Fine Arts Department

John Michalczyk

boston college fine arts department

John Michalczyk

Professor/Chair
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617-552-4295 (main office)

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1972

Fields of Interest:
Film history (European/Latin American) and film production (Documentary filmmaker); socio-political art/literature/film; genocide/Holocaust studies; Irish Studies.

Academic Profile
Professor Michalczyk has been teaching at Boston College since 1974. His courses primarily deal with literature, art and film in a socio-political context. Since 1992, he has produced 9 documentary films for PBS television and national and international distribution. These deal with historical events such as World War II and the Holocaust, as well as situations of conflict resolution, be it in Northern Ireland or Israel.

Publications

Books:

  • The Resisters, the Rescuers, and the Refugees
    (Sheed & Ward, 1997)
  • Medicine, Ethics, and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues
    (Sheed & Ward, 1994)
  • Italian Political Filmmakers
    (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986)
  • Costa-Gavras: The Political Fiction Film
    (Arts Alliance Press, 1984)
  • The French Literary Filmmakers
    (Arts Alliance Press, 1980)
  • Ingmar Bergman: La Passion d'être homme aujourd'hui
    (Beauchesne, Paris, 1977)
  • André Malraux's Film Espoir
    (University, Miss., 1977)

Chapters

  • "The Ethics of Nazi Human Experimentation" in John Pawlikowski's Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust (2002).
  • "Inspiration for the Partisan Priest in Rossellini's Open City" in Jeffery Howe et al's The Plume and the Palette (2001)
  • "The Dice are on the Carpet: BBC Propaganda and the French Resistance)" in Marilyn Matelski's Messages from the Underground (1997)

Articles

  • On film and its relation to literature and the arts in: American Society, Legion of Honor; Annali d'Italiansistica; Cineaste; Cinéma (Paris); Cinema and Society (Paris); Contemporary French Civilization; Current Research in Film; French Review; Literature/Film Quarterly; Magill's Cinema Annual; Mélanges Malraux Miscellany; Stanford French Review; Twentieth Century Literature

Book Reviews

  • America, French Review, Revue André Malraux

Guest Editor

  • Special Issue: Religion and the Arts "Art and the Holocaust" (2000)
  • Special Issue:North Dakota Quarterly "Malraux and Hemingway: Embattled Spain" (1992)

Guest Film Curator

  • Museum of Fine Arts (Boston): "Costa-Gavras: The Political Thriller and Beyond" (Programming and Catalogue, 1989)

Film Production (Producer/Director/or Scriptwriter)

  • Different Drummers: Daring to Make Peace in the Mideast
    Premiere: Museum of Fine Arts (2003)
  • Displaced:Miracle at St. Ottilien
    Premiere: Cherry Hill, New Jersey (2002)
  • Michael's Eagle Eyes
    Premiere: Boston College (2002)
  • Celtic Waves: Irish Emigration
    Premiere: Museum of Fine Arts (2002)
  • South Africa: Beyond a Miracle
    PBS, Co-Producer; Cinema Guild, Dist. (2001)
  • Unexpected Openings: Northern Ireland Prisoners
    PBS,Co-Producer; Cinema Guild, Dist. Emmy nomination (2000)
  • Prelude to Kosovo: War and Peace in Bosnia and Croatia
    PBS; Cinema Guild, Dist.; Search for Common Ground/Tour selection (1999)
  • Out of the Ashes: Northern Ireland's Fragile Peace
    PBS ; Cinema Guild, Dist. (1998)
  • December's Dilemma: The Creche, the Dreidel, and the Star"
    PBS; Etole Prod., Dist.(1997)
  • In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine
    PBS, First Run Features, NY, Dist. Emmy Nomination (1997)
  • Of Stars & Shamrocks: Boston's Jews & Irish
    PBS; Natl. Center for Jewish Film, Dist. Emmy Nomination (1995)
  • The Cross and the Star: Jews, Christians, and the Holocaust
    First Run Features, NY (1992)
  • Fidelity Not Mutual:25 min.
    Screened at Athens, Ohio Film Festival (1988)
  • Fred Wiseman: Filming the American Institution : 28 min. (1986)

The Films of John Michalczyk

In Production:
  • "I'm in Here!" (Series on Disabled)

Film Script:

  • Feature Script: Black Diamond (1989/1997)

Film Critic:

  • Cannes Film Festival for French Review (1978, 1979, 1981)

Board of Directors:

  • Documentaries International Film Foundation (D.C.)/Foundation for Moral Courage (1994-2002)

Awards/Honors:

  • Directory of American Scholars; Contemporary Authors; Fulbright (Italy); Mellon (Costa-Gavras); "Palmes Académiques" (French Govt.); IREX (US Govt./Poland); TASH (The Assoc. for the Severely Handicapped) Distinguished Media Award for "Nazi Medicine" documentary; Emmy Nominations (3)