Lynsey Russell-Watts

Contact

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  Nottingham
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  UK
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• lynsey.russell-watts@nottingham.ac.uk

Research Summary

I am currently preparing a monograph on French film director Catherine Breillat, to be published by Wallflower Press.

Recent Publications

• RUSHTON, RICHARD AND RUSSELL-WATTS, LYNSEY (EDS), 2010. Catherine Breillat:Women, Sex. Violence, Cinema [special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research] At: Vol. 14, No. 1
• RUSSELL-WATTS, LYNSEY, 2010. Marginalized Males? Men, Masculinity and Catherine Breillat Journal for Cultural Research [special issue 'Catherine Breillat: Women, Sex, Violence, Cinema']. 14(1), 71-84
• RUSSELL-WATTS, L., 2009. 'Analysing Sound and Voice: Refiguring Approaches to the Films of the Indian Cycle'. In: MAULE, ROSANNA WITH BEAULIEU, JULIE, ed., In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 235-255
• RUSSELL-WATTS, L., 2008. 'Spectral Texts, Spectral Images: L’Usage de la photo as Haunted Text’. In: GRIFFITHS, K. and EVANS, D., eds., Haunting Presences: Ghosts in French Literature and Culture Cardiff: University of Wales Press. (In Press.)

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Past Research

My PhD, entitled '(Re)Viewing Resistance: The Psychoanalytic Encounter in Breillat, Calle, Denis and Duras', was awarded in 2005. Looking at the phenomenon of modern and contemporary film and photography which can be see as challenging for the viewer in certain respects, the thesis undertook a reading of these films and texts through the psychoanalytic (specifically Lacanian) notion of resistance. It thus sought to reconfigure both the ways in which we might approach such work and the ways in which film theory (particularly as regards spectatorship) has taken up psychoanalysis.

I have published on Marguerite Duras (novel and film), Catherine Breillat (film) and Annie Ernaux (photo-text).

Future Research

In the longer term, I am pursuing a project on masochistic spectatorship in contemporary film.

• RUSHTON, RICHARD AND RUSSELL-WATTS, LYNSEY (EDS), 2010. Catherine Breillat:Women, Sex. Violence, Cinema [special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research] At: Vol. 14, No. 1
• RUSSELL-WATTS, LYNSEY, 2010. Marginalized Males? Men, Masculinity and Catherine Breillat Journal for Cultural Research [special issue 'Catherine Breillat: Women, Sex, Violence, Cinema']. 14(1), 71-84
• RUSSELL-WATTS, L., 2009. 'Analysing Sound and Voice: Refiguring Approaches to the Films of the Indian Cycle'. In: MAULE, ROSANNA WITH BEAULIEU, JULIE, ed., In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 235-255
• RUSSELL-WATTS, L., 2008. 'Spectral Texts, Spectral Images: L’Usage de la photo as Haunted Text’. In: GRIFFITHS, K. and EVANS, D., eds., Haunting Presences: Ghosts in French Literature and Culture Cardiff: University of Wales Press. (In Press.)
• RUSSELL WATTS, L. WITH WALSH, L., ed., 2007. Terror and Psychoanalyis [Special issue of <i>Nottingham French Studies</i> 46 (3)] Nottingham: Department of French, University of Nottingham.
• RUSSELL-WATTS, L., 2007. 'The Terrors and Pleasures of Analysis: "Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein"' Nottingham French Studies. 46(3), 121-133
• HORN, J and RUSSELL-WATTS, L.J., eds., 2003. Possessions: essays in French literature, cinema and theory Oxford: Peter Lang.
• HOTTELL, R. A. and RUSSELL-WATTS, L.J., 2002. Catherine Breillat's <i>Romance</i> and the Female Spectator: From Dream-Work to Therapy L'Esprit Créateur. VOL 42(PART 3), 70-80