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Affiliated Research Students
GEOFF BROWN
Birkbeck, European Cultures and LanguagesModes of Relationality in the Later Cinema of Claire Denis
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Asibong
The
research will look at how Denis’ later films connect with and address
aspects of kinship, community and relationality.
Methodological and theoretical perspectives will include close engagement with contemporary philosophies of kinship, relationality and community, exemplified in the writings of Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Giorgio Agamben. Music theory and soundtrack theory will occupy a key role in this project.
The project will focus particularly on the films L’Intrus (2005), 35 Rhums (2008) and White Material (2009).
PAULINE EATON
Birkbeck, European Cultures and LanguagesSupervisor:
Dr Andrew Asibong
Pauline Eaton deals with the complex representation of mothers and mothering in the work of Marie NDiaye.
Deleuze and Guattari Continued: Perspectives on Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the 21st Century
Pauline Eaton deals with the complex representation of mothers and mothering in the work of Marie NDiaye.
JOHN GIBB
Birkbeck, European Cultures and LanguagesDeleuze and Guattari Continued: Perspectives on Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the 21st Century
Supervisor:
Dr Nathalie Wourm
John
Gibb's starting point is to show the limits (and the scope) of Deleuze
&
Guattari's conception of capitalism; from this he expands the concept
to
embrace its consequences - Nietzsche and the future.
CHANTAL QUIQUINE
Birkbeck,
European Cultures and Languages
Supervisor:
Dr Andrew Asibong
Chantal
Quiquine, considers spectral, melancholic and behavioral traces of
enslaved African women in the novels of Maryse Condé.
KAMIL ZAPASNIK
Birkbeck, European Cultures and LanguagesExploring European Identity through European Cinema
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Asibong and Dr Joanne Leal
My research seeks to investigate the question of European identity in relation to European cinema. I will focus on contemporary German and French film in order to examine the way European cinema portrays and discusses the question of European identity. My research will seek to analyse the importance of the discourse of memory and divergences between Eastern and Western Europe in regard to the process of creating a community of Europeans.
My research will seek to explore the problem of European identity in regard to the process of European unification. It will focus on the question of the identity of Europe as a community. Furthermore, it will undertake an investigation of the role that European cinema plays in the process of creating a European identity.
My project will focus on French and German-language cinema, including the works of Michael Haneke, Claire Denis, Fatih Akin, Hans Schmid and Krzysztof Kieslowski.