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Alan Clarke

Alan ClarkeSenior Lecturer for Media, Performance, Film & TV Production

Teaches on undergraduate modules

  • The Medium is the Message?
  • Ideology of the Image
  • Documentary Theory
  • Cultural Contexts
  • Popular Genres
  • Students Survival Kit
  • Issues of Taste
  • Media Futures & Cybercultures
  • Reading the Media

Alan also teaches MAs in Literature and International Studies.

 

Research interests

  • Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity
  • Popular Culture
  • Media History
  • History & Philosophy of Science
  • Innovative Methods of Assessment & teaching
  • Science Fiction & Cyberpunk
  • Documentary
  • Cultural History

 

Publications

  • Suspicious Communities: Post Apocalypse SF Film and Postmodernity’ (forthcoming)
  • History of British Documentary Cinema in Directory of World Cinema (Intellect Books. 2011)
  • ‘The Best Use of Infinity: Open Educational Resources and the Politics of Knowledge’ – ADM / HEA  Subject centre magazine ‘Networks’ Issue number 8 Autumn 2009
  • ‘Something for Nothing or Nothing for Something? Intellectual ‘Property’ and the Idea of ‘Free’ Education -  ADM / HEA – GLAD (Ed. David Clews. 2009)
  • ‘Past Tense’ in Britishness & Cultural Studies: Continuity and Change in Narrating the Nation. (Eds – S. Murray & K. Knauer) Slask in Katowice (2000)

 

Other

  • Editor for C4 on current affairs and science documentaries 1981 – 1988
  • Member of Association for Research into Popular Fictions
  • BFI listed expert on Documentaries, Film Noir and Science Fiction