James Leo Cahill
Cinema Studies Institute Faculty
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Canada
Biography
Dr. James Leo Cahill, Working at Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto, Canada Dr. James Leo Cahill, Working at Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto, Canada
Research Interest
James Leo Cahill’s research focuses on French cinema, documentary and experimental media, and critical theory. He has a special interest in scientific cinema and animals and moving image media. His first book, Cinema’s Copernican Vocation: Zoological Surrealism and the Early Films of Jean Painlevé, is forthcoming in 2018 from the University of Minnesota Press. He is beginning a project on the postwar French cinema and literature of exploration and its conceptualizations of the world, the globe, and globalization in the contexts of collaboration, colonialism, and coca-colonisation as well as a project on media temporalities.
