KeywordsAesthetics, 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 Research AreasContemporary Arts and Performance  Dr Gary BettinsonLecturer
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Email: Email Hidden Current TeachingContemporary Hong Kong Cinema (Convenor) Film Theory Independent Research Disserations Film Cultures Documentary Cultures Media, Film, and Cultural Studies Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema (MA) Cinema and History (MA) Research InterestsMy 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. I am Editor-in-Chief of Asian Cinema journal (published bi-annually). 2012Directory of World Cinema: ChinaBettinson, G. (ed.) 2012 Bristol: Intellect Press. 232 p. Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book 2011Warren BeattyBettinson, G. 2011 Movies in American History: an encyclopedia. DiMare, P. C. (ed.). Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, Vol. 1 Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary The Shaw Brothers Meet Hammer: Coproduction, Coherence, and Cult Film CriteriaBettinson, G. 2011 In: Asian Cinema. 22, 1, p. 122-137, 16 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article Warren Beatty: A Hollywood CareerBettinson, G. 8/11/2011 In: Film International. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article The DepartedBettinson, G. 2011 Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood. Geraghty, L. (ed.). Bristol: Intellect Press, Vol. 1, p. 69-71 3 p. Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter Act of Vengeance: an interview with David ChiangBettinson, G. 2011 In: Post Script. 31, 1, p. 3-11, 9 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article 2010What is Film Theory? An Introduction to Contemporary DebatesRushton, R. & Bettinson, G. 2010 Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill: Open University Press. 211 p. Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book David Lynch and the cinema d'auteur: a conversation with Michel Chion.Bettinson, G. & Gleyzon, F-X. 2010 David Lynch / In Theory. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, p. 182-187 6 p. Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter Eraserhead: comprehension, complexity, and the midnight movie.Bettinson, G. 2010 David Lynch / In Theory. Gleyzon, F-X. (ed.). Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, p. 40-57 18 p. Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter 2009Happy Together ? Generic hybridity in 2046 and In the Mood for Love.Bettinson, G. 2009 Puzzle films: complex storytelling in contemporary cinema. Buckland, W. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, p. 167-186 20 p. Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter Reappraising Always.Bettinson, G. 03/2009 In: New Review of Film and Television Studies. 7, 1, p. 33-49, 17 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article 2008New blood: an interview with Soi Cheang.Bettinson, G. 11/2008 In: Journal of Chinese Cinemas. 2, 3, p. 211-224, 14 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article Effects of the dominant in Secret Window.Bettinson, G. 08/2008 In: New Review of Film and Television Studies. 6, 2, p. 151-167, 17 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article 2007Made in Hong Kong, In the Mood for Love, and the metaphysics of melodrama.Bettinson, G. 10/2007 In: Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, and Society. 1, 2, p. 21-39, 19 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article 2005Reflections on a screen narcissist: Leslie Cheung's star persona in the films of Wong Kar-waiBettinson, G. 2005 In: Asian Cinema. 16, 1, p. 220-238, 19 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article Reflections on a Screen Narcissist: Leslie Cheung's Star Persona in the Films of Wong Kar-wai'.Bettinson, G. J. 1/05/2005 In: Asian Cinema. 16, 1, p. 220-238, 19 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article 2004Penning Dramatic Chance: Adaptation, Durrenmatt, and The Pledge.Bettinson, G. 2004 In: Film Studies: An International Review. 5, 1, p. 66-79, 14 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article |