Atlanta is chock full of interesting “movers and shakers” – some bent on creativity, activism and/or just plain having fun and living the good life. Lean in to hear some of the “off the cuff” remarks as to what makes Matthew Bernstein, PhD, tick.
Matthew H. Bernstein is the Goodrich C. White Professor of Film and Media at Emory University, where he teaches courses on film history and criticism. He is the author of “Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television” (2009), and “Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent” (1994; 2004), a biography of a major producer in the classical era.
The editor or co-editor of four anthologies on topics ranging from John Ford westerns to film censorship, Bernstein is a two-time recipient of NEH research grants as well as teaching and scholarship awards from the prestigious Society for Cinema and Media Studies. From 1998 to 2020, he hosted the popular Atlanta Cinema Club. He has served in leadership roles in the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival since 2006. From 2005 to 2020, he served on the National Film Preservation Board, advising the Librarian of Congress on matters of preservation as well as films to add to the National Film Registry. He is currently co-writing a history of the Columbia Pictures studio and a study of Atlanta film culture in the segregated era.
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Matthew earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA from Columbia University. He and his wife, Natalie, the former elementary school librarian at the Paideia School, moved to Atlanta in 1989. They are proud parents of two sons residing in Amsterdam and Atlanta. Members of The Temple, they love to travel, especially to film festivals, or curl up with a good bottle of wine and binge watch.
And who has even heard of the movies this “master of all things film” lists as favs?
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