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Dr. Nathan Abrams

Dr. Nathan Abrams is director of film studies at Bangor University. He is co-author of Studying Film (London: Arnold, 2001). His most recent publications include: ‘The (M)orality of Murder: Jews, Food, and Steven Spielberg’s Munich’; ‘“Are You Still You?”: ‘“My religion is American”: A Midrash on Judaism in American Films, 1990 to the Present’, in Proceedings of the 51st Annual German Association for American Studies Conference (forthcoming); ‘From Jeremy to Jesus: the Jewish Male Body on Film, 1990 to the Present’, in Mysterious Skin: The Male Body in Contemporary Cinema,ed. Santiago Fouz-Hernández (London and New York: IB Tauris, 2009); ‘Kosher Beefcakes and Kosher Cheesecakes: Jews in Porn – An Overview’, in Jews & Sex, ed. Nathan Abrams (Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2008): 147-68 and ‘“I'll have whatever she’s having”: Jewish Food on Film’ in Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film, ed. Anne Bowers (New York and London: Routledge, 2004): 87-100; and ‘Memory, Identity, and Self-Positioning in Total Recall’, Film and Philosophy VII (2003): 48-59. His research interests cover American popular culture and film, in particular, the representation of history on film and how film can be used as a historical resource. He is also currently working on a project that examines the new and changing depictions of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism in American and European film. Within this area of research, he is particularly interested in the use of food on film. He would be interested in supervising postgraduates in any of these areas or in any other field covering American, European and Israeli film.

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Dr. Pwyll ap Siôn

Dr. Pwyll ap Siôn is a musicologist and composer, interested in the film music of Michael Nyman. His most recent publications include The Music of Michael Nyman (Ashgate Press, 2007), ‘Reanimating the Image: Michael Nyman’s music for The Piano’, in The Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and the Visual Media, ed. Graeme Harper (New York: Continuum Press, forthcoming) and ‘Michael Nyman’, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001), vol. xviii. He teaches modules on how to study film music and how to compose music for film.

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Amy Chambers

Amy Chambers is a PhD student in Film Studies. She graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2006 with an MA (Hons) in Film Studies and History (joint honours). Amy is exploring the Planet of the Apes series as history. She is looking at what it shows us about the period it was made in and how opinions about particular issues developed over the years of the series. She is also looking at the franchise as a whole and the fan culture that surrounds the films, televisions series’ and related merchandise. Amy teaches on the module, ‘The Language of Film’.

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Dr. Astrid Ensslin

Dr Astrid Ensslin is Lecturer in New Media. She teaches the Film Studies module 'Saint, Genius, Star'. As well as her publications on Hypertext she has co edited Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies, editors: Ensslin, A and Johnson, S (Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. 2007).

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Jonathan Ervine

Jonathan Ervine teaches French Cinema. His research interests include Contemporary French Cinema and Politics, focusing particularly on Films since 1995 that deal with the treatment of immigrants in France and life in suburban France. He is also interested in the representation of immigrants in other French media, such as popular music, sport and comedy. Additionally he is interested in the theme of Cinema as a means of opposing war.

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Dr. Ben Fisher

Dr. Ben Fisher is involved with multi-media projects ranging from TV to Drama. He has researched best practice for the use of technology in language learning, and was the Director for the ESTEL Project (Exploiting Satellite Television for Language). He retains an interest in the exploitation of authentic broadcast regalia for language learning as digital convergence becomes a reality.

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Professor Graeme Harper

Professor Graeme Harper is director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries. He has published many books on film and cinema including the forthcoming The Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and the Visual Media (General Editor Harper, G. Film Editor Doughty, R. and Music Editor  Eisentraut, J. Continuum), the forthcoming Cinema and Landscape (co-edited with Jonathan Rayner), Signs of Life: Medicine and Cinema (Foreword by Kenneth C. Calman, Editor Graeme Harper, Editor Andrew Moor. Wallflower Press, Feb 2005), Swallowing Film: Short Film Fiction co authored by Peter Carey (Quasimodo Books, June 2000) and The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film (edited with Rob Stone, Columbia University Press/Wallflower, April 2006 ). He is currently also co-editor of the journal Studies in European Cinema.

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Llion Iwan

Llion Iwan is a lecturer and an author who also directs current affairs, travel and adventure documentaries.  Llion won international awards for his BBC documentary The Man Who Jumped to Earth, including the Grenoble 2004 and Dijon 2005 film festivals. He still directs documentaries in the independent sector, and his 2006 BBC documentary, Drowning of a Village was shortlisted for the 2007 Celtic Film festival and BAFTA Wales in the best documentary category.

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Dyfrig Jones

Previous to joining the School of Creative Industries and Media, Dyfrig worked as a producer-director on numerous TV and radio series. In addition to his broadcasting work, he is the editor of Barn, a Welsh-language current affairs magazine, and is responsible for the magazine's website, Barn 2.0.

