MA (Cant) PhD (W Ont)
Email alistair.fox@otago.ac.nz
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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).
Publications
Radner, H., & Fox, A. (2018). Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the moving image. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 232p.
Fox, A. (Ed.). (2017). Truffaut on cinema compiled by Anne Gillain [Translated by Alistair Fox]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 404p.
Fox, A. (2017). Coming-of-age cinema in New Zealand: Genre, gender, and adaptation. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 247p.
Fox, A. (2016). Speaking pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and authorship in film and literature. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 310p.
Fox, A. (1997). The English Renaissance: Identity and Representation in Elizabethan England. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 240p.
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
Fox, A., Marie, M., Moine, R., & Radner, H. (Eds.). (2015). A companion to contemporary French cinema [Translations by Alistair Fox]. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 691p.
Edited Book - Research
Fox, A. (Ed.). (2013). François Truffaut: The lost secret by Anne Gillian [Translated by Alistair Fox]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 334p.
Edited Book - Research
Fox, A. (2011). Jane Campion: Authorship and personal cinema. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 288p.
Authored Book - Research
Fox, A. (2008). The ship of dreams: Masculinity in contemporary New Zealand fiction. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 230p.
Authored Book - Research
Fox, A., Grant, B. K., & Radner, H. (Eds.). (2011). New Zealand cinema: Interpreting the past. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 350p.
Edited Book - Research
Radner, H., Fox, A., & Bessière, I. (Eds.). (2009). Jane Campion: Cinema, nation, identity. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 400p.
Edited Book - Research
Fox, A., & Radner, H. (Eds.). (2008). Cinema genre by Raphaëlle Moine [Translated by Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner]. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 248p.
Edited Book - Research
Fox, A. (2011). Jane Campion. In Oxford bibliographies online. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791286-0039
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2011). Hybridity and indigeneity in contemporary Maori literature of Aotearoa/New Zealand: Witi Ihimaera. In J. Bessière (Ed.), Littératures d'aujourd'hui: Contemporain, innovation, partages culturels, politique, théorie littéraire: Domaines européan, latino-américain, francophone et anglophone. (pp. 91-101). Paris: Honoré Champion.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2013). Exploring the dynamics of epochal change: Shifting identities in the historical novels of Heretaunga Pat Baker:Behind the Tattooed Face, and The Strongest God. In J. Bessière & S. André (Eds.), Littératures du Pacifique insulaire: Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouvelle-Zélande, Océanie, Timor Oriental Approches historiques, culturelles et comparatives [Literatures of the Pacific Islands: New Caledonia, New Zealand, Oceania, East Timor Historical, Cultural and Comparative Perspectives. (pp. 81-93). Paris: Honoré Champion.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2010). Italy in the Maori imaginary: The novels of Witi Ihimaera and Te Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti / The Maori merchant of Venice. CNZS Bulletin of New Zealand Studies, 2, 1-13.
Journal - Research Article
Fox, A. (2009). Inwardness, insularity, and the Man Alone: Postcolonial anxiety in the New Zealand novel. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 45(3), 265-275. doi: 10.1080/17449850903064690
Journal - Research Article
Gillain, A., & Fox, A. (translator) (2021). Totally Truffaut: 23 films for understanding the man and the filmmaker. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 336p. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197536308.001.0001
Authored Book - Other
Fox, A. (2020, February 11). Définir une fantasmatique d'auteur: Trois films de Jacques Demy. Chaire Roger Odin Seminar Series, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. [Invited Presentation].
Other Research Output
Fox, A. (2020, February 18). Une approche génético-biographique: L'œuvre Pier Paolo Pasolini. Chaire Roger Odin Seminar Series, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. [Invited Presentation].
Other Research Output
Fox, A. (2020, February 4). Auteur et créativité: Nouvelles données de la «neuropsychanalyse». Chaire Roger Odin Seminar Series, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. [Invited Presentation].
Other Research Output
Fox, A. (2016). Le rôle du cinéma aux confins de l'Empire britannique: Étude de cas de la ville de Dunedin au temps de la Nouvelle-Zélande coloniale (1896-1929). In I. Bessière, L. Creton, K. Kitsopanidou & R. Odin (Eds.), Ville et cinéma: Espaces de projection, espaces urbains. (pp. 67-83). Paris, France: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2016). The new Anglo-American cinema of sexual addiction. In J. Gwynne (Ed.), Transgression in Anglo-American cinema: Gender, sex and the deviant body. London, UK: Wallflower Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2015). Auteurism, personal cinema, and the fémis generation: The case of François Ozon. In A. Fox, M. Marie, R. Moine & H. Radner (Eds.), A companion to contemporary French cinema [Translations by Alistair Fox]. (pp. 205-230). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A., Marie, M., Moine, R., & Radner, H. (2015). Introduction: Contemporary French cinema: Continuity and change in a global context. In A. Fox, M. Marie, R. Moine & H. Radner (Eds.), A companion to contemporary French cinema [Translations by Alistair Fox]. (pp. 1-14). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2015). Jane Campion. In K. Gabbard (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies: Cinema and media studies. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791286-0039
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