Bruce Williams

Bruce Williams is Professor 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 cultural studies, national cinemas (Latin America, Asia, and the "other" Europe), film theory, Spanish-language media, and bilingual media. Williams is co-author, with Keumsil Kim-Yoon, of Two Lenses on the Korean Ethos: Key Cultural Concepts and Their Appearance in Cinema. He currently has a book, Albanian Cinema through the Fall of Communism, forthcoming with Amsterdam University press and ois currently working on a manuscript on Albanian cinema in the transnational era. 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.

Ongoing areas of research include race, and the discourse of marginalization in media studies; itinerant/stateless voices in media; bilingualism and media; Latino cinema in the US, and film ties among Latin America, Africa, and the Soviet Union.

Professional Interests

cinema studies; minority discourse and media;  language and media, bilingual studies

Other Interests

language and ethnography in Russia

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