Daniel Bernardi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetDaniel Bernardi
American media scholar
Date of Birth: 16-Jun-1964
Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
Profession: scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Daniel Bernardi
- Daniel Leonard Bernardi (born June 16, 1964) is the Director of the Veteran Documentary Corps and a Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University.
- He is the former Interim Dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts, Chair of the Cinema Department, Director of the Documentary Film Institute, and founder of El Dorado Films.
- Bernardi earned a Bachelor of Arts in Radio-TV (1984) and a Masters of Arts in Media Arts (1988) from the University of Arizona.
- He went on to earn a PhD in Film and Television Studies from UCLA (1994).
- He completed a University of California postdoctoral research fellowship in 1997. His main academic interests are media studies, cultural studies, narrative theory, critical race theory, and rumors as narrative IEDS.
- His work in media, which is perhaps most well known, emphasizes whiteness as a historical formation of meanings.
- Borrowing from Michael Omi and Howard Winant's theory of racial formation, he argues that whiteness is a historically powerful set of meanings that serves to either implicitly or explicitly dominate the shifting and reforming meaning of race in U.S.
- media. Bernardi is also a filmmaker.
- His work focuses on telling the veteran story through documentary modes of filmmaking.
- One of his more recent films, The American War (2018), tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the Vietcong.
- The trailer can be viewed on YouTube.
- An upcoming feature, armed with newly discovered archival footage, is The War to End all Wars: And its American Veterans [1] presents a more holistic depiction of the American experience in World War I and its immediate consequences at home.
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