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Current research interests
Rethinking feminist film theory. Theories of technology and aspects of technological change in film and television. The aesthetics of stillness in the moving image: avant-garde and fiction. The 'new woman' and the cinema in the late 1920s. Melodrama and world cinema
Areas of supervision
Certain aspects of feminist film theory; women and film history; technology and film history; new approaches to modernity and cinema.
Selected publications
Books
Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (London: Reaktion Books, 2006).
Edited books and journals
Experimental British Televsion, co-edited with J. Sexton (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).
Chapters in books
'Birdsong' in Sutapa Biswas, International Institute for the Visual Arts (London, 2004). 'Death Drives' in Past and Future Hitchcock, eds. R. Allen and S. Ishi-Gonzales (London: Routledge, 2004). 'Uncertainty and Reality: Inorganic Bodies', Videodreams: Between the Cinematic and the Theatrical, (Kunsthaus Graz, 2004). Also published in Becoming Human, ed. P. Sheenan (London: Praegar, 2003). 'Then and Now: Cinema as History in the Light of New Media and New Technologies', The New Brazilian Cinema, ed. L. Nagib (London: I.B.Tauris, 2003). 'Foreword' in The Couch and the Silver Screen, ed. A. Sabbadini (London: Brunner-Routledge/The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 2003). 'After word' in The New Iranian Cinema. Politics, Representation and Identity, ed. R.Tapper (London: I.B Tauris, 2002).
Journal articles
'Les quatre premiers plans de Imitation of Life', Trafic, 10 (2004).'Passing Time: Reflections on Cinema from a New Technological Age', Screen (Summer 2004). 'Jill Forbes' Les Enfants du Paradis' French Cultural Studies (October 2003). 'Detail, Digression and Death. The movies in Chris Petit's film Negative Space.' Afterall, Issue 5 (2002). 'The Problem of America; the Problem of Sound', Critical Quarterly (Autumn 2001).
Selected conference papers and presentations
Keynote speaker at the conference celebrating 'A Hundred Years of Chinese Cinema', University of Beijing and University of Shanghai, 2005. 'Ein blick aus der Gegenwart in die Verganganheit: Eine Re-Vision der feministischen Filmtheorie der 1970er Jahre' Screenwise: Film Fernsehen Feminismus (Vienna, 2004). (also published as 'Looking at the Past from the Present' Journal of the Moving Image, Calcutta, 2004.) 'Stillness in the Moving Image: Ways of Visualising Time and its Passing', Saving the Image, Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, 2003). Also published in 'Where is the Photograph?', Photoforum (2003) and Whitney Biennial Catalogue (New York, 2004).
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