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Research projects in the Centre for World Cinemas:

Professor Lúcia Nagib

is the leader of the 'Mixed Cinema Network', funded by the White Rose Consortium and involving another five scholars from Leeds, Sheffield and York: Dr Irena Hayter (Leeds); Dr Jonathan Rayner and Dr Mika Ko (Sheffield); Professor Andrew Tudor and Professor Duncan Petrie (York). The award includes three PhD Studentships, starting in October 2009. On its first stage, the network will focus on interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to Japanese cinema. On its second stage, it will open up to interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to world cinema.
Publications in progress:

  • Nagib, Lúcia (2010), World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism. New York/London: Continuum
  • Nagib, Lúcia & Cecília Mello (eds.) (2009), Realism and the Audiovisual Media. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
  • Nagib, Lúcia, Chris Perriam & Rajinder Dudrah (eds.) (2010), Theorising World Cinema. London/New York: IB Tauris.
  • Richie, Donald (2010), Viewing Film, ed. by Lúcia Nagib. London/New York: IB Tauris.

Professor Paul Cooke

  • A BA/WUN-funded project Screening War in Germany, run with Professor Marc Silberman in Wisconsin Madison, looking at the changing representation of the Second World War in Germany since 1945. The project's findings are to be published in November 2009 by Camden House.
  • Beyond a Cinema of Consensus, an edited book with Dr Chris Homewood, looking at the state of contemporary German Film. This is to be published by IB Tauris.
  • The Legacy of the New German Cinema in German Film Today, a monograph to be published by MUP December 2010.

Professor Max Silverman

  • Concentrationary Memories and the Politics of Representation, a 4-year AHRC-funded project with Professor Griselda Pollock .


 Dr Stephanie Dennsion

  • Brazilian cinema post-1960, especially popular feature films and issues of race and sexuality in the star texts of screen actresses.
  • World Cinema, especially new definitions.
  • Third Cinema theory and the question of national cinemas, national identity in the Brazilian Belle Epoque (1898-1914).

 Professor Diana Holmes

  • Popular fictions and story-telling, mainly in a literary but also to some extent in a cinema context.
  • French cinema, especially New Wave, the representation of gender, and women directors.

 Dr Chris Homewood

  • A monograph exploring the representation of urban terrorism in German film.
  • The co-edition of a volume with Professor Paul Cooke on German-language cinema.

 Dr Alan O'Leary

Alan has spent the last few years researching the representation of terrorism in Italian cinema, and is now working on a series of case studies of commercial and critically despised films and cinema genres in Italy (he's writing a short book on the 'cinepanettone'). He works closely with Catherine O'Rawe (Bristol) on the project Thinking Italian Film, which aims to put the study of Italian cinema on a firmer institutional and theoretical footing in the academy. He is co-editor (with Millicent Marcus, Yale) of the annual film issue of the journal The Italianist.

Dr Vlad Strukov

  • Glamour and Celebrity in Post-Soviet Russian Culture with Prof. Helena Goscilo (University of Pittsburgh, USA).
  • Historical Dictionary of Russia (post 1991) with Prof. Robert Saunders (State University of New York, USA).
  • Russian film, animation, digital media, especially the Internet, and popular culture; digital and web-induced arts.  co-authored book on the discourses of Latin American cyberculture (with Claire Taylor, Liverpool).

Dr Thea Pitman

  • A single-authored book on Mexican women travellers.
  • The editorship of double special issue of Journal for Transatlantic Studies on New Transatlanticisms: Africa and the Americas, 7:3, (due out Summer 2009).
  • Policing the Borders of Chicano Cinema: The Critical Reception of Allison Anders's Mi vida loca/My Crazy Life, an article to be published 2010/11.

 Dr Irena Hayter

  • Modern Japanese literature, film and cultural studies
  • Cultural theory, especially psychoanalysis and Marxism
  • Relations between historical and cultural form, e.g. cinema and modernity, modernism and advanced capitalism

Leeds International Research Fund Project: "World Cinema - A Polycentric Approach"

Project leader: Professor Lúcia Nagib   l.nagib@leeds.ac.uk

Co-leaders:

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