Joanna Rapf is the author
of Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1995), On
the Waterfront (Cambridge, 2002), Interviews with Sidney
Lumet (Univ. of Mississippi Press, 2005), and with Andy Horton,
A Companion to Film Comedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). Her articles on film
have appeared in such journals as Film Quarterly, The Cinema Journal, Literature/Film
Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Film Criticism,
Journal of Popular Culture, Studies in American Humor, Western Humanities Review,
and in a number of critical anthologies, including essays on Woody Allen in
A Companion to Woody Allen (Wiley-Blackwell 2012), on Marie Dressler in
Idols of Modernity (Rutgers 2010), on Roscue Arbuckle in Slapstick Comedy
(Routledge, 2010) and an essay on feminism and Jerry Lewis
praised by the comedian himself in Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader (Routledge,
2003). In addition to writing on film, she is on the editorial board of
Film Quarterly, and has also published on
English Romantic poetry in Victorian Poetry (Tennyson &
Wordsworth), Studies in Romanticism (John Clare), Studies
in English Literature (Byron), Keats-Shelley Memorial
Bulletin (Shelley), and two critical collections: Approaches
to Teaching Bryon's Poetry (MLA, 1991) and Influence and
Resistance in 19th-Century Poetry (Macmillan, 1993). Professor Rapf's graduate course
is on "Film Theory and Criticism," often with an emphasis on feminist film
theory, and comic theory. She believes that today, when we watch more
television and see more movies than we read books, visual literacy is
the sine qua non of an educated and informed life.
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