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MA (Cant) PhD (W Ont)

Emailalistair.fox@otago.ac.nz
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Dunedin

Expertise

Early Modern English literature, Renaissance humanism, literature and politics in the Reformation period, contemporary New Zealand literature and culture (including film), postcolonial literature, theory of literary and cinematic representation.

Current Research

Recent research has focused on the theory of fictive representation in film and literature, authorship and the creative process, issues of gender and genre, adaptation, and national identities. Books forthcoming in 2017 include Coming of Age in New Zealand: Genre, Gender, and Adaptation in a National Cinema, and Truffaut on Cinema (a compilation of extracts from 300 interviews given by the famous filmmaker translated from the French).

Truffaut on Cinema coverFox book titled speaking pictures

Publications

Radner, H., & Fox, A. (2018). Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the moving image. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 232p. Authored Book - Research

Fox, A. (Ed.). (2017). Truffaut on cinema compiled by Anne Gillain [Translated by Alistair Fox]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 404p. Edited Book - Research

Fox, A. (2017). Coming-of-age cinema in New Zealand: Genre, gender, and adaptation. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 247p. Authored Book - Research

Fox, A. (2016). Speaking pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and authorship in film and literature. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 310p. Authored Book - Research

Fox, A. (1997). The English Renaissance: Identity and Representation in Elizabethan England. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 240p. Authored Book - Research

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