Chris Fujiwara

Updated May 10, 2009

Chris Fujiwara is a writer, film critic, journalist, editor, and translator. He is the author of The World and Its Double, a critical biography of Otto Preminger, published by Faber & Faber, and the general editor of the anthology Defining Moments in Movies - known in some parts of the world as Movies (Little Black Book), published by Cassell Illustrated. He is also the author of Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, with a foreword by Martin Scorsese. His next book, Jerry Lewis, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. A contributor to The Boston Phoenix, the editor of Undercurrent, and a former contributing editor of Hermenaut, Fujiwara has also written for Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, InterCommunication, Osian's Cinemaya, CinémAction, the Asahi Shimbun, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The Chicago Reader, Film International, Moving Image Source, Senses of Cinema, and other publications.

He edited the catalog for the Peter Watkins retrospective at the 2007 Jeonju International Film Festival and has contributed to numerous anthologies, including Taking Things Seriously (Princeton Architectural Press), Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics (Duke University Press), Sergei Paradjanov (Magic Cinema), The 1,001 Films You Must See Before You Die (Quintet Publishing/Barron's), Ozu 2003 (Asahi Shimbun Press), The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love (Da Capo Press), The X List: The National Society of Film Critics' Guide to the Movies that Turn Us On (Da Capo Press), The Film Comedy Reader (Limelight Editions), and The Science Fiction Reader (Limelight Editions).

His next book, Jerry Lewis, will be published by the University of Illinois Press.

Fujiwara has taught and lectured on film at Tokyo University, Temple University Japan, Yale University, Emerson College, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Athénée Français Cultural Center (Tokyo), and has participated in panel discussions and symposia on film aesthetics and criticism around the world. He has served on juries at numerous international film festivals. Fujiwara is a member of FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique), the National Society of Film Critics (USA), and the Boston Society of Film Critics.

  

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