COLIN MACCABE
Curriculum Vitae
Education
1976: Ph.D. University of Cambridge. Thesis title "James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word: an examination of James Joyce's practice of writing and its consequences for literary criticism."
1971-1974: Research Student and Senior Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge
1972-1973: Pensionnaire anglais, Ecole Normale Superieure, Rue d'Ulm, Paris
1967-1971: Undergraduate Trinity College, Cambridge BA Part One, Moral Sciences (Upper Second); Part Two, English (First)
1956-1966: St. Benedict's School, Ealing, London, W5
Career
1998-present: Professor of English, University of Exeter
1986-present: Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
1989-1998: Head of Research, British Film Institute
1985-1989: Head of Production, British Film Institute
1982 (Summer): Summer School, Columbia University
1981-1985: Professor of English, University of Strathclyde
1976-1981: University Assistant Lecturer in English, Cambridge University; College Lecturer and Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
1974-1976: Research Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Publications
(a) Books
The Eloquence of the Vulgar: Cinema, Language and Politics. London: BFI, 1999.
Performance. London: BFI, 1998.
Diary of a Young Soul Rebel with Isaac Julien. London: BFI, 1991. Tracking the Signifier. Minnesota: Minnesota University Press, 1985.
Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics. London: MacMillan, 1980.
James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word. London: MacMillan, 1979.
(b) Edited Books
Who is Andy Warhol? with Mark Francis and Peter Wollen. London: BFI, 1997.
New Scholarship from BFI Research with Duncan Petrie. London: BFI. 1996.
James Snead. White Screen, Black Images: Hollywood From the Dark Side with Cornel West. New York and London: Routledge, 1994.
The Linguistics of Writing with Nigel Fabb, Derek Attridge and Alan Durant. New York: Metheun, 1988.
Futures for English. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988.
High Theory/Low Culture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
The BBC and Public Service Broadcasting with Olivia Stewart. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986.
James Joyce: New Perspectives. 2nd ed. Brighton: Harvester, 1992.
The Talking Cure: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Language. London: MacMillan, 1981.
Signs of the Times: Introductory Readings in Textual Semiotics with Stephen Heath and Christopher Prendergas. Cambridge: Granta, 1971.
(c) Edited Books in Press
Gray, Piers. Stalin on Linguistics and Other Essays (with Introduction). London: MacMillan, 2000.
Cammell, Donald. Performance. London: Faber and Faber, 2000.
Snead, James. European Pedigrees/African Contagions (with Preface). Edited with Kara Keeling and Cornell West. London: MacMillan, 2001.
(d) Books Under Contract
T.S Eliot. Plymouth: Northcote House with the British Council, delivery date—April 2000.
Godard: The Authorised Biography. Farrar, Straus, delivery date—January 2005.
James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word, 2nd ed. Duke University Press, delivery date—April 2001.
(e) Books in Preparation Broken English: The History of English as a Printed Language from William Caxton to Tupac Shakur.
(f) Articles in Books
"Television and Literacy." Literacy is not Enough. Ed. Brian Cox. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. 68-75.
"Barthes and Bazin: The Ontology of the Image." Writing the Image after Roland Barthes. Ed. Jean-Michel Rabate. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 71-76.
"A Post-National European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II." Dissolving Views: Key Writings on British Cinema. Ed. Andrew Higson. London: Cassell, 1996. 191-201.
"Can English Unite a Fractured Society." Report of the Commission on Inquiry in English: Balancing Literature, Language & Media in the National Curriculum. Ed. Cary Bazalgette. BFI: London, 1994. 56-63.
"Les Medias: La mort du livre?" L'Esprit de l'europe, vol. III, Ed. Antoine Compagnon and Jacques Seebacher. Paris: Flammarion, 1993. 228-235.
"Compacted Doctrines: Empson and the Meanings of Words," with Alan Durant. William Empson. Ed. Christopher Norris and Nigel Mapp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 170-195.
"Jean Luc Godard -A Life in Seven Episodes." Jean Luc Godard: Son + image. Ed. Raymond Bellour with Mary Lea Bandy. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1992. 13-21.
"Subsidies, Audiences, Producers." New Questions of British Cinema. Ed Duncan Petrie. London : British Film Institute, 1992. 22-28.
"Colin MacCabe." Conversations with Critics. Nicholas Tredell. Manchester: Carcanet. 1994. 309- 326.
