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 Alan Spiegel is Professor of English and  
 James Agee and the Legend of Himself (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1998). 
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 From 1976 to 1983 he was the regular film critic for the quarterly, Salmagundi. From 1990 to 1999 he was director of the Graduate Humanities (MAH) Program at SUNY / Buffalo. He regularly teaches courses in Popular Culture, the American Novel, and American Film History. At present he is at work on a study of the dance impulse in the non-dance film 
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In addition to his books, Spiegel has
contributed numerous articles and review- essays on the novel, film, and modern
literature to a variety of academic journals and anthologies.
 
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