Reader in Film Studies

Contact Details

Department of Film and Television Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7HS UK

Tel: +44 24 7652 3662
Fax:+44 24 7652 4757
Email: E.C.Gallafent@warwick.ac.uk

Research Profile

Edward Gallafent’s main area of interest is North American sound cinema. His work has concentrated on the intersection of star, director and genre, looking at substantial bodies of work achieved by stars and directors that have involved engagement with more than one genre or mode. He is interested in both early and recent Hollywood film, and the relations between them. He is currently working on a project that will look at a number of stars and their work in film narratives involving desire and deceit. He is also working on a short study of the meaning of the act of writing in Hollywood film, and has recently co-edited (with John Gibbs of the University of Reading) the first issue of a new online scholarly film journal , Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, which can be accessed here.

Publications include:

Books

• Quentin Tarantino (On Directors Series) Longman Pearson, (2006)

• Astaire and Rogers, Cameron Books, 2000 (published in the USA by Columbia University Press, 2002)
• Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director Studio Vista, 1994

Articles/chapters

• 'Violence, Actions and Words in Million Dollar Baby' Cineaction 68, 2006
• ‘Intuitions in Africa: Personal and Political Knowledge in The Constant Gardener’ Cineaction 70, 2006

• 'Matters of Proportion : The Trouble with Harry' in Hitchcock Annual 15

Teaching and Supervision

Ed Gallafent's recent teaching has included aspects of Hollywood cinema, Swedish Cinema, and Basic Film Criticism. He is currently supervising PhDs on Melancholy in Hollywood Westerns, on Marriage and Detection in Classical Hollywood Cinema, and on the Happy Ending in Hollywood Cinema. He is interested in supervising PhDs in many areas of either classical or contemporary American cinema.