Steven Jacobs (1967) is an art historian specialized in the interactions between film and the visual arts. His other research interests include the visualization of architecture, cities and landscapes in film and Belgian modern art. He is (co-)author of The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock (2007), Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts (2011), The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir (2013), Screening Statues: Cinema and Sculpture (2017), The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars (2018), Art in the Cinema: The Mid-Century Art Documentary (2020), and Marcel Broodthaers and Film: A Second of Eternity (2024). In addition, he has published in journals, edited volumes and exhibition catalogues. He has curated film programs for the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, CINEMATEK Brussels, Art Cinema OFFoff, and other organizations and venues. He currently teaches history of modern art at the Department of Art History, musicology, and theater studies at Ghent University and film history at the Department of Letters at the University of Antwerp.
