Rahul Hamid
Director of Student Affairs & Associate Faculty
rh388@nyu.edu
(212) 992-7750
1 Wash Pl, Room 514
Office Hours
Wednesday 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.
Books
2001
Stephanie Tortu, Lloyd Goldsamt, and Rahul Hamid's A Practical Guide to Research and Service with Hidden Populations was published by Allyn and Bacon.
Teaching and Research Interests
Iranian cinema; modernism in cinema; early film; narrative theory; politics and aesthetics; adaptation; film criticism
Recent News
Rahul Hamid presented at 2021 The Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference for the Interviewing Middle Eastern Directors panel.
Courses
2022 Summer
African American Cinema and the Stakes of Representation
2021 Spring
Night and the City: Film Noir and the Noir Imagination
2021 Fall
Pictures at a Revolution: Film as Political Rhetoric
2020 Summer
The Coen Brothers: Failure and the American Dream
2020 Spring
African American Cinema and the Stakes of Representation
2019 Spring
Pictures at a Revolution: Film as Political Rhetoric
2018 Spring
