Faculty of Liberal Arts
Assistant Professor
Film and Media Studies
BA, University of Michigan
MFA, University of Virginia
MA, University of Virginia
PhD, University of Virginia
Email: holtzman[at]sophia.ac.jp
Tell: 03-3238-4064
Office: 10-634
My research in global and transnational film studies focuses on French/Francophone and Japanese cinemas, documentary, ecocinema, and nuclear culture. Current interests include film production across linguistic and national borders and the environmental impacts of filmmaking and emerging technologies.
I teach courses on global cinema, film history and theory, cultural exchange in filmmaking, and media and the environment. I also teach a Core course on critical thinking.
Books
・Through a Nuclear Lens: France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima. (SUNY Press, 2024)
Book Chapters
・“Les Français ne savent pas où me mettre: situer les petits portraits japonais de Michaël Ferrier” in Michaël Ferrier, un écrivain du corail, ed. Fabien Arribert-Narce (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021), 161-178
Journal Articles
・“Introduction: A language not their own: transnational production in ‘foreign’ dialogue.” (co-authored with Gemma King) Transnational Screens 17.1 (2026): 1-6. (open access)
・“The global auteur and poetic vérité in La Vérité (Kore-eda Hirokazu, 2019).” Transnational Screens (2025) (open access)
・“Chris Marker’s Ecological Consciousness, or 36 Views of the Train in Tokyo.” French Screen Studies, 22.4 (2022): 251-270.
・“Les Français ne savent pas où me mettre: Placing Michaël Ferrier’s petits portraits from Japan.” French Studies 73.4 (2019): 561–577.
Faculty of Liberal Arts
INTRODUCTION TO FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
STUDIES IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
SEMINAR IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
Graduate Program in Global Studies
FILM AND MEDIA
ADVANCED STUDIES IN FILM AND MEDIA