Part-Time Lecturer in Film Studies

email: l.c.bolton@qmul.ac.uk

Teaching

Areas of specialization and interest

Film and philosophy; film theory; film and religion; film and law;
costume and star studies; Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s.

Convener of Film Studies Research Seminars.

Selected publications

‘Remembering Flesh: Morvern Callar as an Irigarayan Alice’, in Guilt and Shame: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Visual Culture, ed. by Jenny Chamarette and Jennifer Higgins (Peter Lang, 2009)

Review article (3,000 words), ‘Authorizing Jane Campion’, Senses of Cinema, July 2009

‘Meg Gets Naked! Exposing the Female Star in Jane Campion’s In the Cut’, in Feminism and the Body, ed. by Catherin Kevin (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009)

‘But what if the “object” started to speak? Creating a Culture of Two  On Screen’, in Luce Irigaray, Teaching, ed. by Luce Irigaray (London; Continuum, 2008) 

‘Philosophy Goes to the Movies’, Cafe Philosophy (May/June 2008, p.7)

‘The Woman who Watched The Man Who Cried: A Study of Female Consciousness On Screen’, Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts (on-line refereed journal), 8.3 December 2007,
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Review Article (3,000 words), Falzon, Christopher, Philosophy Goes to the Movies (Second Edition) (Routledge, 2007), Film Philosophy, 11.3 December 2007
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Framed! Essays in French Studies (Peter Lang, 2007) (co-ed with Ann Lewis, Gerri Kimber, Michael Seabrook) 

Review article (5,000 words), Kamir, Orit, Framed: Women in Law and Film, Duke University Press, 2006, and Sjogren, Britta, Into the Vortex: Female Voice and Paradox in Film, University of Illinois Press, April 2006, Scope, 9 October 2007,
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‘The Camera as Speculum: Examining the Representation of Female Consciousness in Lost in Translation, Using the Thought of Luce Irigaray’, in From Plato’s Cave to the Multiplex – Philosophy and Film, ed. by Barbara Gabriella Renzi and Stephen Rainey (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006)

Pending publication:

Italy on Screen: Italian Identity in the National Imaginary and the International Symbolic, co-editing with Christina Siggers Manson, with introduction, in preparation for publication by Peter Lang

Film and Female Consciousness: Thinking Women and Luce Irigaray (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
 
Conference papers

 ‘Mimicking Masquerade in Lost in Translation’, to be presented at Screen 50th Anniversary Conference, University of Glasgow, 3-5 July 2009

 ‘Luce Irigaray and Morvern Callar: Where the Look Itself Remains Tactile’, to have been presented at the SCMS Tokyo conference, 21 May 2009 (conference cancelled)

 ‘Rumble in the Jungle: Is there a Queer Voice in Mogambo?’; poster presentation at Queer 50s international conference, Birkbeck, 6-7 May 2009

 ‘He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not – Exposing Erotic Obsession in Romantic Comedy.’ Paper presented at the Addiction Obsession conference, the University of Kingston, 9 – 11 July 2008

 ‘Eat Me, Drink Me, Read Me – Morvern Callar as an Irigarayan Alice.’ Paper presented at the Film and Philosophy, Philosophy and Film conference, the University of the West of England, Bristol, 4 – 6 July 2008

 ‘Luce Irigaray and Morvern Callar – ‘where the look itself remains tactile.’ Invited speaker at Film, Feminism and Phenomenology symposium, the University of Birmingham, 3 July 2008

 ‘Antonioni in Hitchcock and Ramsay’, paper presented at Italy On Screen Study Day, QMUL, 25 January 2008

 ‘The Enduring Grip of Jaws (Or, how the fish still packs a punch)’, paper presented at Spielberg at Sixty’, University of Lincoln, 20-21 November 2007

 ‘The Woman who Watched The Man Who Cried: A Study of Female Consciousness On Screen’; paper presented at Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2007, University of Aberystwyth, 5-7 May, 2007

 ‘Meg Gets Naked! Exposing the Female Star in Jane Campion’s In the Cut’; paper presented at ‘Feminism and the Body’ conference, Kings College London, 25-27 January 2007

 ‘Creating a Culture of Two On-Screen’, paper presented at a conference with and by Luce Irigaray: ‘In all the world we are always only two: towards a culture of intersubjectivity’, University of Nottingham, 24-25 June 2006

 ‘The Camera as Speculum: Locating Female Subjectivity On-Screen Using the Thought of Luce Irigaray’, paper presented at ‘Philosophy and Film’, a conference organized by the Philosophy Department, Queen’s University Belfast, August 2005

 ‘The Feminisation of Space in Jane Campion’s In the Cut’, paper presented at ‘Designs for Living: Space and Place in the Cinema’, a conference organized by the Centre for Film Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, June, 2005

Conference Organisation

 Co-organiser of ‘Italy on Screen’, IGRS 10 February 2007 – with introduction by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and keynote presentation by Pauline Small (QMUL)

Co-Organiser of ‘Russia On Screen’, QMUL 10 May 2008