GREG KAHN
Lecturer

International/American Films

Office: COM 124E
Phone: 594-4204
gkahn@san.rr.com

Growing up as a teenager in Santa Monica during the 1960's afforded great opportunities to experience cutting edge and counter-culture art, music, theater, and film.  Experiencing works by Ginsberg, Cage, Rothko, Bergman, Fellini, Zappa, et al. presented a way of "seeing," an aesthetic consciousness.  Continuing at SDSU in 1970, several professors in Comparative Literature, Sociology, and Women's Studies helped set a context for this aesthetic sensibility, as well as introduce me to progressive ways of teaching.  Between my college years and current teaching stint at SDSU, my 13 years as the film curator at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art helped shape my views of cinema as art.  These three chapters - exposure to art and world cinema as a teenager, having incredible professors at SDSU, and working at an esteemed contemporary art museum - have contributed to my approach to teaching during my 18 years as a lecturer in the TFM department.  It is the biography of a professor's aesthetic consciousness and his teaching sensibility.