Jim Hoberman (born 1948), also known as J. Hoberman is a prominent American film critic. He's currently the senior film critic for The Village Voice, a post he has held since 1988.
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Education
After receiving an M.A. in Film Studies from Columbia University he began working for the Voice as third-stringer under Andrew Sarris specializing in experimental film. His first film review was in 1977 for David Lynch's Eraserhead, an avant-garde midnight movie.
Present career
He's presently a professor of film studies at Cooper Union in New York, and he's lectured on Communism in Film at Harvard University. He's a notable contributor to Film Comment magazine, where he serves as one of the editors. Hoberman has published several books, including a collaboration with Chicago Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, entitled Midnight Movies, written in 1983.
Partial bibliography
As author
- The Magic Hour
- The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties
- Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds
- Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Film and Other Media
- Home Made Movies: Twenty Years of American 8Mm & Super-8 Films
- 42nd Street (BFI Film Classics)
- Dennis Hopper: From Method to Madness
- The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism
As co-author
- Midnight Movies (with Jonathan Rosenbaum)
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