Daniel Rudin, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor Communication & Film Studies
  • Assistant Professor English

Contact

email
rudind@lemoyne.edu

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.  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

  • “Metaphor, Database, History: Towards a Documentary Research Method for Filmmaker-Scholars.” In Interactive Narratives—The Evolution of Storytelling in the Digital Age. New York: Routledge, forthcoming, 2025.
  • “Streaming the Nation: Salvaging the National Filipino Audience.” In Streaming in the Global South. Edited by Hadi Gharabaghi and Shakti Jaising. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025.
  • “The Left in the Philippines: A century of counterrevolution.” Platypus Review 172 (December 2024). https://platypus1917.org/2024/12/02/the-left-in-the-philippines-a-century-of-counterrevolution/
  • “Historicizing 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,” Studies in Documentary Film (2023) DOI: 10.1080/17503280.2023.2270945
  • “Democracy and the Left in the Philippines.” Sublation Magazine, August 7, 2022. https://sublationmedia.com/democracy-and-the-left-in-the-philippines/
  • “Counter/Public: The Politics of Committed Film in the Philippines.” Interactive Film & Media Journal, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v2i2.1582.
  • “Documentary as Archival Database: A Montage Approach to Reading History.” Pelikula Magazine, Vol. 6 (December 2021). https://www.pelikulajournal.com/volumes.