Personal profile
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
- World Cinema
- 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
Executive Committee, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS)
Sept 2025 → …
Trustee, Firstsite
1 Jan 2022 → 1 Jul 2024
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Decolonizing Film Theory: Cinematic Modernisms and Enunciative Images
Harvey, J., 2028, (In preparation) Lever Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Diaspora Screen Aesthetics: Visualising Difference in Contemporary British Film, TV and Video
Harvey, J., 2027, (In preparation)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Brown Mirror: Masculinity Crises in Contemporary British-South Asian Cinema
Harvey, J., 19 Sept 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Film International.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cinematic Modernity and Enunciation: Two Priorities for a Decolonial Film Studies
Harvey, J., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: New Review of Film and Television Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Internal Contradictions: On the Coloniality of the Global Film Industries
Harvey, J., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Media Practice and Education.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review