Lloyd Michaels

Title: Professor of English; Editor, Film Criticism; Director, FS Program
Department: English
Research Fields of Interest: Film Studies, American Literature, and Jewish-American Literature
Degrees: B.A., Brandeis University, 1966; M.A., Ohio University, 1967; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1972

Contact Info

Email: lloyd.michaels@allegheny.edu
Phone: (814) 332-4333

Office Info

Office Location: Odd Fellows #225

Office Hours: FALL 2012- TBA

Courses and Syllabi
Spring 2012
English 485*00: Contemporary International Art Cinema 
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FS 102*W7: Academic Discourse II Download Syllabus

Fall 2011
English 200*12: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 304*00: Forms of the Cinema Download Syllabus
English 550*00: Jewish American Fiction Download Syllabus

Spring 2011
Engl 200*05: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
FS 102*19: Academic Discourse II Download Syllabus

Fall 2010
English 304*00: Forms of the Cinema Download Syllabus
English 465*00: Topics in 19th Century American Literature Download Syllabus
FSENG 201*01: Self-Reflexivity in Literature and Film Download Syllabus

Spring 2010 

Fall 2009
ENGL 190*00:Masters of the Modern Cinema | » Download Syllabus
FSENGL 201: reading Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 485*00:Topics in Narrative Film | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2009
ENGL 470*00: Topics in 20th-Century American Literature
FS 102W:Communication in a Discipline

Fall 2008
ENGL 203*00: Studies in American Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 304*00: Forms of the Cinema | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2008
ENGL 203*00: Studies in American Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 485*00: Topics in Narrative Film | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 200*00: Reading Literature | » Download Syllabus

Fall 2007
ENGL 304*00: Forms of the Cinema | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 550*00: Junior Seminar in Literature
FS 101:

Spring 2007 (on sabbatical)

Fall 2006 (on sabbatical)

Spring 2006
ENGL 485*00: Topics in Narrative Film | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 551*00: Reading for Thrills: Gothic Literature in the Romantic Period
FS ENG 201: Studies in Early British Literature

Fall 2005
ENGL 304*00: Forms of the Cinema | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 203*00: Studies in American Literature | » Download Syllabus
FS ENG 201: Studies in Early British Literature | » Download Syllabus

Publications

Books

  • Michaels, Lloyd. Terrence Malick. U Illinois P, 2009.
  • Michaels, Lloyd, (ed.) Ingmar Bergman’s Persona. Cambridge UP, 1999.
  • Michaels, Lloyd, The Phantom of the Cinema: Character in Modern Film. SUNY Press, 1997.
  • Michaels, I. Lloyd. Elia Kazan: A Guide to References and Resources. G. K. Hall, Boston, 1985.

Essays

  • Michaels, Lloyd. “The Confidence Man in Modern Film. ” University of Toronto Quarterly, 1993.
  • Michaels, Lloyd. “Shooting a Melon: The Target Practice Sequence in The Day of the Jackal.” Film Criticism, 1994.
  • Michaels, Lloyd. “The Thin Blue Line and the Limits of Documentary,” Post-Script, 1994.
  • Michaels, Lloyd. “Nosferatu, Phantom of the Cinema,” in Play It Again, Sam: Re-Takes on Remakes, University of California Press, 1998.
  • Michaels, Lloyd. “Come and See: Klimov’s Intimate Epic.” Quarterly Journal of Film and Video, 2008.