"The Revenge of the Author." Subject to History: Ideology, Class, Gender. Ed. David Simpson Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. 34-46.
"An Introduction to Finnegans Wake." James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Ed John Harty. New York : Garland, 1991. 22–32.
"The Spell of Indecision" (discussion with Franco Moretti). Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. 339-346.
"Opening Statement." The Linguistics of Writing. Ed. Nigel Fabb, et. al. New York: Methuen, 1988. 286-306.
"Defining Popular Culture." High Theory/Low Culture. Ed. Colin MacCabe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. 1 -11.
"English Literature in a Global Context." English in the World. Ed. Randolph Quirk and Henry Widdowson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. "So Truth be in the Field: Milton's use of Language." Teaching the Text. Ed. Norman Bryson and Su Kappeler. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. 18-34.
"The Voice of Esau: Stephen in the library." James Joyce: New Perspectives. Ed. Colin MacCabe. Brighton: Harvester, 1982. 111-129.
"Theory and Film: Principles of Realism and Pleasure." Literature, Society and the Sociology of Literature ed Francis Barker, et. al. Colchester: University ofEssex, l977. 59-74.
"Situation." Signs of the Times: Introductory Reading in Textual Semiotics. Eds., Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Prendergast. Cambridge: Granta, 1971. 11-16.
(g) Forewords and Prefaces
Forward to James Snead White Screens. Black Images: Hollywood From the Dark Side. Ed. Colin MacCabe and Cornel West. New York and London: Routledge, 1994. vii-xv.
Preface to Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script: The Derek Jarman Film. London : British Film Institute, 1993. 1-2.
Preface to The Geopolitical Aesthetic, Fredric Jameson. London: BFI,1992. ix-xvi.
Forward to Screening Europe: Image and Identity in Contemporary European Cinema. Ed. Duncan Petrie. London: British Film Institute, 1992. i-viii.
Introduction to Cornel West " Deconstructing Europe: A Memorial Lecture for James Snead." Critical Quarterly. 1991 Spring. 33:1. 1-2.
Forward to Stanley Aronowitz's The Crisis in Historical Materialism. 2nd ed. London: MacMillan, 1990. viii-xi.
Forward to John Healy's The Grass Arena. London: Faber and Faber, 1988. viii-xiv.
Forward to Gayatri Spivak In Other Worlds. New York: Methuen, 1987. ix-xix.
(h) In Preparation
Introduction to Georges Bataille's Eroticism. London: Penguin.
Preface to Moustapha Safouan's Speech or Death. London: MacMillan.
Introduction to Tony Tanner's Prefaces to Shakespeare. London: MacMillan.
(i) Articles in Journals
"Tanner and Shakespeare." Critical Quarterly. 41.2. l999: 68-75.
"Bayonets in Paradise." Sight and Sound. 9.2. (ns) February 1999: 11-14.
"The Case for the Consortium." Critical Quarterly. 38.1. 1996: 3-12. "On Poetry, Language, and Teaching: A Conversation with Charles Bernstein." Bartholomae, David, Lynn Emanuel, Colin MacCabe, and Paul Bove. Boundary 2. 23.3. 1996: 45-66.
"Obituary of Derek Jarman." Critical Quarterly. 36.2. 1994: iv-ix.
"Cultural Studies and English," Critical Quarterly. 34.3. 1992: 25-35.
"Throne of Blood" Sight and Sound. 1. 6 (ns) October 1991: 12-14.
"Reflections on the Cox Report." Critical Quarterly. 32.4. 1990: 87-95.
"British Film Institute: A Response." Screen. 1990 Autumn, 31.3, 322-323.
"The Revenge of the Author." Critical Quarterly. 31.2. 1989: 3-15.
"Finnegans Wake at Fifty" Critical Quarterly. 1989 Winter, 31.4: 3-5
"Abusing Self and Others: Puritan accounts of the Shakespearean stage." Critical Quarterly. 30. 3. 1988: 3-17.
"Death of a Nation: British Television in the Sixties." Critical Quarterly. 30.2. 1988: 34-46.
"The State of the Subject" Critical Quarterly. 29.4.1987: 5-8
"The Cambridge Heritage: Richards, Empson and Leavis." Southern Review 19.3. 1986/7: 242- 249.
"Broken English" Critical Quarterly. 28,1-2. 1986. 3-15.
