Assistant Professor
Film and Video Production - Film Studies

Office: 220 Lake Superior Hall
Email: [email protected]

Navid Darvishzadeh is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies in GVSU’s Department of Visual and Media Arts. His research and teaching interests include film theory, Deleuze and cinema, world cinema, feminism and queer theory, and post-colonial studies. His publications have appeared in New Cinemas, Film-Philosophy, Visual Anthropology, and Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television. He is the book reviews editor of Film International. In his role as the managing editor of In Media Res, he co-edited several Special Issues focused on "The State of Film Theory," "The Contemporary Streaming Style," "Critique and the Moving Image," and "Labor and the Moving Image."

• FVP 123: Survey of Media Production Modes
• FVP 348: Film Theories

• “The Snowman (1994–1998).” In Screening Adult Cinema, Routledge, 2025, pp. 221-229.
• “Cinema of Dissimulation: Deleuzian Powers of the False and Benjaminian Erfahrung in Iranian Modern Cinema.” New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, vol. 21, no 1, 2023, p. 47-62, https://doi.org/10.1386/ncin_00040_1
• “The Off-screen Caught in Becoming.” In Media Res: The Off-Screen, March 27, 2023. http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/screen-caught-becoming
• “Montage/Composite/Exchange II.” In Media Res, April 29, 2024 - May 5, 2024. https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/montagecompositeexchange-ii
• “Critique and the Moving Image I.” In Media Res, November 27, 2023 - December 3, 2023. https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/critique-and-moving-image-i
• “From Screen to Pleat: Deleuzian Inflections in Visual and Media Discourses.” In Media Res, November 6, 2023 - November 12, 2023. https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/screen-pleat-deleuzian-inflections-visual-and-media-discourses
• “The Contemporary Streaming Style III.” In Media Res, October 16, 2023 - October 22, 2023. https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/contemporary-streaming-style-iii
• “The State of Film Theory: Rhythm Image, Content Warnings, Close Reading, Feminist Archives, Interbeing.” In Media Res, March 13, 2023 - March 19, 2023. http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/state-film-theory-rhythm-image-content-warnings-close-reading-feminist-archives-interbeing