HomeSenior Lecturer in German and Film Studies - Chair of the Department of Film Studies
Room: Arts 2.08
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8311
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 5400
email: A.King@qmul.ac.uk
Teaching
History of German cinema; film theory.
Research
Alasdair King’s current research interests include investigations into the ‘spatial imaginary’ of cinema, drawing on theorists such as Kracauer, Benjamin, Lefebvre, Deleuze, Augé, and Bruno. He is currently working on the representation of the spatial in recent German films, such as in Edgar Reitz’s Heimat trilogy and in the work of Tom Tykwer. His wider research interests include the history of German cinema and German cultural theory from Kracauer to Enzensberger.
Recent publications
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Writing, Media, Democracy.
Peter Lang AG, Oxford and New York, 357pp.
(2007)
Further details - ‘Literatur und Linse: Enzensberger
Goes to the Movies’, in Transpositions:Literature
to Film – Film to Literature eds. Hermann
Rasche and Christiane Schönfeld (Rodopi, Amsterdam
NL, 2007)
Further details - Various entries, Cinegraph Lexicon Compact, ed. H-J Bock (Cinegraph, Hamburg, Germany, forthcoming).
- ‘Enzensberger’s Titanic: The sinking of the German Left and the aesthetics of survival’, in The Titanic in Myth and Memory: Representations in Visual and Literary Culture, eds. Tim Bergfelder and Sarah Street (I.B.Tauris, London, 2004) pp. 73-83.
- ‘Placing Grün ist die Heide (1951): Spatial politics and emergent West German identity’ in Light Motives: German Popular Cinema, eds. Randall Halle and Margaret McCarthy (Wayne State UP, Detroit, Michigan, USA, 2003) pp. 130-147.
- ‘Landscape, ideology and national identity in the German cinema: A case study of Die goldene Stadt (1942)’ in Deutschland im Spiegel seiner Filme, eds. Martin Brady and Helen Hughes (CILT, London, 2000) pp. 96-117
- `The Ministry of Illusion?' - on recent books on National Socialist cinema, Journal of Area Studies, 13, Autumn, pp. 24-27.(1998)
- Review of Reiner Pommerin (ed), Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1995, Berg, 1996, in `Nation, Place and Culture: Issues of Identity in Contemporary Europe', Journal of Area Studies, 10, Spring/Summer, pp. 155-57.
- Translations - `Geo Milev - The Road to Freedom', babel, Summer, 1991, pp. 44-45; H. M. Enzensberger, `Visit to Ingres', Times Literary Supplement, 13-19 July 1990; H. M. Enzensberger, `Short History of the Bourgeoisie', Times Literary Supplement, 15-21 June 1990.