Alain J.-J. COHEN - Ph.D. (UCLA) Primary Office: Contact Department Primary Phone: Contact Department Email: ajjcohen@ucsd.edu Website: http://myprofile.cos.com/cohen05

Professor of Comparative/French Literature & Film Studies: Psychoanalysis (from Freud and Lacan to the present); Cinema (analysis, history, æsthetics); Semiotics (Peirce to Greimas); Applied Semiotics (art, narratology, digital special f/x); history of æsthetics; French philosophy (phenomenology, structuralism, postmodernism) Cohen’s research deals with psychoanalysis, the semiotics of the filmic image through art history, and the digital age. He has published 90-odd scholarly research articles (cf. sample recent "pubs" below) and presented 230 papers around the world. Recent Publications: "Oliver Stone's JFK and Ralph Greenson's Psychoanalysis of Marilyn. Three Theses on the Synergy between History and Mythology." Cinéma et Histoire/ Cinema and History. ed. M. Stokes & G. Menegaldo, Paris: Michel Houdiard. 2008. 333-346. “Towards a Psychoanalytic Perspective on Angelic and Counter-angelic Agencies.” Documenti di lavoro 373-374-375. La parte dell’angelo 2.  Urbino:Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e Linguistica. 2008. 56-62. Les autres arts dans l’art du cinéma. D. Sipière & A. J.-J. Cohen (ed.). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007. Introduction by A. J.-J. Cohen & D. Sipière. “Scorsese peintre. Losey musicien. Kubrick chorégraphe." “Cinéma et Peinture. Figures et abstractions.”  Les autres  arts dans l’art du cinéma. 15-30. [cf. above] “The Art of the Nude in Cinema. Kubrick, Godard and Greenaway.” Visio. The Journal of the International Association for Visual Semiotics 10, 3-4 (2005)  493-505.  “Kubrick. The Filmmaker as Philosopher. Film Form Film Sense Revisited.” IJGLSA, Interdisciplinary Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 10.2 (2005): 203-230. “Simulacres. Lire Baudrillard à l'ère filmique numérique.” Métaphores d'Epoque 1985-2000. Ed. F. Ferreira & D. Mellier. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005. 187-205. “L'Io Lacaniano nell'era digitale.” [The Lacanian `I' in the Digital Age.] Psiche. Rivista di Cultura Psicoanalitica XII. 1 «Contaminazioni» (2004):107-117. “Woody Allen and Freud.” Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the Movies. Ed. J. Brandell. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. 127-145. “Three Dangerous Liaisons. Letter LXXXI filmed by Vadim, Forman, Frears.” IRIS  A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound, «Film Adaptation: Methodological Questions, Aesthetic Questions» No. 30 (2004): 55-71. “Semiotics of Virtual Reality Films.” Visio.  9. 1-2 (2004): 271-280. “Simulacri del cinema culinario.” Del gusto e della fame. Teorie dell'alimentazione. Ed. B. Antomarini & B. Biscuso. Montag Book Coll. Roma: manifestolibri, 2004. 180-186. “Twelve Monkeys, Vertigo and La Jetée: Postmodern Mythologies and Cult Films.” New Review of  Film and Television Studies, 1.1 (2003):146-163 “Dr Jekyll  and Mr  Hyde de Mamoulian. Morphing postmoderne. Portraiture baroque.” R. L. Stevenson & A. Conan Doyle. Aventures de la Fiction, ed. G. Menegaldo & J. P. Naugrette. Rennes: Terre de Brume. 2003: 393-407 “De l'épistémè moderniste a  l'épistémè numérique. La mise-en-corps 1900. La mise-en-corps 2000.” Homo Orthopedicus. Le corps et ses prothèses à   l'époque (post) moderniste. Ed. N. Roelens & W. Strauven. Paris: Editions L' Harmattan, 2002. 401-412. “Blade Runner as Filmic Critique of Postmodern Judgment.” Lo Sguardo degli Angeli. Intorno e oltre Blade Runner. Ed. P. Bertetti & C. Scolari, Torino: Testo & Immagine, 2002. 3-30. “Piero della Francesca's 'Flagellation'. The painter as filmmaker' (English version with variations of It. article/ Il Cannocchiale). Visio 5.4, «State of the Image») (2001): 99-111. “Kubrick: Ethique et esthétique de la Voix Off.” Puissances de la voix. ed. S. Badir & H. Parret, Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges. 2001: 189-203 “Greek models for postmodern times. Foucault and Lacan on ethics and the arts of existence.” Dalhousie French Studies. 54: (2001)105-114 “Kubrick's The Shining. Semiotics of the Labyrinth.” Semiotics 2000, eds. S. Simpkins & J. Deeley, New York and Ottawa: Legas Press. 2001: 183-197 “A Clockwork Orange de Kubrick. La violence et la règle.” L'hospitalité: signes et rites, ed. A. Mantandon. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2001: 257-267 “Virtual Hollywood and the Genealogy of its Hyper-Spectator.” Hollywood spectatorship. Changing perceptions of cinema audiences, ed. M. Stokes, R. Maltby, London: British Film Institute Publications. 2001: 152-164 “Semio-Cybernetics of Visual Memory.” IJGLSA, Interdisciplinary Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis. 5, 2 (2000) 230-244