"The Video and Television work of Jean-Luc Godard." AFI National Video Festival Catalogue. 1985: 10-13.
"Righting English" or Does Spelling Matter? Inaugural Collins English Dictionary Annual Lecture. Glasgow: Collins, 1984.
"Towards a Modern Trivium—English Studies Today." Critical Quarterly. 26. 1-2. 1984: 69-86.
"Slow Motion." Screen. 21. 3. 1981: 111-114.
"Language, Linguistics and the Study of Literature." Oxford Literary Review. 4. 3. 1981: 68- 82. Republished in Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Ed. David Lodge. London: Longman, 1988. 431-444.
"Competence and Performance: The Body and Language in Finnegans Wake." James Joyce Broadsheet. 1. 2. 1980.
"The Discursive and the Ideological in Film." Screen. 19. 4. 1979: 29-43.
"On Discourse." Economy and Society. 8.3. 1979: 279-293. "Memory, Phantasy, Identity: Days of Hope and the Politics of the Past." Edinburgh Magazine. 2. 1977: 7-13.
"Theory and Film Principles of Realism and Pleasure." Screen. 17. 3. 1976: 17-27. Republished in Narrative. Apparatus, Ideology. Ed. Philip Rosen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986: 179-197.
"A Reply" (with Ben Brewster, e.t al.). Screen. 17. 2. 1976: 110-116.
"Days of Hope." Screen. 17.1. 1976: 98-101.
"Comment" (with Ben Brewster and Stephen Heath). Screen. 16. 2. 1975: 83-90.
"The Politics of Separation." Screen. 16. 4. 1975: 46-61.
"Presentation of the Imaginary Signifier." Screen. 16. 2. 1975: 7-13.
"Walsh - an author?" Screen. 16 .1. 1975: 128-134.
"Interview with George Hoellering" (with Ben Brewster). Screen. 15. 4.
"Realism and the Cinema: Notes on Some Brechtian theses." Screen. 15.2. 1974. 7-27. Republished in Realism and the Cinema: A Reader. Ed. Christopher Williams. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980:152-162.
"Intro-diction." Cambridge Review. 95. 1974 : 86-89.
"Editorial" (with Ben Brewster). Screen. 15.1. 1974: 4-10.
"The problems of living in an interpreted world." Radical Philosophy. 2. 1972: 9-11.
"What is wrong with philosophy." Granta. 75.3. 1970: 6-7.
(j) Reviews
"Signs on the road to Utopia": Review of Before Writing: rethinking the paths to literacy by Gunther Kress. The Independent. January 25, l997.
"Word imperfect": Review of Language is Power by John Honey. The Independent. September 27, l997.
Review of Melanie Phillips All Shall Have Prizes. New Statesman. September 5, l996.
"Reluctant Paychopath": Review of My Idea of Fun by Will Self. London Review of Books. 15:19. October 7, l993.
"All that but no sign of the cattle": Review of T.S.Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks. The Guardian. November 18, l988.
"The great tradition": Review of Le cinema americain 1895-1980 by Jean Loup Bourget. Times Literary Supplement. November 18, l983. "Dissolving the Voice": Review of Writing by Tom Raworth. Times Literary Supplement. December 30, l983.
"Freedom from Father Ireland": Review of Joyce’s Politics by Dominic Manganiello. Times Literary Supplement. February 20, l981.
"Recent BFI Television monographs." Screen. 19. 3. 1978: 135-140.
"Uneasiness in Culture: Joyce Studies." Review of Ulysses on the Liffey by Richard
Ellmann. Cambridge Review. 93. 2208. 1972: 174-177.
Articles in Newspapers
"Why Carry on Cleo and Carry on up the Khyber are two of the best films ever." The Guardian. January 29, 1999.
Obituary: Professor Tony Tanner. The Independent. December 9, 1998.
"But what about the price of shoes?" New Statesman. September 25, 1998.
"End of the word?" The Guardian. July 10, 1998.
"Why I lost my faith in the welfare state." The Guardian. February 18, 1998.
Obituary: Tony Kirkhope. The Independent. June 5, 1997.
"Beware the hedgehogs of wrath." New Statesman. December 20, l996.
"Mission: (almost) impossible." Financial Times August 24th 1996
Obituary: Piers Gray. The Independent. July 1, l996.
"Reading the Screen." Prospect. May l996.
"Masters of Many Universes." Times Higher Education Supplement. March 24, 1995.