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William R. Lewis

William R. Lewis is senior lecturer, and a native of Anglesey. He graduated from Bangor University where he later gained a doctorate in creative writing.  He has since established himself as one of Wales’ most industrious and experienced scriptwriters, and has written for theatre, television and radio.  He was for several years a regular member of the scriptwriting team of Pobol y Cwm (BBC Cymru), S4C’s flagship soap opera.

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Dr. Stefan Machura

Dr. Stefan Machura teaches Crime and Law in Film. His research interests are related to the areas of sociology of law, political sociology, criminology and criminal justice, popular culture including mass media, and public management.

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Dr. Stephanie Marriott

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Dr. Helena Miguélez-Carballeira

Dr. Helena Miguélez-Carballeira teaches Adaptations in European Cinema with a particular interest in Hispanic gender studies, Spanish literature and translation studies.

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Dr. Eben J. Muse

Dr. Eben J. Muse's work has explored the way that film and film technology was used to re-imagine past events to fit into current ideology and culture. His book The Land of Nam: The Vietnam War and American Film explored this discourse in the context of America's coming to terms with that War during the Reagan and Bush years. He has also studied this relationship through the discourse of teaching and learning (within both individual and organisational contexts).

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Chris Pallant

Chris Pallant is currently completing a PhD in Film Studies. The main focus of his research is animated film, specifically Disney. He has also written on Roberto Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. He currently teaches on two modules, ‘Film History’ and ‘World Cinema’.

Email: iss01d@bangor.ac.uk

 

Dan Papia

Dan Papia holds a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from UCLA’s world famous film school. He has worked on many screenplays and still has a development and production company in Hollywood. He has previously worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist.

Email: danpapia@mac.com

 

Dr. Robert Pope

Dr. Robert Pope is a lecturer in Religious Studies, He also teaches God in Film. His research interests are on Modern Church History and Theological Development. He has published a book entitled Salvation in Celluloid: Theology, Imagination and Film (London and New York: T & T Clark, 2007).

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Huw Powell

Huw Powell is Tutor in Media Production. He has over ten years of production experience, gained on a wide variety of productions in the television industry in Wales and England. He has a BA Hons degree in Communications from Bangor University, as well as a PGCE in Education and Training. He has been teaching single camera and radio production on Media courses at Bangor for the last ten years primarily in Welsh but also in English for the past three years. Huw teaches or is involved with the following modules: Introduction to Media Production, Improvised Television  Production, Improvised Radio  Production, Standard Media Production, Advanced Media Production, Essential Film Production, ‘My Creative Projects’. He also contributes to Journalism production modules and assists final year and MA students with their dissertation production work.

Email: iss41d@bangor.ac.uk

 

Dr. Steven Price

Dr. Steven Price specialises in screenwriting and film, drama, English and American literature. He is currently exploring David Mamet’s screenwriting and film direction. As a result, he has become especially interested in the peculiar status of the screenplay text. This has never been regarded as ‘literature’, despite the prolific production of screenplays by major writers, the significant expansion in screenplay publication in recent decades, the development of screenwriting into a mainstream discipline in universities in the UK and the US, and the quite different status of the theatrical play text.  Accordingly he is currently working on two substantial projects.  The first is a history of the screenplay; the second is an analysis of its textual properties, and the critical and ideological bases for its continuing marginalisation as an object of academic study.  His major publications include: The Screenplay: Authorship, Ideology, and Criticism (Palgrave), submission date February 2009, The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet (Palgrave, August 2008), ‘On Directing Mamet’, The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet, ed. Christopher Bigsby (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004),  pp. 154-70.

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Dr. Laura Rorato

Dr Laura Rorato teaches Italian cinema. She also contributes to the teaching of the MA in European Studies (Postmodernism, Umberto Eco, and three specialist courses on contemporary Italian literature and culture).

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Dr. Anna Saunders

Dr Anna Saunders is a Lecturer in German. She also teaches German Film and Politics. He research interests include the Social and Political history of the GDR, with particular emphasis on youth culture, education and the employment of quasi-religious propaganda.

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Dr Kate E. Taylor

Dr. Kate E Taylor graduated from Goldsmith’s College in London in English and Drama and then studied for her MA in European Film at Exeter University.  On completing her MA she travelled to Japan and taught there before returning to complete her PhD at Exeter University.  Her main research areas are the visual arts including film and media of Japan, South Korea and Mainland China, questions of Globalisation in the world media, and the positioning of the body as it related to film studies.  Her special area of interest is the positioning and theorising of women across global media systems. She has published articles and chapters on a variety of subjects including Chinese cinematic landscape, discourses of the monstrous in the work of French Director Claire Denis, motherhood in ‘Battlestar Galatica’ and representation of prostitution in Japanese post-war cinema. Her book examining Japanese and Korean film Directors will be published late next year with Wallflower Press.

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