Dr Paul Elliott

Lecturer in Film Studies

Institute of Humanities & Creative Arts

Contact Details

email: p.elliott@worc.ac.uk

tel: 01905 85 2428

Paul Elliott is the author of Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations, a study that deals with embodiment and philosophy in the work of Alfred Hitchcock, and Guattari Reframed, an introductory volume on the French psychoanalyst and activist Felix Guattari. He has a PhD in film studies and has written widely in the area of cinema and British film.

He is currently researching a book on the British crime film that attempts to assert that the crime film can be seen as a form of national cinema exposing the fears, anxieties and desires of Britain since the end of the Second World War.

He is responsible for modules on Film Theory, British Cinema, Hollywood Cinema and Film Reviewing.  

Teaching & Research

Specialist Teaching Areas  
British Cinema, Film Theory, Critical Theory, Theoretical Psychoanalysis  

Specialist Research Areas    
Embodied Film Theory, British Cinema, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, Cultural Philosophy, Crime Cinema, Film Theory and Philosophy

Professional Bodies

Publications

Elliott, Paul, Guattari Reframed (London: IB Tauris, 2011). In press.

Elliott, Paul, Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations: Embodied Film Theory and Cinematic Reception (London: IB Tauris, 2011). In press

Elliott, Paul, “The Eye, the Brain, the Screen: What Neuroscience Can Teach Film Theory”, Excursions, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (June 2010), 1-16

Elliott, Paul, “Cinematicity: 1895 Before and After”, published in Scope, 8, 2006. (Review)

Elliott, Paul, “The First Rule Is...Images and Reflections of the Rhizome and Fight Club”, published in Postgraduate English, 12, 2005

Conferences:

2010 Straight Outta Uttoxeter: The Films of Shane Meadows, University of East Anglia. “”I’m the Monster Now”: Remembering, Repeating and Working-through in Twenty Four Seven and Dead Man’s Shoes”

2009 Science in Society, Oxford University, “The Eye, The Brain, The Screen: Film and Neuroscience”

2009 In Sight, University of Sussex “What Neuroscience Can Teach Film Theory”

2006 Cinematicity: 1895 Before and After, University of Essex “Vision and the Nineteenth Century; The Modern Scopic Regime”

2006 ManuScript, Manchester University “The Deleuzian Rhizome as a Literary and Cinema Narrative Model”

External Responsibilities