Obituary: Derek Jarman. The Independent. February 21, 1994.
"Subject to debate." Times Education Supplement. September 3, 1993.
"More Things in Heaven and Earth." Sight and Sound. March 1993.
Obituary: Tristram Barran. The Independent. September 19, 1992.
Forum: ‘Value added.’ The Guardian. August 13, 1991.
"Twenty years on, Labour still cannot pass the school’s test." The Independent. December 9, 1990.
"Eye on the future." The Guardian. March 29, 1990. "Is television about to enter the dark ages." The Listener. February 11, 1988.
"Modernism’s last exit from Cambridge." Times Higher Education Supplement. November 15, l985.
"China grits its teeth and heads into the wasteland." The Guardian. June12, 1984.
"Via form to politics." Times Literary Supplement. May 25, 1984.
"Taking the long way home." The Times. January l9, l984.
"Blueprint for democratic schools." New Statesman. September 9, l983.
"The sunset of the English empire." The Guardian. February 28, 1983.
"Complete diversity or disarray: views on the debate on literature and criticism." Times
Higher Education Supplement. February 11, l983.
"Britain’s communist university." New Statesman. May 20, l977.
"The drain on London." New Statesman. May 16, l975.
EDITORSHIPS
Since l979 I have edited, together with Stephen Heath and Denise Riley, a series for MacMillan London entitled Language Discourse Society. Where no separate American publisher is shown, MacMillan London is the publisher in the United States.
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. Interpretation as Pragmatics. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Stonebridge, Lyndsey. The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Shostak, Stanley. The Death of Life: The Legacy of Molecular Biology. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
Cowie, Elizabeth. Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Twyning, John. London Dispossessed: Literature and Social Space in the Early Modern City. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Breight, Curtis. Surveillance, Militarism and Drama in the Elizabethan Era. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
Hunt, Alan. Governance of the Consuming Passions: A History of Sumptuary Law. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
Parakrama, Arjuna. Dehegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post)colonialism. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. Tallis, Raymond. Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Ward, Geoff. Statutes of Liberty: The New York School of Poets. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Rotman, Brian. Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Minson, Jeffrey. Questions of Conduct: Sexual Harassment, Citizenship, Government.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Hunter, Ian, et. al. On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality, and Obscenity Law. 1993.
Riley, Denise, ed. Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970 – 1991. 1992.
Barrell, John. The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
Caldwell, Lesley. Italian Family Matters: Women, Politics and Legal Reform. 1991
Moorjani, Angela. The Aesthetics of Loss and Lessness. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Vincent, Jean-Marie. Abstract Labour: A Critique. 1991.
Milner, Jean-Claude. For the Love of Language. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
Aronowitz, Stanley. The Crisis in Historical Materialism. Minneapolis: University ofMinnesota Press, 1990.
Gray, Piers. Marginal Men: Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney, J.R. Ackerly. 1990.
De Lauretis, Teresa. Technologies of Gender. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
West, Cornel. The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Womack, Peter. Improvement and Romance: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands. 1989.
Ryan, Michael. Politics and Culture: Working Hypotheses for a Post-Revolutionary Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Riley, Denise. Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of Women in History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Oliver, Douglas. Poetry and Narrative in Performance. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989. Leask, Nigel J. The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge’s Critical Thought. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
Ross, Kristin. The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Trotter, David. Circulation: Defoe, Dickens and the Economy of the Novel. 1988.
Lynn-George, Michael. Epos: Word, Narrative and the Iliad. Atlantic Higlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1988.
Marin, Louis. Portrait of the King. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. The Freudian Subject. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Hunter, Ian. Culture and Government: The Emergence of Literary Education. 1988.
Aronowitz, Stanley. Science as Power: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Goodrich, Peter. Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Legal Analysis. London: Macmillan, 1987.
Doane, Mary Anne. The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940’s. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
De Lauretis, Teresa. Feminist Studies/Critical Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Bryson, Norman. Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Gidal, Peter. Understanding Beckett: A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
Rabate, Jean-Michel. Language, Sexuality and Ideology in Ezra Pound’s Cantos. 1986.
Metz, Christian. Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Imaginary Signifier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Durant, Alan. Conditions of Music. State University of New York Press, 1985.
Minson, Jeffrey. Genealogies of Morals: Nietzsche, Foucault, Donzelot and the Eccentricity of Ethics. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985.
