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Overview
Dr James Harvey is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media. His research is preoccupied with the politics and aesthetics of film and screen media, with an emphasis on documentary, artists' moving image and art cinema. He is especially interested in themes of nation, race, colonialism and diaspora. James is Programme Leader for the MA in Global Film and Television (Online).
Research interests
James's research is preoccupied by the politics and aesthetics of contemporary film and screen media, engaging typically with art cinema, documentary and artists' moving image. He is especially interested in themes of race, coloniality and nation. James is the author of Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and John Akomfrah (BFI Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2023), and the editor of Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
James is currently researching discourses of decolonisation in the context of Film and Media Studies. He is also developing new research on diaspora film and screen practitioners in postcolonial Britain.
Teaching specialisms
James would welcome PhD applications in any of the following areas:
- Film theory and philosophy
- Race, coloniality and diaspora in film and media
- Artists' moving image
- Documentary
- Political aesthetics
Education/Academic qualification
Film Studies, PhD, Cinema and Agency: Ranciere's Political Aesthetics and Contemporary Global Art Cinema, HEI: Anglia Ruskin University
Award Date: 1 Mar 2016
Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, MA, HEI: University of Nottingham
Award Date: 1 Dec 2012
Film and Cultural Studies, BA (Hons), The University of Lancaster
Award Date: 1 Jun 2011
External positions
Trustee, Firstsite
1 Jan 2022 → 1 Jul 2024
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Archival reenactments: decolonising a documentary convention
Harvey, J., 27 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Studies in Documentary Film. p. 1-20 20 p., 2426306.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘White is where you are’: Post-imperial Europe and white aesthetics in Atlanta season 3
Harvey, J., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Black Image Making and Whiteness. Edinburgh University Press, p. 1-24 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Surplus liveness and black male performance in Girls, Tricky
Harvey, J., Oct 2023, Refocus: The Films of Steve McQueen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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John Akomfrah
Harvey, J., 7 Sept 2023, 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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‘The kaleidoscopic conditions’ of John Akomfrah’s Stuart Hall
Harvey, J., 13 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Transnational Screens. 13, 2, p. 83-95 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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