Charles
Derry is available for public lecture on topics relating to film, popular
culture, gay studies, and writing; as well as for workshops and seminars
relating to all aspects of writing, screenwriting, and acting for film
(from either the director's or actor's perspective). He has
taught extensively in the area of film studies, including courses in film
history and theory, the movie musical, the television soap opera, the melodrama,
the western, the horror film, the comedy, French and Italian film, the
blacklist period, gay cinema, feminist film, concepts of mystery and suspense,
surrealist and subversive film, the Hollywood star system, and contemporary
American film and TV. As well, he has taught in-depth surveys of
the film work of Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Jerry Lewis, Ingmar
Bergman, David Lynch, John Ford, Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo
Antonioni, Steven Spielberg, and the French New Wave auteurs, among many
others. Charles Derry is available for travel to read from his work,
to lecture on contemporary film, to participate in panels, and for
consultation on screenplays and other writing projects. Born in Cleveland,
Ohio, and currently living in Dayton, where he teaches at Wright State
University, Charles Derry received a master's degree in Cinema from the
University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern
University, just outside Chicago, where he lived for eight years.
The photograph to the left, taken in an Italian neighborhood in Cleveland
in the fifties, may show his earliest interest in the camera...
"Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others
understand very little about anything of consequence."
--The Essential Earthman, by Henry Mitchell
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