Dr Paul Newland
Lecturer in FilmBA (Hons) English (Exeter), MA English and Film (Exeter), PhD (Exeter)
Contact
Email: pnn@aber.ac.uk
Office: S05 Parry-Williams
Phone: 01970 622952
Teaching Areas
- FM10120 Studying Film
- TF10420 Studying Television
- TF20320 Film and Cultural Identity
- TF32120 Studies in Literary Adaptation
- TFM100/30 Case Studies in Film History
- TFM2430 Film and Representation
Research
Paul Newland’s main areas of research are British cinema history (especially the 1970s), and the representation of space, place, location, territory and architecture on film. His work in both areas tends to be driven by an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to modernism, postmodernism and cultural memory, and, as an adjunct to this, he is developing a specific interest in the synaesthetic nature of music and soundscapes.
Biography
Dr Newland joined the Department as Lecturer in Film in September 2008. He was previously AHRC Research Fellow in Film in the Department of English at the University of Exeter.
Staff Publications
Books
British Films of the 1970s (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011)
(ed.), Don’t Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s (Bristol: Intellect, 2010)
The Cultural Construction of London's East End (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
‘To the west there is nothing...except America: the spatial politics of Local Hero’, in Visual Culture in Britain Vol. 11 No.2, forthcoming - 2010.
‘Towards London 2012: Emily Richardson’s Transit and Memo Mori, and the work of Iain Sinclair’, in Richard Koeck and Les Roberts (eds), City in Film, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming - 2010
'Introduction: Don't Look Now', in Paul Newland (ed.), Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2010)
'We Know Where We're Going, We Know Where We're From: Babylon', in Paul Newland (ed.), Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2010)
‘Production Management on Location in London: Gavrik Losey interviewed by Paul Newland’, in The Journal of British Cinema and Television Vol. 6 No.2, 2009.
‘The Grateful Un-Dead: Count Dracula and the transnational counter culture in Dracula A.D. 1972’, in Our (Un)Invited Guest(s): Documenting Dracula and Global Identities, ed. John Browning and Caroline Joan Picart, Scarecrow Press, 2008.
‘Look Past the Violence: automotive destruction in American Movies’, European Journal of American Culture, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2008).
'Global Markets and a Market Place: Reading BBC Television's EastEnders as the Anti-Docklands', in Journal of British Cinema and Television, vol.5 no.1 (May 2008), pp.72-87.
'An Involuntary Memory? Joseph Losey, Harold Pinter and Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (co-authored with Gavrik Losey), in Sights Unseen: Unfinished British Films, ed. Dan North, Cambridge: Cambridge Scolars Publishing, 2008.
'Folksploitation: Charting the horrors of the British folk music tradition in The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)', in Seventies British Cinema, ed. Robert Shail, London: BFI, 2008
'A Place to Go? Exploring liminal space in Aki Kaurismaki's I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)', in The Cinema of Aki Kaursimaki, Wider Screen 02/2007,
'On an Eastern Arc: Reading Iain Sinclair's interest in Christ Church, Spitalfields in Lud Heat through East End discourse', in City Visions: The Work of Iain Sinclair, ed. Robert Bond and Jenny Bavidge, Literary London Online Journal vol.3 no. 2 (2005),