Trotter, David. The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984. De Lauretis, Teresa. Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
Gallop, Jane. Feminism and Psychoanalysis: the Daughter’s Seduction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Rose, Jacqueline. The Case of Peter Pan: or the Impossibility of Children’s Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
Pecheux, Michel. Language, Semantics and Ideology. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981.
Hirst, Paul. On Law and Ideology. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1979.
Editor: Critical Quarterly (1987- present)
In my period as editor four issues have focused on Pittsburgh:
Vol 33:1 Spring l991 James Snead Memorial Issue Vol 34:3 Autumn l992 Cultural Studies at Pittsburgh Vol 39:1 Spring l997 Pittsburgh English Vol 40:2 Summer l998 Forms of Science
Editorial Board
1973-81: Screen
MEDIA
As Executive Producer Film
Caravaggio. Directed by Derek Jarman Produced by Sarah Radclyffe, 1985.
Friendship’s Death. Directed by Peter Wollen Produced by Rebecca O’Brien, 1986.
On the Black Hill. Directed by Andrew Grieve, Produced by Jennifer Howarth, 1988.
Distant Voices/Still Lives. Directed by Terence Davies Produced by Jennifer Howarth, 1988.
Venus Peter. Directed by Ian Sellar Produced by Christopher Young, 1989.
Play Me Something. Directed by Timothy Neat and John Berger Produced by Kate Swan, 1989.
Hallelujah Anyhow. Directed by Matthew Jacobs Produced by David Stacey, 1991.
Young Soul Rebels. Directed by Isaac Julien Produced by Nadine Marsh Edwards, 1992.
The Long Day Closes. Directed by Terence Davies Produced by Olivia Stewart, 1992. Television
Big Words…Small Worlds. Directed by Ian Potts. Produced by Alan Durant. Presented by David Lodge.
Series: A 100 Years of Cinema (l995-1996)
United States
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies. Directed by Martin Scorsese Produced by Florence Dauman.
France
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema. Directed and Produced by Anne-Marie Mieville and Jean Luc Godard.
Germany
Night of the Film Makers. Directed by Edgar Reisz. Produced by Robert Busch.
Ireland
Ourselves Alone. Directed and Produced by Donald Taylor Black.
Japan
A 100 Years of Japanese Cinema. Directed and Produced by Nagisa Oshima.
Korea
Cinema on the Road. Directed by Jang Sun Woo Produced by Park Ki Yong.
Latin America
Cinema of Tears. Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos. Produced by Roberto Feith.
New Zealand
Cinema of Unease. Directed by Sam Neill and Judy Rymer Produced by Paula Jalfon.
Scandinavia
I am Curious, Film. Directed by Stig Bjorkman Produced by Anna-Lena Wiborn.
Poland
A 100 Years of Polish Cinema. Directed by Pawel Lozinski. Produced by Irena Strzaekowska.
Russia The Russian Idea. Directed by Sergei Selyanov Produced by Tatiana Yakovleva.
China
Yang and Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema. Directed and Produced by Stanley Kwan.
Australia
40,000 Years of Dreaming. Directed by George Miller Produced by Doug Mitchell.
India
And The Show Goes On. Directed by Mrinal Sen Produced by Ravi Malik.
Africa
Aristotle’s Plot. Directed by Jean-Pierre Bekolo Produced by Jacques Bidou.
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Howard Hawks: American Artist. (1997) Directed by Kevin MacDonald Produced by Paula Jalfon.
Lee Marvin: A Personal Memoir. (l998) Directed by John Boorman Produced by Paula Jalfon.
As Producer Film
Melancolia. (1988) Directed by Andi Engel.
Television
Black and White in Colour. (l992) Directed by Isaac Julien Presented by Stuart Hall.
Typically British. (l995) Directed by Mike Dibb and Stephen Frears.
Typewriter, The Rifle and The Movie Camera . (1996) Directed by Adam Simon
Presented by Tim Robbins.
A Brief History of Errol Morris. (l999) Directed by Kevin MacDonald.
This film is called Dogme l995. (2000) Directed by Saul Metzstein.
The American Nightmare. (2000) Directed by Adam Simon. In production.
Honors and Awards
1999: Member, European Film Academy. 1994: Edmund Blunden Lecturer, Hong Kong University.
1992-present: Visiting Professor, Birkbeck College, London.
1992: British Academy Award to research early history of Cahiers du Cinema in Paris January to March l993.
