Intellect

Robert von Dassanowsky is Professor of German and Film Studies, and Director of the Film Studies program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is also active as an independent film producer with his company, Belvedere Film. Dassanowsky is a Delegate to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, VP of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA) and a fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. His 2005 book, Austrian Cinema: A History (McFarland), is the first English-language survey of that nation’s cinema art and industry. His latest books include a co-edited collection (with Oliver C. Speck) on New Austrian Film (Berghahn 2011), a co-edited study (with Martin Liebscher and Christophe Fricker) and The Nameable and the Unnameable: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige Revisited (U of London/ Iudicium 2011).

Also a collection of critical essays on Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Manipulations of Metacinema (Continuum 2012). Dassanowsky is currently editing Intellect's World Film Locations: Vienna volume. His study, Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism 1933-38 is forthcoming in 2012.