MA (1994) and PhD (1999) in Film Studies, University of Rochester (USA).

BA (1986) and MA (1994) in English Literature, University of Manitoba (Canada).

Film Programmer for the George Eastman House (Rochester, NY, 1995-98).

Visiting Professorships, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India (2011, 2017).

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

•  Non-Western political and art cinemas
•  Transnational cinemas
•  Exploitation cinemas
•  The history of film studies

Mark Betz has supervised PhD theses on several topics, and welcomes enquiries concerning projects in any of his research areas. For more details, please see Mark's full research profile.

Teaching

• Postwar global cinemas
• Cinema, film and (trans)nationalism
• Third Cinema
• Film theory and historiography
• Film and authorship
• Film and popular music

Selected Publications

• Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
• “High and low and in between,” Screen 54, no. 4 (Winter 2013)
• “Beyond Europe: On Parametric Transcendence,” in Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories, ed. Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• “Little Books,” in Inventing Film Studies, ed. Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson (Duke University Press, 2008)