Dr Steve Rawle
Lecturer in Film Studies
Steve is a graduate of YSJ, having received
a BA in Drama, Film and Television in 1997. He subsequently
completed a research MLitt in 2000 and received his PhD, on
performance in the films of Hal Hartley, from The University of
Aberdeen in 2007. His principal teaching interest is film form and
the relationship between history, cultural theory and the
aesthetics and structure of film. Prior to his arrival at YSJ in
2007, he was a teaching assistant at The University of Aberdeen,
where he taught widely on the subject of film. He is a former
student filmmaker and has practical experience working with the BBC
and MTV.
Research Interests
Steve’s current research interests include the
analysis of film performance, the films of Hal Hartley and the
global reception of the work of Takashi Miike. He is in the process
of preparing work for publication on the work of Miike and Hartley,
as well as papers on Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo films and
Battlestar Galactica. His other research interests
include: stylistic repetition in Independent American Cinema;
postmodernism in the work of the Coen Brothers; the relationship
between Japanese, Korean and Hong Kong Cinemas and Contemporary
Hollywood; performance and gender in Martial Arts Cinema; the films
of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; Digital Cinema and the
redefinition of independence in American cinema; contemporary
television animation; Popular culture; Film Theory &
Aesthetics. He has also recently been plagued by obsessions with
Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó and Mike Hodges’ Flash
Gordon.