David Desser
David Desser (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa (UMI Research Press) and Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema (Indiana University Press); the co-author (with Lester Friedman) of American Jewish Filmmakers (U of Illinois Press); and the editor of Ozu’s Tokyo Story (Cambridge University Press).
Books by David Desser
Lester Friedman, David Desser, Sarah Kozloff, Martha Nochimson, Stephen Prince
Paperback, 2013
A brisk, accessible, and informative introduction to film genres.
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Lester Friedman, David Desser, Sarah Kozloff, Martha Nochimson, Stephen Prince
E Book, 2022
A brisk, accessible, and informative introduction to film genres.
