David Desser

David Desser (born 1953){{cite web|title=Desser, David|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/n83201680|work=Library of Congress Authorities|accessdate=10 February 2012}} is emeritus professor of cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and former director of that university's Unit for Cinema Studies.{{cite web|last=Lynn|first=Andrea|title=U. of I. Cinema Expert Offers Commentary on New Release of Seven Samurai|url=http://news.illinois.edu/news/06/0914samurai.html|publisher=University of Illinois|accessdate=10 February 2012}} He is an expert in Asian cinema, particularly the cinema of Japan, as well as in Jewish cinema. He is the former editor of Cinema Journal,{{cite web|title=U.S. Film Periodicals|url=http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC38folder/USfilmMags2.html|work=Jump Cut|accessdate=10 February 2012}} which is published by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the world's largest organization of scholars of cinema and media.{{cite web|title=Kaplan Honored for Career in Cinema and Media Studies|url=http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/happenings/?p=2167|work=Stony Brook Happenings|accessdate=10 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605010405/http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/happenings/?p=2167|archive-date=5 June 2010|url-status=dead}} He is currently co-editor of the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema.