Sam Rohdie is currently Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Film at the University of Central Florida. He has held the Chair in Film Studies at The Queens University of Belfast and before that was Professor of Film Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has held academic posts in universities in England, Ghana, Italy and the United States and was an original member of the Cinema Studies Program at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has published widely on film in academic journals and books. Sam was the editor of Screen in the United Kingdom from 1971 to 1974.

Education

• Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from La Trobe University (1980)
• Certificate in Social Anthropology from Oxford University (1967)
• M.A. in History from Yale University (1960)
• B.A. in History from Brandeis University (1959)

Recent Research Activities

Working on a study of the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

Selected Publications

Books

• Montage, Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2006
• Fellini Lexicon, London : BFI Publishing, 2002
• Promised Lands: Cinema, Geography, Modernism; London : British Film Institute, 2001
• The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini, London : British Film Institute / Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996
• Rocco and His Brothers, London : BFI Publishing, 1993
• Antonioni, London : BFI Publishing, 1990

Courses

Updated: Jul 27, 2012