Naomi Greene

After a year of teaching in New York City, Naomi Greene joined the faculty of the French and Italian Department at UCSB and remained there until her retirement in 1995.

Although her initial focus was on contemporary French theater she found herself increasingly drawn to what was then the new field of cinema studies. She has been particularly interested in the relationship between film and the social, cultural and political context. Along with colleagues from the departments of English, Spanish, Italian, and Philosophy she helped found the Film Studies Program in the early 1970s. The Program eventually became a department and is now the Department of Film and Media Studies. 

From 1985 to 1989 she chaired the Film Studies Program, and 1990 to 1991 she chaired the Department of French and Italian. 

Among her publications are the following books: 

• Antonin Artaud: Poet Without Words. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.
• Foghorn. Translation of Poems by Jacques Temple. Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971.
• René Clair: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985.
• Cinema and History.  Annotated translation with introduction and stills of book by Mark Ferro.  Wayne State University Press, 1988.
• Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema as Heresy.  Princeton University Press, 1990.
• Landscapes of Loss: The National Past in Postwar French Cinema. Princeton University Press, 1999.
• The French New Wave. (Short Cuts). Wallflower Press/Columbia U Press, 2007.
• From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda: Images of China in American Film. University of Hawaii Press, 2014.