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Thom Delapa
Thom is a film & media studies educator, film critic, film programmer, and part-time playwright based in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, where he has taught at the University of Michigan and the College for Creative Studies (Detroit). He holds an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University-Tisch School of the Arts and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. He has developed and taught film & media studies courses at other leading U.S. higher-ed institutions, including the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Denver. He has regularly written on film for Cineaste magazine, the Chicago Tribune, AlterNet.org, and the Conversation.com, et al. He awaits the end of the Internet (as we know it) with optimism.
Education:New York University-Tisch School of the Arts, 1990MA Cinema StudiesUniversity of ChicagoMA Social SciencesUniversity of Colorado, 1986BA Liberal ArtsExpertise:Articles by Thom Delapa
Dante’s Inferno is hailed as a medieval masterpiece and a precursor to the Renaissance, with T.S. Eliot having ranked it alongside Shakespeare.
Few diaries are as treasured as the one written by Anne Frank, a precocious, gabby girl living in Holland during World War II.
How did Voltaire take the 18th-century Enlightenment’s rose-colored outlook and paint it into a black comedy titled Candide?
Look up in the sky! No, it’s not Superwoman. It’s the Jazz Age flapper, one of the highest-flying social creations of the 1920s.
Learn how the Stanislavsky school of acting, alias the “Method,” matriculated to the movies in the years after World War II, in eight methodical lessons.
Few film movements have been as influential as the French New Wave. Why did it come on like a tsunami in world cinema?
Chantal Akerman’s movie Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is an important feminist movie that was voted the greatest film of all time.
Art often tries to imitate reality. But what if that replication is vacuous or even harmful? Learn about the meaning of images, from Plato’s Cave to Baudrillard’s simulacra.