果冻传媒

About

Catherine Constable gained her BA (Hons) in Philosophy (part one) and English Literature (part two) from St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. She holds an MA with Distinction in Women鈥檚 Studies from the University of York and a PhD in Philosophy from the 果冻传媒. She taught in the Film Studies department at Sheffield Hallam University for a decade before moving to 果冻传媒 in the Autumn of 2007. Her main research interests include continental philosophy, postmodernism, feminist theory and Hollywood cinema. Catherine is also on the editorial boards of Film-Philosophy and the paper journal Science Fiction Film and Television.

Research interests

My book Thinking in Images draws together different philosophical constructions of the figure of woman and looks at the ways in which these can be contested and recreated through a close study of films featuring Marlene Dietrich. This interest in creating new methodologies for inter-relating theory and film texts also informs my writing on The Matrix Trilogy, which treats the films as complex adaptations of Jean Baudrillard鈥檚 Simulacra and Simulation. I explore the links between postmodern theory and postclassical Hollywood cinema in Postmodernism and Film: Rethinking Hollywood鈥檚 Aesthetics. I am currently developing a monograph on gender and the sublime in contemporary science fiction film.

Selected publications

Books

Articles

• "Seeing Lucy's Perspective: Returning to Cavell, Wittgenstein and The Awful Truth", The New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol 9, Sept 2011, pp. 329-346.
• "Theory as Style: Adapting Crash via Baudrillard and Cronenberg" in H. Carel and G. Tuck (Eds) New Takes in Film-Philosophy, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) pp. 135-153.
• 鈥淏audrillard Reloaded: Interrelating Philosophy and Film via The Matrix Trilogy鈥�, Screen, vol. 47, no. 2, summer 2006, pp. 233-249.
• 鈥淧ostmodernism and Film鈥� in Steven Connor (Ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) pp. 43-61.
• 鈥淏ecoming the Monster鈥檚 Mother: Morphologies of Identity in the Alien Series鈥� in Annette Kuhn (Ed.) Alien Zone II, (London: Verso, 1999) pp. 173-202.

Teaching and supervision

I currently teach the Theories of the Moving Image module to first year students, and a special module on Postmodern Hollywood for final year students. I have previously taught a module on Hollywood cinema to second year students, and convened the MPhil/PhD Methods Reading Group.

I have recently supervised to completion PhDs on 'Mind to Screen: Disordered Mental States in Film' and 'Strategies of Narrative and Spectacle in the New 3D Cinema', and am interested in supervising research on postmodernism, adaptation, feminist film theory and Hollywood cinema.

Administrative roles

• Senior Tutor