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Jeffrey Midents
Jeffrey Middents is an Associate Professor of Literature at American University, where he studies and teaches film and world literature. His 2009 book, Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru, investigates the historical place of cultural writing within a national discourse by tracing how Peruvian cinema was shaped by local film criticism. Professor Middents has also published essays on a variety of other topics, including documentary aesthetics in the work of Chilean film-maker Particio Guzmán, Peruvian director Luis Llosa's films made under producer Roger Corman, Spanish short films, and the racial complexities of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.