Daniel Rudin, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor Communication
- Assistant Professor English
Daniel Rudin is an artist-scholar focused on the “Left” and “state,” including 20th century documentary film and the New Philippine Cinema. His art practice explores dividing lines between documentary and experimental video, while his journalistic work has focused on labor issues. 聽He is currently developing an article on Philippine alternative film, a study of Lino Brocka and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and a short film about labor in the Philippines.
Expertise
- Film and digital media
- Film studies
- Philippine studies
Courses
- Introduction to Video Production
- Introduction to Audio Production
- Introduction to Film Studies
Selected Publications
- 鈥淢etaphor, Database, History: Towards a Documentary Research Method for Filmmaker-Scholars.鈥� In Interactive Narratives鈥擳he Evolution of Storytelling in the Digital Age. New York: Routledge, forthcoming, 2025.
- 鈥淪treaming the Nation: Salvaging the National Filipino Audience.鈥� In Streaming in the Global South. Edited by Hadi Gharabaghi and Shakti Jaising. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025.
- 鈥淭he Left in the Philippines: A century of counterrevolution.鈥� Platypus Review 172 (December 2024).聽
- 鈥淗istoricizing twenty-first century documentary: A review of Jihoon Kim’s Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary and Kate Nash’s Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-media Age. Studies in Documentary Film,鈥� Studies in Documentary Film (2023) DOI: 10.1080/17503280.2023.2270945
- 鈥淒emocracy and the Left in the Philippines.鈥� Sublation Magazine, August 7, 2022.
- 鈥淐ounter/Public: The Politics of Committed Film in the Philippines.鈥� Interactive Film & Media Journal, 2(2).聽.
- 鈥淒ocumentary as Archival Database: A Montage Approach to Reading History.” Pelikula Magazine, Vol. 6 (December 2021).聽.
