Joseph HOSNI

Joseph HOSNI

Instructor

Institute of Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematic Studies – Chargé de Cours

+961 (1) 421 000 joseph.hosni@usj.edu.lb

Joseph Houssni is an Assistant Professor of Cinema at Notre Dame University - Louaize - Lebanon. He holds a PhD in Cinema Television from Saint-Esprit University - Kaslik - Lebanon. He teaches film history, film theory and aesthetics, documentary filmmaking, and the semiotics of images. He is the author of Textualization" of the Real in Lars von Triers Cinema (book), Image and Word: Islam and Cinematic Form in New Iranian Cinema (religion and the arts), Contingent-Generated Documentary: The Case of Abbas Kiarostami's ABC Africa (Film International), and several other conference papers.


Areas of expertise

Art, Humanities, Religious Sciences

Publications and communications

“Textualization” of the Real in the Cinema of Lars von Trier - Noor Publishing (2016)Image Word: Islam and Film Form in the New Iranian Cinema - Religion and the Arts (Volume 27, 2023)The Contingent-Generated Documentary: The case of Abbas Kiarostami’s ABC Africa - Film International Journal (Volume 18, Number 1, March 2020)