Nora M. Alter Read Bio Collapse
Nora M. Alter is a scholar of comparative film and media arts at Temple University. She has published widely on German and European Studies, Film and Media Studies, Cultural and Visual Studies, and Contemporary Art. Alter has written on a wide range of contemporary artists and filmmakers. She is author of several books including Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (1996), Sound Matters (2004), Chris Marker (2006), and most recently The Essay Film after Fact and Fiction (2018). She has written the companion essay to the Video Data Bank’s Martha Rosler Crossings. Alter has a forthcoming book on Harun Farocki.