Rahul Hamid
Director of Student Affairs & Associate Faculty
rh388@nyu.edu
(212) 992-7750
1 Wash Pl, Room 514
Office Hours
Tuesday 1-6 Remote by Appt.
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
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
Night and the City: Film Noir and the Noir Imagination
2017 Fall
