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Rick Warner is associate professor of film and Kenan Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is coeditor with Colin MacCabe and Kathleen Murray of True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity (2011) and with Gregory Flaxman and Elena Oxman of The Film-Philosophy Reader (forthcoming). His essays have appeared in several edited collections, as well as in New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Adaptation, Critical Quarterly, Post-Script, The Cine-Files, Senses of Cinema, La Furia Umana, and Journal of Popular Film and Television. His writing has focused on such topics as the essay film, slow cinema, film performance, New Hollywood cinema of the 1970s, East Asian art cinema, surrealism, “old” versus “new” media, and screen-based installation art. His first book is Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks (2018). He is currently working on a monograph that examines “contemplative” styles in global art cinema from 1945 to the present.
