Richard Rushton

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Theatricality and Interrelations between Art, Film and Theatre

Theatricality and Interrelations Between Art Film and Theatre (TIAFT) is a Research Networking Project funded by the AHRC, running from January 2017-June 2018. The project seeks to achieve two main aims: 1- to theorise the intersections and interrelations between the fields of art, film and theatre. Chiefly we have thematized this interrelation …

01 Feb 2017 in Project & Promoted


In This World, Not Above It

In This World, Not Above It Related posts: Directory of World Cinema: China

28 Jan 2016 in Article


In Praise of Love

Richard Rushton is currently drafting a book called In Praise of Love. The book examines themes of love and marriage in some European new wave films of the 1950s and 60s, films like Godard’s Le Mépris, Antonioni’s La Notte and Fellini’s 8½. He is also working on a short book called Deleuze …

30 Oct 2014 in Book


The Politics of Hollywood Cinema: Popular Film and Contemporary Political Theory

Related posts: A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Theatre and Performance Racial justice and the politics (political aesthetics) of black American cultural and artistic production Under a Bad Sign: Criminal-Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture What is Film Theory? An Introduction to Contemporary Debates

15 Oct 2014 in Book