Research

Paul Newland’s main areas of research are:

British film history (especially the 1970s)

Representation of space, place, location, territory and architecture on film

Film sound and music

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.

Teaching

FM10120 Studying Film
FM20820 British Cinema
FM32720 Soundscapes
TFM3430 Film and Representation
PhD Supervision

Publications

Books

British Films of the 1970s, Manchester: Manchester University Press (2012)

Don’t Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s, Bristol: Intellect (2010) (edited book).

The Cultural Construction of London’s East End: Urban Iconography, Modernity, and the Spatialisation of Englishness, 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. 12, No. 2 (July 2011), pp. 171-183.

‘Production Management on Location in London: Gavrik Losey interviewed by Paul Newland’, in The Journal of British Cinema and Television No.9 (ed. Charlotte Brunsdon and Jon Burrows) (May 2009), pp. 302-312.

‘Global Markets and a Market Place: Reading BBC Television’s Eastenders as the Anti-Docklands’, in The Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 5 No. 1 (May 2008), pp. 72-87.

‘Look Past the Violence: automotive destruction in American Movies’, European Journal of American Culture, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2008), pp. 5-20.

‘Towards London 2012: Emily Richardson’s Transit and Memo Mori, and the work of Iain Sinclair’, in Richard Kroeck and Les Roberts (eds), The City and the Moving Image: Urban Projections (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 156-168.

‘Introduction: Don’t Look Know’, in Paul Newland (ed.), Don’t Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s, Bristol: Intellect (2010), pp. 11-19

‘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 (2010), pp. 95-104.

‘An Involuntary Memory? Joseph Losey, Harold Pinter and Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu’ (co-authored with Gavrik Losey), in Sights Unseen: Unfinished British Films, ed. Dan North, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2008), pp. 33-51.

‘Folksploitation: Charting the horrors of the British folk music tradition in The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)’, in British Cinema in the 1970s, ed. Robert Shail, London: BFI (2008), pp. 119-128.

‘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), pp. 135-151.

‘A Place to Go? Exploring liminal space in Aki Kaurismäki’s I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)’, in ‘The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki’, Wider Screen 02/2007, www.widerscreen.fi

‘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), www.literarylondon.org/hmtl