Rene Thoreau Bruckner, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

213.740.3334
rbruckner@cinema.usc.edu
LUC 405

René Thoreau Bruckner received his B.A. from UC San Diego and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Visual Studies from UC Irvine. His teaching and research focus on the history and theory of film, critical theory and philosophy, and the study of visual culture. In addition to general film history and theory courses, he has taught about visual culture and analysis, mass media, new media, cinematic time, technology, creativity, fantasy, and Hong Kong action film.

He has taught at Irvine, Loyola Marymount L.A., and most recently in a visiting appointment at Binghamton University (SUNY). His dissertation, The Art of Disappearance: Duration, Instantaneity, and the Conception of Cinema, looks into film's flickering image to gain insights about time, perception, memory, and history. He has also begun researching the speculative science of cryptozoology, the study of hidden animals.