Benjamin Lazar
English - Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies, PhD
Achieved Degrees
- MA in Cinema Studies, San Francisco State University
- BA in Media Studies, Film Studies and Philosophy, University of San Francisco
Interests
- Traumatic experiences and media
- Media history
- Psychoanalysis
- Digital cultures
Conference Presentations
- "Sitting in the Waiting Room: On the Experiences of Boredom and Waiting with Media” to be presented at Backward Glances Graduate Conference, Northwestern University, 2024
- “On Loss of Location: Notes from Three Cinemas” presented at the San Francisco State Graduate Conference: “Relocating Cinema”, San Francisco State University, 2022
- “‘this time there’s no going back. something big is coming.’ An Examination of the Mourning of Jeffrey Epstein” presented at Creative Activity and Research Day, University of San Francisco, 2020