1985-1991: Chairman, John Logie Baird Research Centre, University of Strathclyde
1985-1991: Visiting Professor in Programme for Literary Linguistics, Strathclyde University.
1985: Visiting Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh.
May 1984: British Council Lecturer at Shanghai Foreign Language Institute
April 1984: Visiting Fellow, Griffith University, Brisbane
April 1981: Visiting Fellow, Griffith University, Brisbane1978: British Academy award to work with the philosopher and linguist Michel Pecheux in Paris, Winter 1979.
Films and Television
1996: Cable Ace Award Best Cultural Documentary The Rifle, The Typewriter and the Movie Camera
1996: Official Selection Venice Film Festival: The Show Goes On; Yin and Yang: Gender in Chinese Cinema; The Russian Idea; 100 years of Polish Cinema.
1995: Official Selection Cannes Film Festival Typically British; Cinema of Unease Cinema of Tears 100 years of Japanese Cinema; Cinema on the Road A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Cinema; 2 x 50 years of French cinema
1995: Official Selection Berlin Film Festival Night of the Film Makers
1992: Official Selection Cannes Film Festival The Long Day Closes
1991: Critic’s Prize Cannes Film Festival Young Soul Rebels
1989: Official Selection Cannes Film Festival Melancolia, Venus Peter
1988: International Critic’s Prize Cannes Film Festival Distant Voices, StillLives l988: Golden Seashell San Sebastian Film Festival On the Black Hill
1986: Silver Bear Berlin Film Festival Caravaggio
MEMBERSHIP IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
Modern Language Association
Society for Cinema Studies British Film Institute
CONSULTANCIES
1982: Consultant to Brazilian universities on the relations between literature and language teaching in Departments of English. This consultancy was sponsored by the British Council.
1987-1997: Consultant to the European Film Development Organisation
1998: Consultant to Trinity College, Dublin on the establishment of a film studies programme.
1998-99: Consultant to King's College London on the establishment of a film studies programme
1999-2000: Consultant to the School of Education King's College, London on research programme on media and literacy.
PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS
February 2000: "A defense of criticism." Invited paper at Kenyon College.
September 1999: "Touch of Evil." Invited paper. Fourth International Conference on the Americas. Puebla University.
May 1999: " Criticism and Theory today." Invited paper Cambridge University.
April 1999: "Rethinking Performance." Invited paper at Northwestern University.
July l998: Reflections on value and literature. Invited speaker at conference organised by Sir Frank Kermode at Cambridge University.
April l998: "Television and literacy." Invited paper to educational research seminar at King’s College, London.
March l998: ‘Television and literacy." Invited paper at Hamburg University.
November l997: "Cultural Relativism." Invited paper at the School for Oriental and African studies.
May l997: ‘Performance.’ Invited paper at Exeter University.
April l997: ‘Transatlantic crossings: European and American cinema in the post war period.’ Invited paper at University of California at Los Angeles.
February l996: ‘Literature and Media." Invited paper at Association of Brazilian Teachers of English at Ouro Preto.
April l994: "Barthes and Bazin.’ Invited paper at conference on Barthes University of Pennsylvania
April l994: "Concepts of Race and Nation in James Joyce." Edmund Blunden memorial lecture Hong Kong University. November l993: " Reflections on Distant Voices/Still Lives." Invited paper University of Notre Dame.
March l992: "Never Intended for the stage—Milton and tragedy." Invited paper at University of Colorado at Boulder.
April l990: "Thoughts after McLuhan", Invited paper at Duke University.
April l988: "The return of the author." Conference at Boulder, Colorado.
April l987: "Questions of authorship." University of California at Irvine.
June l986: "Opening Statement." Invited paper at the Linguistics of Writing Conference at Strathclyde University.
June l986: "Concepts of Race and Nation in James Joyce." Keynote lecture at International James Joyce Conference in Copenhagen.
November l985: "Milton’s choice of meter." Invited paper at Yale University.
March l985: "Puritan attacks on the Shakespearean stage." Invited paper at the Society for the Humanities Cornell University.
February l985: "Questions of Realism." Invited paper at the Humanities Research Centre at Raleigh, Durham.
May l984: "Language, linguistics and the study of literature." Invited paper at Beijing University.
May l984: "The Brecht/Lukacs debate." Invited paper at Beijing Foreign Language Institute.
