Michael Rowin is a freelance writer who has contributed film and book reviews, articles, and interviews for Film Comment, Cineaste, Brooklyn Magazine, Reverse Shot, Moving Image Source, Time Out, Salon, Stop Smiling, LA Weekly, Interview, Indiewire, and the Criterion Collection. He writes about culture in in-depth yet accessible prose, explaining the stylistic and dramatic value of entertainment that ranges from the popular to the avant-garde. In May 2016 Rowin received his PhD in Film and Media Studies from the University of Florida. He has presented papers at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference and the Norman Mailer Society Conference, and in April 2016 completed his dissertation, which analyzes the role of noise in the work of Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and David Lynch.