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Senior Lecturer
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I currently teach on the following courses:
CULT334: Ideology and Politics in the Cinema
CULT311: Film Theory
Cult 212: Film, Modernism and the Avant-Garde
Cinema and History (MA course)
Film theory
Film and philosophy
Hollywood cinema
Romantic comedy
French film
Politics and film
My research focuses on the intersection between theory, culture and the image, with a particular focus on film. I have just published Cinema After Deleuze(Continuum, 2012). Last year I published The Reality of Film (Manchester University Press, 2011) which examines theories of film by Andre Bazin, Christian Metz, Stanley Cavell, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Ranciere. I am currently finishing off a book on the relation between film and contemporary political philosophy called A New Politics of Cinema (Palgrave-Macmillan). I have also recently published What is Film Theory? (Open University Press).
I have published articles on Jean Renoir, Baz Luhrmann, Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, on Demme's The Silence of the Lambs, on Ridley Scott'sGladiator, on Hitchcock's Spellbound, and others. In 2008 I co-organised a conference on the films of Catherine Breillat, held in London. I will be holding a two day symposium on Cinema and Deleuze on the 17-18 July, 2012. David Martin-Jones, John Mullarkey, Bill Marshall and Patricia McCormack, among others, will be attending.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Cinema After Deleuze(Continuum, 2012)
- The Reality of Film: Theories of Filmic Reality(Manchester University Press 2011)
- you can read a short review here:http://www.filmireland.net/2011/01/17/the-reality-of-film-theories-of-filmic-reality/;
- read an extensive review by Warren Buckland from the 'New Review of Film and Television':http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17400309.2011.585876 -(only for subscribers);
- a nice review on Amazon.com:http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Film-Theories-Filmic/dp/0719082684/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321262053&sr=1-5
- or find details here:http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1204740
- What is Film Theory? An Introduction to Contemporary Debates, (co-authored with Gary Bettinson), Open University Press / McGraw-Hill (2010) - for more information see:http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335234232.html
- A New Politics of Cinema: Film and Contemporary Political Theory (Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming)
- Special Issue on the films of Catherine Breillat(co-edited with Lynsey Russell-Watts) of the Journal for Cultural Research (January 2010) - contents listed at:http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g918677714
-Deleuze Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, July 2011 − special issue on Schizoanalysis and Visual Culture; co-edited with Phillip Roberts.
-'The Rebirth of the World: Cinema According to Baz Luhrmann', in David Martin-Jones and William Brown (eds.), Deleuze and Film, Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
-'Post-Classical Hollywood Realism and "Ideological Reality"', Cinephile 7 (2), Fall 2011, pp. 15-23.
-'A Deleuzian Imaginary: On the Cinema of Jean Renoir', Deleuze Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2011.
-'Christian Metz', in Felicity Colman (ed.), Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, Acumen, 2009, pp. 266-275.
- 'Acknowledgement and Unknown Women: The Films of Catherine Breillat' in theSpecial Issue onCatherine Breillat(co-edited with Lynsey Russell-Watts) of theJournal for Cultural Research(January 2010) [see above]
- 'Deleuzian Spectatorship', Screen Vol. 50, No. 1 (2009) - here:http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/1/45.short?rss=1&ssource=mfc
- 'Passions and Actions: Deleuze's Cinematographic Cogito', Deleuze Studies vol. 2, no. 2, 2008.
- Review of Filmosophy by Daniel Frampton and The Real Gaze by Todd McGowan, in Screen 49:2, Summer 2008, pp. 222-227.
- 'Absorption and theatricality in the cinema: some thoughts on narrative and spectacle', Screen Vol. 48, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 109-112.
- 'The New Film Studies and the Decline of Critique', CineAction 72, 2007, pp. 2-7.
- 'Three Modes of Terror: Transcendence, Submission, Incorporation', Nottingham French Studies 46:3, 2007, pp 109-120.
- 'Douglas Sirk's Theatres of Imitation', Screening the Past 21: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/21/douglas-sirk-theatres-imitation.html
- 'The perversion of The Silence of the Lambs and the dilemma of The Searchers: on psychoanalytic "reading"', Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 10 (3), December 2005.
- 'Review of Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema; Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory', Screen 46:2, Summer 2005
- 'Response to Mark B.N. Hansen's "Affect as medium, or the 'digital-facial-image'"', journal of visual culture, 3 (3), December 2004, pp. 353-357; online at: http://vcu.sagepub.com/content/vol3/issue3/
- 'Early, classical and modern cinema: absorption and theatricality', Screen 45: 3, Autumn, 2004.
- 'The Psychoanalytic Structure of Trauma: Spellbound', Journal for Cultural Research 8: 3, July 2004.
- 'Filmic Realization', Journal for Cultural Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2003.
- 'Cinema's double: some reflections on Metz', Screen 43:2, Summer 2002.
- 'What Can a Face Do? On Deleuze and Faces', Cultural Critique 51, Spring 2002; online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cul/toc/cul51.1.html
- 'Narrative and Spectacle in Gladiator', CineAction 56, 2001.
- 'Reading Three Colours: Blue', Senses of Cinema online journal, November 2000; available online at: http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/blue.html
- 'Capital Women', Theory & Event 6.1; available online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tae/toc/archive.html#6.1