rosenbaum)

External links

★ ''Senses of Cinema'' intervew

★ J. Hoberman's Top Ten Lists, 1977-2005