Dr Nick Hodgin
Lecturer
Bowland North
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YN
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My research and teaching interests lie primarily in the field of cultural studies (especially visual culture) with a particular interest in identity and community studies, and memory studies. My research has hitherto been in twentieth century and contemporary German studies and film studies. My monograph, Screening the East: Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989 (Berghahn Books, 2011), traces the emergence and representation of a separate post-communist east German identity and the various responses to unification, looking at how these are mediated in film specifically, and, more broadly, in popular culture (museum/exhibition studies, developments in literature, advertising).
Career Details
After an MA in Film Studies during which time I lived in Germany where I conducted research into early GDR film (DEFA), I moved to Sheffield to conduct doctoral research into contemporary German film. I have taught German and film studies at the universities of Sheffield, Liverpool and Manchester.
Research Interests
My current research projects focus on:
- visual culture and subversion in the GDR
- DEFA (East German cinema)
- international film and history in context
- Berlin and film
My wider research interests include film aesthetics, film reception and marketing, film history, film theory, World Cinema, and underground film.
External Roles
In addition to translation work, I am a reader for Camden House, and for the journals History & Memory and New Readings, and write reviews for Scope, Modern Language Review and German Studies Review. I have also given talks on film at the Irish Film Institute, and by Screen Education.
Current Teaching
I teach German Studies and Film Studies on the following modules:
GERM 100/101:German Part I
GERM 201: German Language: written and reading skills
GERM 233: Becoming German: identity-formation in modern German society and culture
DELC 212: Cinema and Society in Europe and Latin America:
GERM 354: Culture and Politics in the GDR
2011
Aiming to Please?: consensus and consciousness-raising in Wolfgang Becker's Good bye, Lenin
Hodgin, N. 2011 In: New directions in German cinema. Cooke, P. & Homewood, C. (eds.). London: I B Tauris, p. 93-112. 22 p. (Tauris world cinema series).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
The GDR remembered: representations of the East German State since 1989
Hodgin, N. (ed.) & Pearce, C. (ed.) 2011 Rochester: Camden House. 300 p. (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Screening the Stasi: the politics of representation in postunification film
Hodgin, N. 2011 In: The GDR remembered: representations of the East German State since 1989. Hodgin, N. & Pearce, C. (eds.). Rochester: Camden House, (Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Screening the East: Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989
Hodgin, N. 16/05/2011 Oxford: Berghahn Books. 224 p. (Film Europa).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2010
Eastern blues, southern comforts: searching for Heimat in the Bayous
Hodgin, N. 2010 In: Mississippi Quarterly . 63, 3-4, p. n/a.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2007
‘Marginalised Subjects, Mainstream Objectives. Insights on Outsiders in Contemporary German Film’
Hodgin, N. 2007 In: New Readings. 8, 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2004
‘Berlin is in Germany and Good Bye, Lenin! Taking Leave of the GDR?’
Hodgin, N. 05/2004 In: Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 12, 1, p. 25-46. 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
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