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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.
Education/Academic qualification
Film Studies, PhD, Cinema and Agency: Ranciere's Political Aesthetics and Contemporary Global Art Cinema, Anglia Ruskin University
Award Date: 1 Mar 2016
Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, MA, 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 → …
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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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Spaces of Intervention: Politics, Aesthetics and Archives in the films of John Akomfrah
Harvey, J., 2 Mar 2021, Black Film/British Cinema 2. Nwonka, C. & Saha, A. (eds.). London: MIT PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Peripeteia and Vertigo Sea: political ecologies of migration
Harvey, J., 2021, John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea. Homs, N. & Domenech, G. (eds.). Barcelona: Fundacio Antoni TapiesResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review