Dennis Rothermel (Ph.D. Northwestern University) Dennis Rothermel received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. His areas of specialization are Aesthetics of Cinema, Kant and Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy. He joined the faculty at California State University, Chico in 1981, served as department chair from 1997-2002, and again beginning in 2006. He served as Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Undergraduate Education from 2002-2004. The classes he teaches include Human Existence, Food and Film, and Philosophy and Film. His current research interests lie in the intersection of philosophy and cinema. His recent publications include an essay on The Piano, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Pianist, and Hero in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video; "Slow Food, Slow Film," also in the QRFV, and book chapters on Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men, Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, John Ford's My Darling Clementine, Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, "Julie Taymor’s Musicality,” and “Anti-War War Films." He has also co-edited a volume of essays authored by members of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace, which is forthcoming from Rodopi.
HUMN 380, Food and Film, Schedule of Film Showings -- Spring 2010
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