Biography
Over thirty years at Temple, Jeff Rush taught screenwriting, adaptation, video game writing, interactive narrative and scene analysis. As chair, he led the development of the first FMA Bachelor of Fine Arts programs. His main academic interest is in the film/filmmakers narrative perspective as contrasted to that of the characters. He has written extensively on screenwriting, literature, serial long-form television, television ethics, video games, script doctoring, narrative theory and the philosophy of metaphor, and has published in major film, literature and video game journals including The Quarterly Review of Film and Video; Wide Angle; The Journal of Film and Video; The Journal of Screenwriting; Studies in American Jewish Literature; and Games and Culture. Along with Ken Dancyger and Jessie Ket, he is the co-author of Alternative Scriptwriting (Taylor & Francis, 2023) which is now in its sixth edition.
In retirement, he is learning blues guitar and has co-founded the Philadelphia Heidegger Study group. He is currently writing about Heidegger and the later films of Wim Wenders.