Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Chris Homewood

Lecturer in German and World Cinemas

Dr Chris Homewood

0113 34 33512

Biography

I was educated at the University of Bangor, North Wales (BA), the University of Nottingham (MA) before joining the University of Leeds to do my PhD (completed 2008).

Teaching

Level Subject
Level 1 IT for Language Students
Level 1 Core Language
Level 1 Introduction to World Cinema I
Level 1 Introduction to World Cinema II
Level 1 Approaching German Culture
Level 2 Freedom and Control
Level 2 From Film Noir to Asia Extreme: Questioning Genre in World Cinema
Level 3 German Cinema into the New Millennium
Level 3 Final Year Dissertation
MA World Cinema Core Module
MA Dialogues with Hollywood

(italics = Module Leader)

Research Interests

I have a broad interest in German cinema ( from Weimar to the present day) but my main research focus centres on the representation of the Rote Armee Fraktion (better known as the Baader-Meinhof group) as well as the legacy of 1968 in German-language cinema over the course of the last 30 years. I am also developing a research interest in the relationship between Japanese anime and Hollywood.

Current Projects

I am working towards the completion of my first monograph, From Baader to Prada: Cultural Memory, Filmmakers and the RAF, as well as co-editing a volume for I. B. Tauris, New Directions in German Cinema, with Prof. Paul Cooke. I am also developing a paper which explores the relationship between Japanese anime and Hollywood.

Publications

Edited Volumes

  • With Paul Cooke (eds.), New Directions in German Cinema (London/NY: I. B. Tauris) Forthcoming

Recent Papers

  • 'Von Trotta's The German Sisters and Petzold's The State I Am In; Discursive Boundaries in the Films of the New German Cinema to the Present day', ECRF 4, Newcastle, 2004.
  • 'The West German terrorist as Vampire', Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism, Cardiff, 2005.]
  • 'Communicative Memory and Taboo in Andres Veiel's Black Box BRD, CUTG 2006, Leeds.
  • 'Have the Best Ideas Stood the Test of Time? Negotiating the Legacy of '68 in Hans Weingartner's Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei/The Edukators' Memories of '68: International Perspectives, Leeds, 2008
  • Hans Weingartner's The Edukators: Political Forum or Cinematic Site of Mass Diversion?, University of Swansea, 2009

Publications

  • 'Von Trotta's The German Sisters and Petzold's The State I Am In: Discursive Boundaries in the Films of the New German Cinema to the Present day', Studies in European Cinema, 2.2, 2005
  • 'The Return of "Undead" History: The West German Terrorist as Vampire and the Problem of "Normalizing" the Past in Margarethe von Trotta's Die bleierne Zeit (1981) and Christian Petzold's Die innere Sicherheit (2001)', in Stuart Taberner and Paul Cookes, eds., German Culture, Politics and Literature into the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Normalization (Rochester: Camden House, 2006)
  • 'Challenging the Taboo: the Memory of West Germany's Terrorist Past in Andres Veiel's Black Box BRD (2001)', New Cinemas, 5.2, 2007
  • 'Making Invisible Memory Visible: Communicative Memory and Taboo in Andres Veiel's Black Box BRD (2001)', in Gerrit-Jan Berendse and Ingo Cornils, eds., Baader-Meinhof Returns. History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (German Monitor) ( Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi, 2008)

Other

Conferences Organised