Professor of German and of Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida, Nora Alter focuses on twentieth-century cultural and visual studies from a comparative perspective. She is the author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (1996), Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000 (2002), and Chris Marker (2006). Together with Lutz Koepnick, she is the editor of Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustic of Modern German Culture (2004). She has published numerous essays in German and European studies, film and media studies, cultural and visual studies, and contemporary art. She has been awarded year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Howard Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2005, she was awarded the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies and the Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award. Alter is currently completing a new book on the international film essay.
Chris Marker Book
Chris Marker Book
