Release date: April 8, 2008
Contact: Beverly Cox Clark at 404-712-8780 or beverly.clark@emory.edu

IMAGE Honors Emory Film Studies Professor

Emory University film studies professor Matthew Bernstein was honored April 8 at the 2008 IMAGE Film Awards Gala, an annual celebration of film culture held at Atlanta's Fox Theater. The fund-raising event recognizes the achievements of individuals and organizations that have made noteworthy contributions to Atlanta’s cultural life, the film industry and the community.

Bernstein was recognized for both his academic work in film studies and his efforts to promote film in and around Atlanta, including his guidance of the Atlanta chapter of the Key Sunday Cinema Club, which provides biweekly sneak preview film screenings, often months before they are released.

IMAGE (Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc.) Film & Video Center is dedicated to building and supporting a strong media arts community in Atlanta and the Southeast by promoting the production, exhibition and public awareness of film and video as artistic forms of individual expression.

Bernstein currently is chair and director of graduate studies for Emory's film studies department. He researches and teaches courses on Hollywood, Japanese cinema, nonfiction film, postwar European cinema and African-Americans in film. Bernstein has written several books, including "Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and TV," which will be published in early 2009 by the University of Georgia Press, and he is working on books about Michael Moore and the history of film-going in Atlanta. He also serves on the editorial board of Cinema Journal, the Journal of Film and Video and is book review editor for Film Quarterly.

Emory University (www.emory.edu) is one of the nation’s leading private research universities and a member of the Association of American Universities. Known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities, Emory is ranked as one of the country's top 20 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, the state's largest and most comprehensive health care system.

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