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University of Bedfordshire
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Dr Austin Fisher

Lecturer in Media Arts, Division of Media Art and Production

Austin Fisher

My research interests include Italian cinema, transcultural and cult cinemas, the Western, postmodernism, the films of Quentin Tarantino and various attributions of “political” cinema.

I am currently working on a history of exploitation films and a project investigating the representation of terrorism in 1970s Italy.

I welcome approaches from research students interested in these and related areas.

Other References

www.austinfisher.me.uk
@austinjfisher

Qualifications

  • PhD - Royal Holloway, University of London
  • MA - Queen Mary, University of London
  • BA in English - University of Birmingham

Teaching Expertise

  • Course Leader: MA International Cinema
  • Unit Leader: Film Analysis (MA)
  • Unit Leader: Representation and Reality (MA)
  • Unit Leader: Reading Hollywood (BA)
  • Tutor: European Cinema After 1945 (MA)

Publications

  • Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema (IB Tauris, 2011)
  • Editor on Intellect Books’ Directory of World Cinema series.
  • Full list of publications www.austinfisher.me.uk/publications

Research Interests and Projects

  • Italian Cinema
  • Transcultural Cinema
  • Cult Cinema
  • Westerns
  • Cinematic Violence
  • Postmodernism
  • Political Cinema
  • Exploitation Cinema

Expertise

Popular Italian cinema's engagement with the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

His research in this field appears in The Italianist, The Blackwell Companion to Italian Cinema and Scope: an Online Journal of Film and TV Studies.

Recent and forthcoming talks include: 

  • A Q&A at the Irish Film Institute
  • A guest lecture at the University of Tennessee
  • Papers at both the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference in Boston and MeCCSA 2012 at University of Bedfordshire

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1582 743173
E: austin.fisher@beds.ac.uk

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