April l984: ‘Modernism re-considered.’ Invited paper Hong Kong University.
November l983: "Realism: Balzac and Barthes." Invited paper at the University of Sussex.
May l983: "Approaches to Realism." Invited paper at University of Rabat.
April l983: "Milton and Galileo." Invited paper at University College, London.
February 1983: "Balzac and Barthes." Invited paper to French Department at the University of Cambridge.
June l982: "Joyce and Benjamin." Invited paper at James Joyce International Conference Dublin.
January l982: Invited course of lectures on James Joyce at the National Association of University Teachers of English, Brazil.
November l981: ‘Language, Linguistics and the Study of Literature." Invited paper University of Lancaster.
May l981: "Language, Linguistics and the Study of Literature.’ Invited paper University of Oxford. May 1981: ‘Relations between linguistics and literary criticism." Invited paper at the University of California at Berkeley.
May l981: " Linguistics and literary criticism." Invited paper at Columbia University.
May l981: "Linguistics and literary criticism." Invited paper at Yale University.
May l981: "From Jakobson to Barthes." Invited paper at New York University.
April l981: "From Jakobson to Barthes." Invited paper at University of Queensland.
April l981: "The relations between linguistics and literary criticism." Invited paper at the University of Sydney.
April l981: "The relations between linguistics and literary criticism." Invited paper at the University of Melbourne.
April l981: "Richards/Benjamin/Barthes." Invited paper at conference on Forms of Interpretation Griffith University.
June l979: "Joyce and Chomsky." Invited paper James Joyce International Conference Zurich.
October l975: "Brecht and Godard." Invited paper at Screen conference on Realism.
September 1975: "Brecht and Godard" Invited paper at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
July l975: "Theory and Film." Invited paper at Essex conference on the sociology of literature.
March l975: "Prufrock’s love song." Invited paper at the University of Dijon.
March l975: "Eliot’s early philosophical and poetic development." Invited set of lectures at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.
Conference Participation
1999: Conference on the Americas, Chair of Orson Welles panel.
1998: The Value of Literature, at the University of Cambridge, participant.
1997: James Joyce conference Dundee University, participant.
1995: Warhol’s Worlds University of Pittsburgh and Warhol Museum conference, organiser.
1993: Film and Literature in the National Curriculum British Film Institute, organiser.
1992: Society for Cinema Studios, participant. l992: Value in Culture conference Tate Gallery, organiser.
1992: Melodrama conference British Film Institute, participant. 1991: Screening Europe British Film Institute, organiser.
1989: Warhol Conference British Film Institute, organiser.
1989: Socialist Scholars Conference, participant.
1989: Pittsburgh Bicentennial Celebration: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Culture, organiser. l988: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Culture at the University of Pittsburgh, organiser.
1988: James Joyce Conference at Venice, participant.
1987: Black British Cinema Conference at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, organiser.
1987: Change and Conflict in Global Culture, conference organiser.
1986: Linguistics of Writing, organiser. l983: Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture at the University of Illinois (Champaign), participant. l982: James Joyce Conference at Dublin, participant.
1979: James Joyce Conference at Zurich, participant.
1975: Sociology of Literature Conference at the University of Exeter, participant.
1975: Brecht and Film Conference at the Edinburgh Film Festival, organiser.
1975: The Screen Magazine Film and Realism Conference, organiser.
Administrative Activities
1982-1984: Chairman of Department of English Studies, University Strathclyde
1983-1984: Course Director M.A. in Literary Linguistics
1983-1985: Member of English Teaching Advisory Committee for the British Council
1995: Acting Director for the Program in Cultural Studies
1995-1998: Co-director for the Program in Cultural Studies
1995-present: Chairman of the London Consortium
Michaelmas l999: Director of Graduate Students Dept of English University of Exeter.
Program Development 1976-1979: New Part 2 Tripos paper in the History of the English language 1550-present. Cambridge University
1982: Establishment of joint honors BA in film and television. Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities.
1983: Establishment of new M. Lit in English as a literary language, Strathclyde University.
1983: Foundation of the John Logie Baird Center for Research in Film and Television, Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities.
1992: Establishment of M.A. in Film and Television at the British Film Institute and Birkbeck College, London.
1995: Establishment of Ph.D in Cultural Studies and the Modern Humanities at the British Film Institute, Birkbeck College, London, Architectural Association and Tate Gallery.