Homeemail: p.w.evans@qmul.ac.uk
My published work has been mainly on
Spanish cinema (especially
Buñuel and Almodóvar),
Hollywood (especially the Musical,
Romantic Comedy, and the Biblical
Epic), and British cinema (especially
Carol Reed). Most recently, I have
published articles on Catherine
Deneuve, the two versions of The
Quiet American (Mankiewicz,
1958 and Philip Noyce, 2002). I
curated the 2006 NFT Carol Reed
season, and co-curated (with Charles
Drazin) the 2008 BFI Southbank David
Lean season.
I am currently writing a book for Blackwell’s on Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935), and have been commissioned to write articles on Carlos Saura’s 1998 film Tango (the tango, like the music of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, and Richard Wagner, is one of my passions), on the films of José Luis Borau, and on the Fred Astaire/Leslie Caron musical, Daddy Long Legs (Jean Negulesco, 1955).
I would be prepared to supervise dissertations on any of the topics mentioned above.
Some publications:
Spanish Cinema
- Bigas Luna: Jamón jamón (Paidós, Barcelona, 2004)
- Ed., with Isabel Santaolalla, Luis Buñuel; New Readings (BFI, London, 2004)
- Ed., Spanish Cinema; the Auteurist Tradition (OUP, Oxford, 1999)
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (BFI, London, 1996)
- The Films of Luis Buñuel; Subjectivity and Desire (OUP, Oxford,1995)
Hollywood
- Ed. With Celestino Deleyto, Terms of Endearment; Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s (EUP, Edinburgh, 1998)
- Co-authored with Bruce Babington, Biblical Epics; Sacred Narratives in the Hollywood Cinema (MUP, Manchester, 1993)
- Co-authored with Bruce Babington, Affairs to Remember; the Hollywood Coemdy of the Sexes (MUP, Manchester, 1993)
- Co-authored with Bruce Babington, Blue Skies and Silver Linings; Aspects of the Hollywood Musical (MUP, Manchester, 1985)
British
- Carol Reed (MUP, Manchester, 200
