Mark Gallagher
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, Faculty of Arts
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Teaching Summary
My teaching areas include US and global film history and film culture, with particular interest in contemporary East Asian popular and art cinemas and American independent and alternative film since… read more
Research Summary
My current research focuses on contemporary US, East Asian and global cinema, with particular interests in production cultures, screen authorship, film and television industries, American independent… read more
Recent Publications
GALLAGHER, M., 2013. Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood University of Texas Press. (In Press.)
GALLAGHER, M., 2012. “Male Style and Race in the Neo-Retro Heist Film”. In: SHARY, T., ed., Millenial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema Wayne State University Press. (In Press.)
GALLAGHER, M., 2012. “Discerning Independents: Steven Soderbergh and Transhistorical Taste Cultures". In: TZIOUMAKIS, Y., MOLLOY, C. AND KING, G., ed., American Independent Cinema: Indie, Indiewood and Beyond Routledge. (In Press.)
GALLAGHER, M., 2010. ‘Would You Rather Spend More Time Making Serious Cinema?’: Hero and Tony Leung’s Polysemic Masculinity. In: RAWNSLEY, G and RAWNSLEY, M., eds., Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of ‘Hero' London: Routledge.
My teaching areas include US and global film history and film culture, with particular interest in contemporary East Asian popular and art cinemas and American independent and alternative film since the 1960s. I also teach extensively in the area of transnational film and television, dealing with international cultural flows, particularly those involving East Asia, North America and Europe. My teaching addresses as well genres and stars in historical and international contexts. Overall, my teaching builds on research interests in production, reception and representation. My Nottingham modules have included Film History 2 (1945-Present), The New Hollywood, Transnational Film and Television, Film and Television Genres: The Global Action Cinema, Television Cultures, Approaches to Film and Television, Representing Reality, and the MA module Hollywood at Home and Abroad.
Current Research
My current research focuses on contemporary US, East Asian and global cinema, with particular interests in production cultures, screen authorship, film and television industries, American independent cinema, global film genres, international film stars, and gender in popular cinema. I work also with documentary film, television, and emerging online media. My second monograph, Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. Additional recent projects include work on the circulation and viewing practices of Islamic insurgent video, on representations of female illness in contemporary cinema, and on masculinity in the contemporary heist film.
I am a member of the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies Executive Committee, founded in March 2012.
My existing publications include the following (see also the list under the 'Publications' tab)
Books: Action Figures: Men, Action Films and Contemporary Adventure Narratives
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Articles: ' "Would You Rather Spend More Time Making Serious Cinema?": Hero and Tony Leung's Polysemic Masculinity', in Gary Rawnsley and Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, eds., Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of 'Hero' (Routledge, 2010). ' "Be Patient, Dear Mother ... Wait For Me": The Neo-Infirmity Film, Female Illness and Contemporary Cinema'. Feminist Media Studies 9.2 (June 2009). 'Traffic/Traffik: Race, Globalization and Family in Soderbergh's Remake' in Jack Boozer, ed., Authorship in Film Adaptation (University of Texas Press, 2008). 'Rumble in the USA: Jackie Chan in Translation', in Andy Willis, ed., Film Stars: Hollywood and Beyond (Manchester University Press, 2004). 'Queer Eye for the Heterosexual Couple'. Feminist Media Studies 4.2 (2004). 'Tripped Out: The Psychedelic Film and Masculinity'. Quarterly Review of Film and Video 21.3 (2004). 'What's So Funny About Iron Chef?' The Journal of Popular Film and Television 31.4 (Winter 2004). 'Lens on a Hardbody: Cult Documentary and Class Politics'. Journal of Film and Video 55.4 (Winter 2003). 'Men in Tights: Sport and Representation in the 2000 Olympics Telecasts'. Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 45 (Fall 2002). Available at http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc45.2002/gallagher/index.html. 'I Married Rambo: Spectacle and Melodrama in the Hollywood Action Film', in Christopher Sharrett, ed., Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media (Wayne State University Press, 1999). 'Masculinity in Translation: Jackie Chan's Transcultural Star Text'. The Velvet Light Trap 39 (Spring 1997).
Future Research
Future research projects include a book-length work on global screen-production cultures, emphasizing creative workers' negotiations in international industrial context; and another book-length work on transnational male film stars across film history, with cases including Conrad Veidt, Alain Delon, Javier Bardem and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. I am also researching a shorter project on Chinese film-industry personnel whose work roles bridge Mandarin- and English-language professional and cultural contexts.