Rahul Hamid
Director of Student Affairs & Associate Faculty
rh388@nyu.edu
(212) 992-7750
1 Wash Pl, Room 514
Office Hours
Tuesday 1-5
B.A. Film Studies, Columbia University, 1999
M.A. Cinema Studies, New York University, 2001
Rahul Hamid is a cinema scholar and film critic. His teaching interests include Iranian cinema, silent film, narrative, modernism and cinema, post-colonial studies, genre theory and food studies. He is an editor at Cineaste Magazine, one of America’s oldest film publications.
Teaching and Research Interests
Iranian cinema; modernism in cinema; early film; narrative theory; politics and aesthetics; adaptation; film criticism
Courses
2019 Spring
Pictures at a Revolution: Film as Political Rhetoric
2018 Spring
Night and the City: Film Noir and the Noir Imagination
2017 Fall
The Coen Brothers: Failure and the American Dream
2016 Fall
Pictures at a Revolution: Film as Political Rhetoric
2015 Fall
