Ed Guerrero

Ed Guerrero is an American film historian and associate professor of cinema studies and Africana studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. His writings explore black cinema, culture, and critical discourse. He has written extensively on black cinema, its movies, politics and culture for anthologies and journals such as Sight & Sound, FilmQuarterly, Cineaste, Journal of Popular Film & Television, and Discourse. Guerrero has served on editorial and professional boards including The Library of Congress' National Film Preservation Board.

Education and career In 1972, Guerrero earned both a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from San Francisco State University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Filmmaking & Aesthetics from San Francisco Art Institute. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley in 1989. He was valedictorian.

He has served on the National Film Preservation Board since 1988.

Works Exhibitions 1998: "Paul Robeson: Star of Stage and Screen", curated for the Rutgers Paul Robeson Centennial Project, retrospective at the UCLA Film & Television Archives (with Charles Musser, Mark Reid). 1999: "Borderlines: Paul Robeson and Film", curated for MoMA (with Charles Musser).

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