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Dr Gary Bettinson
Lecturer in Film Studies
Department: Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Degree: PhD Film Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury
Associated research centres and groups: Film
Current Teaching
Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema (Convenor)
Film Theory
Independent Research Disserations
Film Cultures
Documentary Cultures (Convenor)
Introduction to Film Studies (Convenor)
Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema (MA)
Cinema and History (MA)
Research Interests
My research interests include approaches to film aesthetics, in particular neoformalism and historical poetics; studies of individual film authors; Hong Kong cinema and Asian filmmaking in general; and American independent and mainstream cinema. Recent and forthcoming publications include:
Directory of World Cinema: China. (Editor) Intellect, 2012.
"Act of Vengeance: An Interview with David Chiang." Post Script 31:1 (Fall 2011), 3-11.
"Warren Beatty: A Hollywood Career." Film International (November 2011). http://filmint.nu/?p=3357
"The Shaw Brothers Meet Hammer: Coproduction, Coherence, and Cult Film Criteria." Asian Cinema 22:1(Spring/Summer 2011), 122-137.
"The Departed," in Lincoln Geraghty (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood (Intellect Books, 2011). http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1841504157/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d3_i3?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1JMDTCK23PBZERM9MZ00&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294
"Eraserhead: Comprehension, Complexity, and the Midnight Movie," in Francois-Xavier Gleyzon (ed.), David Lynch/ In Theory (Charles University Press, 2010). http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/lynch.html
"David Lynch and the Cinema d'Auteur / An Interview with Michel Chion" (with Francois-Xavier Gleyzon), in Gleyzon (ed.), David Lynch/ In Theory (Charles University Press, 2010).
What is Film Theory? An Introduction to Contemporary Debates (with Richard Rushton). McGraw Hill: Open University Press, 2010. For more information see: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335234232.html
"Happy Together? Generic Hybridity in 2046 and In the Mood for Love," in Warren Buckland (ed.) Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema (Blackwell 2009). http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405168617.html
"Reappraising Always." New Review of Film and Television Studies 7:1 (Special issue on Steven Spielberg, March 2009), 33-49.
"New Blood: An Interview with Soi Cheang." Journal of Chinese Cinemas 2:3 (Autumn 2008), 211-224.
"Effects of the Dominant in Secret Window." New Review of Film and Television Studies 6:2 (August 2008).
"Made in Hong Kong, In the Mood for Love, and the Metaphysics of Melodrama." Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society (Winter 2007).
"Reflections on a Screen Narcissist: Leslie Cheung's Star Persona in the Films of Wong Kar-wai." Asian Cinema 16:1 (Spring/Summer 2005), 220-38.
"Penning Dramatic Chance: Adaptation, Dürrenmatt, and The Pledge." Film Studies: An International Review 5 (Winter 2004), 66-79.
Associated Keywords: Aesthetics, Art cinema, Asian cinema, Blockbuster cinema, Chinese cinema, Cinema, Cinematic narration, Cognition, Cognitive film theory, Crime films, Dramaturgy, Early cinema, Emotions and affect, Film, Film adaptation, Film authorship, Film noir, Film studies, Film style, Film theory, Genre fiction, Historical poetics, Hollywood cinema, Hong Kong cinema, Japanese cinema, Neoformalism, Screenplays, Storytelling
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Room: County Main, B161
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Lancaster University
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United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 1524 510851
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