Ara Osterweil

Ara Osterweil is an abstract painter, writer, and scholar of postwar film and art, as well as an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the English Department at McGill University. She is a regular contributor at Artforum , and has also published essays in the Los Angeles Review of Books , Art Journal , Film Quarterly , Film Culture , Border Crossings , Camera Obscura , C Magazine , Little Joe , Framework , The Brooklyn Rail , and Millennium Film Journal . Her first book, Flesh Cinema: The...See more

Ara Osterweil is an abstract painter, writer, and scholar of postwar film and art, as well as an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the English Department at McGill University. She is a regular contributor at Artforum , and has also published essays in the Los Angeles Review of Books , Art Journal , Film Quarterly , Film Culture , Border Crossings , Camera Obscura , C Magazine , Little Joe , Framework , The Brooklyn Rail , and Millennium Film Journal . Her first book, Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film (Manchester University Press, 2014), examines the representation of sexuality in experimental film of the 1960s and 1970s. She is currently working on two books: The Pedophilic Imagination: A History of American Film , and a collection of experimental prose entitled S tains & Fragments . See less