The Ohio State University The Department of History of Art The College of the Arts

Ronald Green—Professor

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Ronald Green

Professor Green's specialties include the History, Theory and Criticism of Film, especially European and American Avant-Garde, Documentary, African-American and certain approaches to mainstream film. In addition to these areas, he is also a critic of digital media, video art, photography and contemporary art and the institutional development of media arts. He has presented papers and numerous conferences and colloquia in America, in addition to Glasgow, Grenoble and Pordenone. He has had residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa in Bellagio and at the Fundación Valpariso in Mojacar, Spain. He has served as president of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, trustee of the American Film Institute, chair of the Department of Photography and Cinema at the Ohio State University, director of Media Study/Buffalo, and assistant director of the Media Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts. He recently received the "Year of the Individual Artist" Fellowship in Art Criticism from the Ohio Arts Council and Dialogue, Inc., in "reward for past work."


Publications

    Articles & Essays

  • "Re-inventing the Film/Video Loop," lead essay in catalog for retrospective on the film installations of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Calician Center for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostella, Spain, 2005.
  • "Thanks Fidel," in Tony Mendoza: Photographs, Words, Video (Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art, 2003), pp. 24–37.
  • "The Reemergence of Oscar Micheaux: A Timeline and Bibliographic Essay," in Oscar Micheaux and His Circle, Pearl Bowser, Janes Gaines, Charles Musser, eds. Indiana Univerity Press and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2001, pp. 211–227.
  • Program notes on Veiled Aristocrats and Birthright, in Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2001: Pordenone Silent Film Festival, XX edizione (Sacile, Italy: 2001), p. 69–71.
  • "Maximizing Indeterminacy: On Collage in Writing, Film, Video, Installation and Other Artistic Realms (as well as the Shroud of Turin)," Afterimage, May/June 2000, pp. 8–11.
  • "Oscar Micheaux's Interrogation of Caricature as Entertainment," Film Quarterly, Spring 1998, pp. 16–31.
  • "Always Already: Affinities Between Art and Film," Afterimage, March/April 1998, pp. 8–11.
  • "Micheaux v. Griffith," Griffithiana, Oct. 1997, Vols. 60/61, pp. 32–49. "The Illustrated Lecture," Quarterly Review of Film Studies (University of Southern California), Summer 1994, pp. 1–23.

    • Books, Edited Volumes, & Exhibition Catalogues

  • With a Crooked Stick—The Films of Oscar Micheaux, Indiana University Press, 2004.
  • Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux. Indiana University Press, 2000.

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

    Presentations

  • "Critical Theories of Trauma: Indian Cinema," Clusters of Interdisciplinary Research on International Themes, Hale Black Cultural Center, May 27, 2005
  • "Blockbuster Documentaries: Celebrities and Heros" Worthington Arts Council, April 14, 2005
  • "Reshaping the Film/Video Loop," Society for Cinema Studies, London, England, March 31, 2005
  • "Blockbuster Documentaries: Why Now?" Worthington Arts Council, February 3, 2005
  • "The Film Installations of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler," Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, April 8

    • Seminars

  • The Film/Video Loop
  • African-American Cinema: The Case of Oscar Micheaux
  • American Film Genres
  • Films of Jean-Luc Godard
  • Film Theory II
  • Films of Straub and Huillet
  • Wexner Center Media Arts
  • Inexpensive Cinema
  • The Frankfurt School and Film
  • Saussure, Metz, and Film Semiotics
  • Films of Yvonne Rainer
  • Films of Clint Eastwood
  • Films of George Cukor
  • Films of Otto Preminger

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

  • Travel support for opening of Hubbard and Birchler retrospective, Galician Center for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostella, Spain, October, 2005

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