Associate Professor

Ph.D., Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
MA, Film Studies, University of British Columbia
BA, English/Film & Communications, McGill University
Office: SBH 314
905-688-5550 x6397
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Anthony Kinik is a film studies professor whose areas of specialization include documentary film, experimental film, and cinema’s complex relationship with the urban environment.
Together with Steven Jacobs and Eva Hielscher, he co-wrote and co-edited the collection The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars (Routledge 2019). This book is the most comprehensive study to date on this remarkable international cycle of experimental documentaries. The year it was published, The City Symphony Phenomenon inspired a comprehensive film retrospective at Anthology Film Archives in New York City called “City Symphonies.” In the spring of 2021, The City Symphony Phenomenon was released in paperback format.
Kinik was a community radio disc jockey in Vancouver and Montreal for nearly a decade and he remains passionate about popular music in many of its varieties to this day. This fascination with popular music was channeled into a course that he began offering in 2021: FILM 3R90 Sound + Vision: The Rockumentary.
He is also an avid food enthusiast. His food blog “…an endless banquet” , one of the very first in Canada, celebrated its 20th anniversary in the fall of 2024, and his food writing has appeared in Food & Wine, Gourmet, The Montreal Gazette, and elsewhere.
Since joining the CPCF Department in 2016, Kinik has been a member of the Brock University Film Society’s programming committee, and he’s served as an animator and facilitator for the Mighty Niagara Film Festival since 2023.
In June 2024, Kinik had the opportunity to attend a conference on “Islands and Audio-Visual Media” in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. The paper he presented there was expanded into an essay that was published in the most recent issue of the journal Shima: “The Beluga Triangle: Pour la suite du monde (1962), New Quebec Cinema, and the Urban/Rural Dialectic.”
He is currently working on a book on 1960s Montreal as a cinematic city.
I’m interested in supervising projects in the areas of:
- documentary representation
- cinema and the city
- Quebec national cinema
- experimental & avant-garde cinema
- film & popular music
- Kinik, A. (2021), “Errol Morris, The New York Times, and Op-Docs as Pop Docs,” Reclaiming Popular Documentary, eds. Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
- Kinik, A. (2021), “Minimum and Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Rockumentary Form, Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury, eds. Gunnar Iverson and Scott Mackenzie, Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
- Kinik, A., Steven Jacobs, and Eva Hielscher, eds. (2019), The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars, New York and London: Routledge/American Film Institute Film Readers.
- Kinik, A. (2019), “Sparling’s Canadian City Symphonies,” The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars, eds. Steven Jacobs, Anthony Kinik, and Eva Hielscher, New York and London: Routledge/American Film Institute Film Readers: 187-196.
- Kinik, A. (2019), “Van Dyke and Steiner’s The City,” The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars, eds. Steven Jacobs, Anthony Kinik, and Eva Hielscher, New York and London: Routledge/American Film Institute Film Readers: 197-207.
- Kinik, A. (2016), “Walkers in the City: Literature, Film, and the Figure of the Flâneur in New York City,” New York, New York!: Urban Spaces, Dreamscapes, Contested Territories, ed. Sabine Sielke, Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag.
- Kinik, A. (2014), “Celluloid City: Montreal and Multi-screen at Expo 67,” Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67, eds. Janine Marchessault and Monika Kin Gagnon, McGill-Queen’s University Press.
- Documentary film
- Authorship & auteurism
- Film genres
- Film & popular music
- Film history & theory