Malcolm Turvey is Sol Gittleman Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and Director of Film and Media Studies at Tufts University, and an editor of the journal October. He is the author of Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2008) and The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s (MIT Press, 2011). He is currently finishing a book titled “Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism.”