Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Art & Public Policy
 | Sheril D. Antonio |
Courses
Anatomy of Difference: The Other in Film
The World Through Art
Language of Film
Conventional Steps to Unconventional Image-Making: Close Reading
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, and New Media in the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television and the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. From fall 2008 through fall 2009 she served as the chair of Recorded Music and was that department’s inaugural chair in 2003/4. She also served as chair of the Graduate Film Program in 2001/2.As faculty in the departments of Art and Public Policy and Undergraduate Film & Television, her courses include: Anatomy of Difference: The Other in Film, The World Through Art, Language of Film, and Conventional Steps to Unconventional Image-Making: Close Reading which she co-taught. She received Curricular Development Challenge Grants for two courses: Issues in Contemporary African-American Cinema (taught in 1992-1995) and The Summer Film & Video Program for High School Students (designed in collaboration in 1995). She is a frequent lecturer whose more recent presentations include: a live online debate about the movie Precious with Stanley Crouch; a webcast on Media and the Black Family – the Genocide Called Entertainment; a webchat on America.gov about democracy and film with filmmakers at the American Embassy in Bogota, Colombia; The Double Down Film Show; The Other in Bush World USA; and Black Representations and Media.
Dr. Antonio serves as an advisor and lecturer for various projects including: The NAACP’s 100 Years 100 Films, the Top 100 Films of the Century; The William H. Cosby Future Filmmakers Workshop; the Ghetto Film School; The Cinema High School; and the NAACP. She has been interviewed for television, radio, and print, including: Studio 360: Girls on Film; WNYC 93.9FM; Orpheus: to Hell and Back; and Carpe Diem a magazine show produced by Montclair State University for Comcast and Cablevision.
Dr. Antonio is the author of Contemporary African American Cinema, 2001. Her other published works include: Do Hollywood Films Truly Reflect Life in America in You Asked “living book” on America.gov; a feature essay for the inaugural issue of Black Camera: The Urban-Rural Binary in Black American Film and Culture, Indiana University Press Volume 1, Issue 1; New Black Cinema: When Self-Empowerment Becomes Assimilation, Bertz Verlang, 2006; and Matriarchs, Rebels, Adventurers, and Survivors: Renditions of Black Womanhood in Contemporary African American Cinema, Sight & Sound, Supplement, July 2005.
