Professor of French, Chair of the Department of European Languages and Literatures, and a member of the Ph.D. Programs in French and Music at the CUNY Graduate Center . He is an expert on film music, and his book Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music (University of California Press, 1994) is one of the standard texts in the field. He has also written extensively on both film and film music for diverse magazines and journals. A selected anthology of his column "Film Musings," which appeared in Fanfare from 1983 - 2001, is in press with Scarecrow Press. He also edited the pioneering anthology on the work of Jean-Luc Godard, Focus on Godard (Prentice Hall, 1972). He is currently writing a book on entitled Images of Images: Myth, Lacan, and Narrative Cinema.