2016-2021: Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University
Film and Media Studies Program/ Department of German Languages and Literatures
2010-2013: Master of Arts (Summa Cum Laude), Tel Aviv University
Department of Film and Television
2004-2008: Bachelor of Arts, Tel Aviv University
Department of Film and Television, Department of Philosophy
Cinema and Technology
German cinema
Media theory
Intermediality in film
Classic film theory
Franz Kafka
Music and literature in film
(2026) A.1 Lewit, Ido. From Doors to Screens: Cinematic Incorporations of Technology. SUNY Press. .
EDITORIAL WORK
Lewit, Ido (with Shai Biderman). Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image. London: Wallflower Press, 2016.
Lewit, Ido. “Dr. Mabuse Today: The Centennial of Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler.” Screen 64.1 (2023): 82-124 (dossier section).
Lewit, Ido (with Brigitte Peucker). New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch: A Light Touch. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
B. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
B.1. Lewit, Ido. “The Kafkaesque Cinematic Language of the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man.” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 33-34 (2009-2010): 29-38. 2 Citations.
B.2. Lewit, Ido. “Orson Welles’s The Trial and The Problem of Interpretation after the Holocaust.” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 37-38 (2013-2014): 115-126. 2 Citations.
B.3. Lewit, Ido (with Shai Biderman). “TV’s Fargo and the Philosophy of the Coen Brothers.” Film and Philosophy 21 (2017): 17-30. 1 Citation.
B.4. Lewit, Ido. “Traces in the Snow: Fargo, between the Wasteland and the Home.” Fireflies: Journal of Film and Television 01: Cities, Spaces, Journeys, eds. Anat Zanger and Nir Ferber (2018): 150-163.
B.5. Lewit, Ido. “‘He Couldn’t Tell the Difference between The Merry Widow and Tristan and Isolde’: Kafka’s Anti-Wagnerian Philosophy of Music.” The Polish Journal of Aesthetics 53.2 (2019): 109-123. DOI: 10.19205/53.19.6. 2 Citations.
B.6. Lewit, Ido. “The Coroner and the Real: Death, Media, and ‘Deep Truth’ in Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Grizzly Man,” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61.3 (Spring 2022): 82–106. Doi:10.1353/cj.2022.0025. IF 0.41; Q1.
B.7. Lewit, Ido. “The Tableau Vivant and the Intermedial Clash: Temporality and Power- Dynamics in Fassbinder’s Fontane Effi Briest.” Literature/ Film Quarterly 50.1 (Winter 2022); ISSN 2573-7597. IF 0.00; Q3.
B.8. Lewit, Ido. “Rethinking Inside and Outside: The Door in Ernst Lubitsch’s When I Was Dead (1916) and Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer (1917),” Film-Philosophy 27.1 (2023): 79-97. DOI: 10.3366/film.2023.0218. 7 Citations; IF 0.32; Q1.
B.9. Lewit, Ido. “Dr. Mabuse Today: The Centennial of Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler. Introduction.” Screen 64.1 (2023): 82-86. IF 0.30; Q2.
C. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Published
C.1. Lewit, Ido (with Shai Biderman). “Introduction.” In Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image, ed. Shai Biderman and Ido Lewit. London: Wallflower Press, 2016, 1- 25.
C.2. Lewit, Ido. “‘This is not Nothing’: Viewing the Coen Brothers through the Lens of Kafka.” In Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image, eds. Shai Biderman and Ido Lewit. London & New York: Wallflower Press/ Columbia University Press, 2016, 258-278.
C.3. Lewit, Ido. “‘When the Still Image Projected on the Screen Bursts into Movement’: Cinematic Space-Time in Kafka’s ‘A Country Doctor’.” In Kafka after Kafka: Dialogical Engagements with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism, eds. Iris Bruce and Mark Gelber. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2019, 155-170.
C.4. Lewit, Ido (with Shai Biderman and Ronen Gil). “Life in the Black Lodge: The Twin Challenge of Watching Twin Peaks,” in The Politics of Twin Peaks, eds. Amanda DiPaolo and Jamie Gillies. London: Lexington Books, 2019, 177-192.
C.5. Lewit, Ido. “Regulating the Gaze and the Voice for a Cinema in Transition: The Merry Jail and So This Is Paris.” In New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch: A Light Touch, eds. Brigitte Peucker and Ido Lewit. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024, 179- 194.
C.6. Lewit, Ido (with Brigitte Peucker). “Introduction.” In New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch: A Light Touch, eds. Brigitte Peucker and Ido Lewit. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024, 13-30.
G. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
G.1. Lewit, Ido. “The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America by Johannes von Moltke.” Film Quarterly 70.4 (2017): 131-133. 2 Citations. Impact Factor 0.31; Q1. (Book Review)
