Dr Bruce Bennett

Lecturer in Film Studies

Degree:BA Hons Fine Art (Leeds) MA Critical and Cultural Theory (Cardiff) PhD Film Theory (Lancaster)
Associated research centres and groups:Film, Greater Middle East and Islamic Studies Network, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living
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Bruce Bennett

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Current Teaching

POSTGRADUATE (PhD)

I am currently supervising the following PhD projects:

  • Real Person Fanfiction and online fan communities -Anna Martin
  • Situations of Absence, Silence and Invisibility in Women's Cinema - Rona Murray
  • First-person documentary and affect-Imogen Robertson

I have supervised the following PhDs:

  • Terror/Democracy: An iconology (Dr Katherine Harrison, University of Chester - graduated 2009)
  • Rethinking Film and Television through the made-for-TV movie (Dr Alex Simcock, University of Nottingham- graduated 2009)
  • Film and theatre in post-martial law Taiwan (Dr Dominique Ying-chih Liao, National Chung-Hsing University (Taiwan) - graduated 2008)

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I am interested in working with students in any area of cinema, film studies, screen studies or visual culture, but have particular interests in:

  • Hollywood cinema
  • British cinema
  • Transnational cinema
  • Early cinema
  • Film, politics and class
  • Visual culture and climate change

Research Interests

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

Journal articles (single-authored)

  • BENNETT, B. (2010) 'Framing terror: cinema, docudrama and the "war on terror"', Studies in Documentary Film, vol. 4, no. 3, December 2010, pp. 209-226
  • BENNETT, B. (2008) 'Cinematic perspectives on the "war on terror": The Road to Guantanamo and activist cinema', New Cinemas, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 111-126

Journal articles (co-authored)

Book chapters

  • BENNETT, B. (2012 - forthcoming), 'X-Ray Visions: photography, propaganda and Guantanamo Bay', in ATTWOOD, F., CAMPBELL, V., HUNTER, I., LOCKYER, S., eds., Controversial Images, London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan
  • BENNETT, B. (2012), 'Lu Chuan', in Bettinson, G, ed.,Directory of World Cinema: China,Intellect (ISBN: 9781841505589)
  • BENNETT, B. (2008) 'Children and robots, technophobia and cinephilia' in BENNETT, B., FURSTENAU, M., MACKENZIE, A., eds. Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices, London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN 978-0230524774), pp. 168-182
  • BENNETT, B., TYLER, I. (2007) 'Screening Unlivable Lives: the New Cinema of Borders', in IMRE, A., MARCINIAK, K., O'HEALY, A., eds., Transnational Feminism in Film and Media: Visibility, Representation and Sexual Differences, London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN 978-1403983701)
  • BENNETT, B. (2007) 'Very Un-British Films: Michael Winterbottom and the Cinema of Incompatibility' in LIU, Y, ed., Rereading Britain Today: Essays in British Literary and Cultural Studies, Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language University Press, pp. 285-299 (ISBN 978-7-5446-0417-8)
  • BENNETT, B. (2007) 'Towards a General Economics of Cinema', in BRUCE, S. and WAGNER, V. eds., Fiction and Economy, London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 167-186 (ISBN 978-0-230-00524-2)
  • SHaH (writing group) (2003) 'How It Feels', in ARTHURS, J. and GRANT, I., eds., Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and The Material, Bristol and Oregon: Intellect Books, pp. 23-34 (ISBN 1-84150-071-2)

Reviews and Reports

  • BENNETT, B. (forthcoming) Review of Katarzyna Marciniak, Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile and the Logic of Difference, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, in Feminist Theory
  • BENNETT, B. (2007) Review of Vivian Sobchack, Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004 in Feminist Review, Vol. 85, No. 1, 136-8, March, 2007 (ISSN: 0141-7789)
  • BENNETT, B. (2004) Review of Mary Anne Doane, The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, The Archive, Cambridge, MA. And London: Harvard University Press, 2002, Screen, Vol. 45, No. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 461-466 (ISSN 0036-9546)
  • BENNETT, B. (2003) 'High Theory: A report on the Figuring Addictions/Rethinking Consumption conference, 4-5 April, 2002, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University', Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, Feb. 2003 (ISSN 1465-9166) (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/conrep/conferences-feb-03.htm)
  • BENNETT, B. (2000) 'Misrecognizing Film Studies': Review of Bordwell, David and Noel Carroll, Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 5, Feb. 2000 (ISSN 1466-4615) (http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol4-2000/n5bennett)
  • BENNETT, B., TYLER, I. (1999) 'Report on 1998 Screen Studies Conference', Screen, Vol. 40, No. 1, 1999, 96-100 (ISSN 0036-9546)
  • BENNETT, B. (1999) Review of Richard Dyer, White, (London: Routledge, 1998), Parallax, Vol 5.1, Mar. 1999 (ISSN 1353-4645)

Exhibition notes

  • BENNETT, B. (2001), '"Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land'": Darren Andrews' Pleasureland (2010)' - notes to accompany an exhibition by photographer Darren Andrews at the Dukes arts centre, Lancaster

Dictionary Entries

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:

  • I am currently completing a critical study of the work of British director Michael Winterbottom for Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, entitled, The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy and Terror.
  • I am working on a project on the comedy of terror, and have recently given a paper on the topic at a conference on TV comedy and gender at Northumbria University. Entitled, 'Gary's war on terror: television comedy and soldiers' stories', this was focused on an analysis of the UK TV series, Gary: Tank Commander.
  • I am also working on a paper on James Cameron and 3D cinema for the SCMS conference in Boston later this year where I will be speaking on a panel with Allison de Fren and Katarzyna Marciniak. This will explore questions of cinema technology and aesthetics and representational politics with particular reference to Cameron's four 3D films.

ePrints

Articles

Tyler, Imogen and Bennett, Bruce (2010) Celebrity chav : fame, femininity and social class. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 13 (3). pp. 375-393. ISSN Online ISSN: 1460-3551 Print ISSN: 1367-5494

Bennett, Bruce (2008) Cinematic perspectives on the 'war on terror' : the road to Guantanamo (2006) and activist cinema. New Cinemas : Journal of Contemporary Film, 6 (2). pp. 111-126. ISSN 1474-2756

Bennett, Bruce and Tyler, Imogen (1999) Report on 1998 Screen studies conference. Screen, 40 (1). pp. 96-100. ISSN Online ISSN 1460-2474 - Print ISSN 0036-9546

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