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| Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen's book, Black Out, focuses on her specialty, film noir. (Photo by Josh Hopkins University Press) |
Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen is a film professor at Rowan University and the author of Black Out: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir. She teaches classes like American film directors and film history, but her favorite is her specialty, film noir. As a film historian, Biesen has a trained eye. She can spot a bad print as soon as it graces a screen, and the overexposure that often comes with film restoration makes her cringe. To her, there's nothing like the look and feel of a pristine 35 millimeter print on the big screen. I spoke with her this week about the ongoing film vs. digital debate and although she is understandably critical of the use of digital projection, I found her surprisingly open to new methods of distribution like streaming. Listen to what she had to say here:
