Ira Jaffe

Ira Jaffe is founder and former chair of the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of New Mexico.

He is the author of "Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action" (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2014) and "Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) as well as co-editor (with Diana Robin) of "Redirecting the Gaze. Gender, Theory and Cinema in the Third World" (State University of New York Press, 1999).

His essay titled "Errol Morris's Forms of Control" appears in "Three Documentary Filmmakers" (ed. William Rothman, State University of New York Press, 2009); other essays include "Citizen Kane: Film as the Narration of Space" in "Perspectives on Citizen Kane" (ed. Ronald Gottesman, G.K. Hall & Co., 1996).

Jaffe's email address is irasjaffe@gmail.com.