Timothy Corrigan Wins the 2012 SCMS Kovács Book Award

Professor of English and Cinema Studies Timothy Corrigan won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2012 Kovács Book Award. Corrigan was presented the award in March for his book, The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker, which offers a global perspective of the essay-film genre and examines non-fiction films such as “Grizzly Man,” “The Fog of War,” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Corrigan’s research focuses on modern American and contemporary international cinema. He authored several other books including New German Film: The Displaced Image, A Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam and American Cinema of the 2000s. Corrigan is an editor of Critical Visions in Film Theory.

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