******Congratulations to Dr. Bernstein for his book, SCREENING A LYNCHING, being named a 2009 "Outstanding Academic Title" by CHOICE******

Prof. Bernstein talks about The People vs Leo Frank--click HERE to view

Education:

1987. PhD (Communication Studies), University of Wisconsin-Madison
1982. MFA (Film), Columbia University
1980. BA (English), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Books:

Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television
(University of Georgia Press, 2009) Buy this book.

Co-Editor (with Gaylyn Studlar), John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era
(Indiana University Press, 2001) Buy this book.

Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent
(University of Minnesota Press, 2000; University of California Press, 1994) Buy this book.

Editor, Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era
(Rutgers University Press, 2000) Buy this book.

Co-Editor (with Gaylyn Studlar), Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film
(Rutgers University Press, 1997) Buy this book.

Other Recent Publications:

“The Producer as Auteur,” in Barry K. Grant, Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader (New York: Blackwell’s, 2008), 180-189.

“Imitation of Life (1934) in a Segregated Atlanta: its Promotion, Distribution and Reception,” co-authored with Dana F. White, Film History 19, no. 2 (2007): 152-178.

“They Won’t Forget: Trying to Tell the Truth and Nothing but the Truth,” The Oxford American, no. 56 (2007): 76-79 (non-refereed).

“John Huston’s Wise Blood,” in 20th Century American Fiction on Film, ed. R. Barton Palmer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 144-169, March 2007.

“Stagecoach (1939),” in Film Analysis: A Norton Reader, Jeffrey Geiger and R.L. Rutsky, eds. (New York: Norton, 2005), 318-338.

"Oscar Micheaux and Leo Frank: Cinematic Justice Across the Color Line," Film Quarterly 57, No. 4 (Summer 2004): 8-21.
***Winner, 2005 Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award from The Society for Cinema and Media Studies for outstanding scholarship in film and media studies.

"Kurosawa's Narration and the Noh Theater," in Post Script 20, no. 1 ("Special Issue on Akira Kurosawa," Spring 2000): 34-45.

"Perfecting the New Gangster: Writing Bonnie and Clyde," Film Quarterly 53, no. 4 (2000), 16-31.

"High and Low: Art Cinema and Pulp Fiction in Yokohama Harbor," in James Naremore (ed.), Film Adaptation, Rutgers University Press (2000), 172-189.

Co-editor with Dana F. White, "Movie-going Metropolis," Special Issue of Atlanta History 43, no. 2 (Summer 1999).

"Model Criminals: Visual Style in Bonnie and Clyde," in Lester D. Friedman (ed.), Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, Cambridge University Press (1999), 101-126.

"Selznick's March: Gone With the Wind Comes to White Atlanta," Atlanta History 43, no. 2 (Summer 1999), 7-33. Winner of the Franklin M. Garrett Prize for Best Essay on Atlanta and Georgia History, 1998-1999.

"'Floating Triumphantly': The American Critics on Titanic," in Kevin Sandler and Gaylyn Studlar (eds.), Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster, Rutgers University Press (1999), 14-28.

Other:

"Host of the Cinema Club, beginning its 12th season in September 2009. Click here for more information.

Member, National Film Preservation Board, advising the Librarian of Congress on the National Film Registry and matters of film preservation.

Member, Programming, Steering and Selection Committees of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.

Book Review Editor, Film Quarterly

Awards:

2008 IMAGE (Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc.) Award, Atlanta, GA.

2006 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Award, American Jewish Committee, Atlanta, GA.