Linda C. Ehrlich is an independent scholar who has published extensively about world cinema and about traditional theatre.
Her books include:
Cinematic Reveries (2013),
The Cinema of Víctor Erice: An Open Window (2007), and the co-edited
Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinemas of China and Japan (reprint 2008). Her commentaries appear on the Criterion DVD of
The Spirit of the Beehive (
El espíritu de la colmena, dir. Víctor Erice) and the Milestone Film and Video 25th-anniversary DVD/blu-ray of
Maborosi (dir. Kore-eda Hirokau). In addition, she is an award-winning poet.
Dr. Ehrlich has taught at Duke University, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Tennessee/Knoxville, and on two Semester-at-Sea voyages. She has lived in Japan for more than five years, and has interviewed the director twice.