Gill Branston - MA (London), MA (Leeds)
Overview
Position:
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Email:
BranstonGA@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 208 74509 (Via School)
Fax: N/A
Extension: 74509
Gill Branston is an Honorary Senior Lecturer. She was Director of Undergraduate Studies until September 2009, is still involved with the School and can be contacted using her Cardiff email address above.
She is co-author, with Roy Stafford, of The Media Student's Book (Routledge) and its accompanying co-authored website - Media Student's Book. The book has been translated into Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Taiwanese, and Turkish, and editions are in process in Dutch, Greek, Polish and Swedish. Its fifth edition is being prepared for May 2010 (slightly later in the US).
She has taught, broadcast and written in the area of Cinema Studies, TV Studies, and Media Studies more generally.
She was elected in 2007, and 2008, to the Executive Committee of MeCCSA, the national subject association for Media, Communication and Cultural Studies in Higher Education. She acted as a Peer Reviewer for the UK Film Council in 2007, and for the AHRC in 2008.
She is a member of the Management Board for Chapter Arts Centre and on the Board of the annual Wales One World Film Festival. She is also an External examiner for Sussex University.
Publications
Recent Articles and Chapters include:
(2007) 'The Planet at the End of the World: 'Event' Cinema and the Representability of Climate Change' in New Review of Film and Television Studies, 5,2, August 2007.
(2007) Review of Ros Gill: Gender and the Media, December 2007, Feminist Media Studies.
(2006) 'Genre’, part of the reader Analysing Texts for the D204 Open University course Understanding Media.
Co-designer of accompanying DVD material Analysing Texts. (The interactive DVD was short listed by the THES for a distance learning prize, Dec 2005.) ISBN: 0335218865 pb: 04015322111.
(2005) ‘What A Difference a Bay Makes: Cinema and Re-thinking Welsh Heritage’ in The Politics of Heritage: the Legacies of ‘Race’, eds Littler, Jo, and Naidoo, Roshi, London and New York: Routledge ISBN 0415322111.
(2002) Consultant, Harrap French Media Dictionary.
(2002) ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ (review article) in Feminist Media Studies.
(2000) Cinema and Cultural Modernity. Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press (translated into Chinese 2005) ISBN: 0-335-20076-1 9 780335200764. Open University Press
(2000) 'Why Theory?' in Re-Inventing Film Studies edited by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams (London and New York: Arnold).
(1999) Co-editor, News, Gender and Power with Cynthia Carter and Stuart Allan (Routledge: London, translated into Japanese 1999; Chinese 2004.
Research
Research Interests
Cinema(s) and environmental politics
Histories of approaches to Media Studies
Research Supervision
Interested in supervising work around contemporary cinema, especially Hollywood and its relation to environmental politics.