Steven Jay Schneider
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Steven Jay Schneider is an American film and philosophy scholar, best-known for his 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.
He is the author and editor of numerous books on world cinema, most notably the horror genre. He is also a consultant for film, television, and home video/DVD production companies and a curator for world horror film programs.
Steven was born January 25, 1974 in New York City and attended Hunter High School before completing BAs in Philosophy and English at the University of California at Berkeley. He then did an MA in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London with a focus on the philosophy of psychoanalysis and a study of the relationship between Descartes' Meditations and Saint Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises. His interest in the philosophy of film led him to seek dual PhDs at Harvard and at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is currently working on his dissertation at NYU, tentatively entitled "Designing Fear: Toward an Aesthetics of the Cinematic Uncanny."
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