Bruce E Williams

Bruce Williams is Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Languages and Cultures and co-coordinator of the program in International Cinema at the William Paterson University of New Jersey. He has published extensively in the areas of cinema history, film theory, Latin American and European cinemas, and language and cinema. He is the author, with Keumsil Kim-Yoon, of Two Lenses on the Korean Ethos: Key Cultural Concepts and Their Appearance in Cinema. His current research focuses on Albanian cinema, with particular emphasis on the Kinostudio era, the transition to international coproduction, and women directors. Williams is at work on a book-length manuscript on Albanian cinema. His article, ‘It’s a Wonderful Job: Women at Work in the Cinema of Communist Albania’, published in Studies in Eastern European Cinema in 2015 received the 2016 award for best essay in the Central, Eastern, and Southern European Media Special Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. A Fulbright scholar (1977-78), Williams recently received an award of merit from Albania's ARbnori Center of Culture.

Professional Interests

cinema studies, language and media, bilingual studies

Other Interests

language and ethnography in Russia

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