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Jim Hoberman (born 1948), also known as J. Hoberman is a prominent American film critic. He's currently the senior film critic for The Village Voice
The Village Voice

The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper in New York City, United States featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City....
, a post he has held since 1988.

r receiving a Master of Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts

In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor's degree level and usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, or theater/performing arts....
 in Film Production from Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
 he began working for the Voice as third-stringer under Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris, born on October 31, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, is a United States film criticism and a leading proponent of the auteur theory of criticism....
 specializing in experimental film
Experimental film

Experimental film or experimental cinema describes a range of filmmaking styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary filmmaking....
. His first film review was in 1977 for David Lynch
David Lynch

David Keith Lynch is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, Painting, cartoonist, composer, video artist and performance artist....
's Eraserhead
Eraserhead

Eraserhead is a surrealist-horror film written and directed by David Lynch, and released in . In 1971, Lynch moved to Los Angeles to study for an MFA degree at the AFI Conservatory....
, an avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 midnight movie.

rman has taught cinema history at Cooper Union
Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a privately-funded college in Downtown Manhattan, New York City. Cooper Union, founded in 1859, established a radical new model of American higher education....
 since 1990.






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Jim Hoberman (born 1948), also known as J. Hoberman is a prominent American film critic. He's currently the senior film critic for The Village Voice
The Village Voice

The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper in New York City, United States featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City....
, a post he has held since 1988.

Education

After receiving a Master of Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts

In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor's degree level and usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, or theater/performing arts....
 in Film Production from Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
 he began working for the Voice as third-stringer under Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris, born on October 31, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, is a United States film criticism and a leading proponent of the auteur theory of criticism....
 specializing in experimental film
Experimental film

Experimental film or experimental cinema describes a range of filmmaking styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary filmmaking....
. His first film review was in 1977 for David Lynch
David Lynch

David Keith Lynch is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, Painting, cartoonist, composer, video artist and performance artist....
's Eraserhead
Eraserhead

Eraserhead is a surrealist-horror film written and directed by David Lynch, and released in . In 1971, Lynch moved to Los Angeles to study for an MFA degree at the AFI Conservatory....
, an avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 midnight movie.

Present career

Hoberman has taught cinema history at Cooper Union
Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a privately-funded college in Downtown Manhattan, New York City. Cooper Union, founded in 1859, established a radical new model of American higher education....
 since 1990. He received his B.A. at the State University of New York (Binghamton) and his M.F.A. from Columbia University. Additionally, he's lectured on Communism
Communism

Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarianism, classlessness, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general....
 in Film at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 and lecture on cinema at New York University
New York University

New York University is a private university, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan....
. He's a notable contributor to Film Comment
Film Comment

Film Comment is a bimonthly film journal published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new filmmakers, and to enhance awareness and enjoyment of cinema's riches among moviegoers....
 magazine, where he serves as one of the editors. Hoberman has published several books, including a collaboration with Chicago Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American cinema film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, when he retired at the age of 65....
, entitled Midnight Movies, written in 1983. In 2008 Hoberman received the prestigious Mel Novikoff Award. An award "bestowed on an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the filmgoing public’s knowledge and appreciation of world cinema."

Partial bibliography


As author

  • The Magic Hour
  • The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties
  • Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds
  • Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Film and Other Media
  • Home Made Movies: Twenty Years of American 8Mm & Super-8 Films
  • 42nd Street (BFI Film Classics)
  • Dennis Hopper: From Method to Madness
  • The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism


As co-author

  • Midnight Movies (with Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Jonathan Rosenbaum

    Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American cinema film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, when he retired at the age of 65....
    )


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