From: DOMINIC ANGERAME (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 13:32:23 PDT
This indeed is sad news.....Paul had always supported
and championed the art of experimental and avant garde
filmmaking. He will surely be missed.
Dominic Angerame
--- Krista Strobel <email suppressed> wrote:
> I am truly and deeply sad to hear about this. I was
> a former student
> of Paul Arthur's at Montclair and always enjoyed his
> classes. I had
> the pleasure of working with him on an independent
> study as well, and
> he gladly wrote me a recommendation that helped get
> me accepted into
> graduate school a few years after I had finished my
> BA. He was always
> helpful and enthusiastic about sharing his knowledge
> and passion for
> the subject of cinema, and I've been delighted each
> and every time I
> have been working on a paper in graduate school and
> his name has
> popped up on a source or a piece of his writing was
> helpful to my
> research. He was a very strong and commanding
> professor who demanded
> nothing less but your best, and hearing this news
> just saddens me.
> This is indeed a great loss to the community.
>
> Thank you for posting the information to the group,
> I appreciate it as
> well as the nice words spoken about him.
>
> Krista
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Tony Conrad
> <email suppressed> wrote:
> > This message is from Professor Richard Allen of
> New York University:
> >
> > It is with much regret I announce that after a
> recent and short- lived struggle
> > with cancer, Scholar, Professor, NYU Alum,
> Colleague and Friend Paul Arthur
> > has passed away at the age of 61.
> >
> > Paul was a 1985 doctoral graduate of our
> department and everyone is familiar
> > with his groundbreaking dissertation, Shadows on
> the Mirror: Film Noir and Cold
> > War America, 1945-1957 which he completed with
> distinction under the
> > guidance of advisor Annette Michelson. Paul was a
> Professor in the
> > Department of English at Montclair State
> University and co-editor of Millennium
> > Film Journal. He was the author of A Line of
> Sight: American Avant-Garde
> > since 1965 as well as a frequent contributor to
> journals such as Cineaste and
> > Film Comment.
> >
> > Paul was a frequent guest and adjunct faculty
> member in our department
> > during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and he was
> much loved by his
> > students. I'm sure all of you share in my
> sadness in the loss of Paul as a
> > friend, former student, and colleague, and for
> the field of Cinema Studies. Paul
> > was a physically robust man who stood tall, let
> us all remember him in his
> > prime.
> >
> >
> >
>
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> >
>
>
>
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> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at
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