Art & Public Policy, Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
Courses
Language of Film
Anatomy of Difference
Education
Ph.D. Cinema Studies, NYU
M.A. Liberal Studies, NYU
B.F.A Film & Television, NYU
Biography
Dr. Antonio is the Associate Dean for Film, Television & New Media at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She also served as Interim Chair of the Graduate Film Program (2001-2002). As a faculty member in the Department of Film & Television and Art & Public Policy, she teaches Language of film (2002-2006) Anatomy of Difference (2001-2006) and co-taught Conventional Steps to Unconventional Image-Making: Close Reading, for the Center for Art, Society, and Public Policy (2001). She has received Curricular Development Challenge Grants for two courses, Issues in Contemporary African-American Cinema (taught 1992-1995) and Summer Film & Video Program for High School Students (designed in collaboration - 1995). She was an advisor in the Gallatin School and is a frequent lecturer whose more recent topics have included "The Other in Bush World USA" & "Black Representations and Media" Dr. Antonio also serves as an advisor and lecturer for various projects such as the William H. Cosby Future Filmmakers Workshop, and as a judge for Panasonic Kid Witness News and the NAACP ACT-SO. She has been interviewed for radio, television and print, including The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Black Issues in Higher Education, WNYC 933.9FM, and Nickelodeon. Dr. Antonio is the author of Contemporary African American Cinema, published in 2002, "New Black Cinema: When Self-Empowerment Becomes Assimilation" (Bertz Verlang) 2006 & "Matriarchs, Rebels, Adventurers, and Survivors: Renditions of Black Womanhood in Contemporary African American Cinema" (Sight & Sound- Supplement) July 2005.
