ד"ר עידו לויט
משרד המנכ"ל
מידע כללי
Ido Lewit
2016-2021: Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University
Film and Media Studies Program/ Department of German Languages and Literatures
Dissertation: “Toward a Media-Technological Approach to Films: Meaning-Making, Objects, and Procedures” (Advisor: Brigitte Peucker; Committee: Brigitte Peucker, Dudley Andrew, Rüdiger Campe, Gertrud Koch)
2010-2013: Master of Arts (Summa Cum Laude), Tel Aviv University
Department of Film and Television
Thesis: “The Kafkaesque Absurd in the films of the Coen Brothers” (Advisor: Nitzan Ben-Shaul)
2004-2008: Bachelor of Arts, Tel Aviv University
Department of Film and Television, Department of Philosophy
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
2011-2012: Bachelor of Arts, Tel Aviv University
Musicology
2008-2010: Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Jazz Department
Research Interests
German cinema
Media theory
Intermediality in film
Classic film theory
Franz Kafka
Music and literature in film
Publications
EDITED VOLUMES
Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image. London & New York: Wallflower Press/ Columbia University Press, 2016. (Co-edited)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“The Coroner and the Real: Death, Media, and ‘Deep Truth’ in the Films of Werner Herzog,” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61.3 (Spring 2022). Forthcoming
“The Tableau Vivant and the Intermedial Clash: Temporality and Power-Dynamics in Fassbinder’s Fontane Effi Briest,” Literature/ Film Quarterly Vol 50, No. 1 (Winter 2022; ISSN 2573-7597).
“‘He Couldn’t Tell the Difference between The Merry Widow and Tristan and Isolde’: Kafka’s Anti-Wagnerian Philosophy of Music,” The Polish Journal of Aesthetics 53.2 (2019): 109-123. DOI: 10.19205/53.19.6
“Traces in the Snow: Fargo, between the Wasteland and the Home,” Fireflies: Journal of Film and Television, Vol. 01: Cities, Spaces, Journeys, eds. Anat Zanger and Nir Ferber (2018): 150-163.
“TV’s Fargo and the Philosophy of the Coen Brothers,” Film and Philosophy 21 (2017): 17-30 (co-authored).
“Orson Welles’s The Trial and The Problem of Interpretation after the Holocaust,” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 37-38 (2013-2014): 115-126.
“The Kafkaesque Cinematic Language of the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man,” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 33-34 (2009-2010): 29-38.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Life in the Black Lodge: The Twin Challenge of Watching Twin Peaks,” in The Politics of Twin Peaks, eds. Amanda DiPaolo and Jamie Gillies. London: Lexington Books, 2019, 177-192 (co-authored).
“‘When the Still Image Projected on the Screen Bursts into Movement”: Cinematic Space-Time in Kafka’s ‘A Country Doctor’,” in Kafka after Kafka: Dialogical Engagements with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism, eds. Iris Bruce and Mark Gelber. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2019, 155-170.
“‘This is not Nothing’: Viewing the Coen Brothers through the Lens of Kafka,” in Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image, eds. Shai Biderman and Ido Lewit. London & New York: Wallflower Press/ Columbia University Press, 2016, 258-278.
“Introduction,” in Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image, ed. Shai Biderman and Ido Lewit. London & New York: Wallflower Press/ Columbia University Press, 2016, 1-25 (co-authored).
BOOK REVIEWS
“The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America by Johannes von Moltke,” Film Quarterly 70.4 (2017): 131-133.
NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
“Becoming Whale: The Transformation of the Human in Castaing-Taylor’s Leviathan.” Takriv: Journal of Documentary Film Studies. 7, 2014 (Hebrew)
“The ‘No’ under the ‘Yes’: Reflections on Bertolt Brecht’s Der Jasager.” in Pe’imot: Journal of Music and Culture. Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2013, 235-240. (Hebrew)
“Between Wonderland and Tel-el-Kebir.” Takriv: Journal of Documentary Film Studies. 6, 2013 (Hebrew)
“Ethics of the Documentary Machine: Reflections on Errol Morris’s The Fog of War and Mr. Death.” Takriv: Journal of Documentary Film Studies. 5, 2013 (Hebrew)
“Between Wadi Rushmia and the Grand Canyon: Time as an Alternative in Amos Gittai’s Wadi Trilogy.” Takriv: Journal of Documentary Film Studies. 3, 2012 (Hebrew)
“Die Diaspora schlägt zurück: Zeitgenössische israelische Musik und die Suche nach alternativen Identitäten,” Springerin. 18.1 (2012): 14-15.
“Documenting as a Fairytale.” Takriv: Journal of Documentary Film Studies. 2, 2011 (Hebrew)
“Realität des Simulakrums: Zum Genre des animierten Dokumentarfilms,” Springerin. 17.1 (2011): 10-11.
