Professor Don Kunz of the English Department teaches film studies courses in the adaptation of literature to film, film genres, cinematic auteurs, and occasional special topics like cinematic representations of American business culture. He has published a variety of articles on film as literature or as cultural commentary and has edited a collection of essays, The Films of Oliver Stone. His published articles have focused on the adaptation of printed narrative and drama to film, fictional movies about college life, and cinematic representations of the Vietnam War. Professor Kunz is a founding member of the Literature/Film Association and a contributing editor to the academic journal Literature/Film Quarterly. During his sabbatical in 2001 he earned a "Four-Week Film School" certificate from the International Film and Television workshops where he made a 30-second commercial in 16 mm and a short narrative film in digital video, Divorce Talk. After this accelerated film school training, he returned to URI to make a ten minute documentary/public service film in digital video, South County Habitat for Humanity. Professor Kunz has served as a judge for the Rhode Island International Film Festival, an enterprise founded by one of his first film students at URI, George Marshall. Another of his students, Fred Joyal (URI, 1978), is the primary sponsor of URI's annual film/video festival, Visualizations, now in its 6th year.

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