Barton Byg teaches German literary and cultural studies as well as film studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is founding director of the DEFA Film Library and a founding faculty member of the University of Massachusetts Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies. His publications focus on the cinema and cultural legacy of the former GDR, the films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, documentary film, and Cold War culture. As a Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor from 2005 to 2008 he has also taught at Hampshire and Smith Colleges (Brecht and World Cinema, Landscape and Film, Color and Film).
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Volume 28, 2011 - Issue 2
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