Paul Gormley is Principal Lecturer and Field Leader for Media, Communication and Screen Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London. His research is concerned with questions of affect and ethnicity in contemporary cinema and his book The New Brutality Film: Race and Affect in Contemporary American Cinema (Intellect 2005)

He has had articles published on similar material including "The Affective City: Urban Black Bodies and Milieu in Menace II Society and Pulp Fiction " in Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice (Eds) Screening the City (Verso 2003) and "Trashing Whiteness: Pulp Fiction , Seven , Strange Days and Articulating Affect" in John Beasley-Murray and Alberto Moreiras (Eds.) (April 2001) Subaltern Affect special issue of Angelaki: A Theoretical Journal of the Humanities. He is also a regular contributor to darkmatter an independent online journal.

Shortform CV

Qualifications

• 2000: Ph.D in Film Studies. Thesis title: The New-Brutality Film: Affect, Race and Mimesis in American Cinema of the 1990s. Recipient of a British Academy three-year Research Grant, Birkbeck College/British Film Institute, University of London
• 1993: MA in Cultural Studies. Recipient of a British Academy One-Year Studentship. University of Leeds.
• 1991 BA in English Literature Class 1, University of Sheffield

Previous posts held

• Birkbeck College , Humanities Department (2/97-6/97)
  Visiting Lecturer in film on Gender and Culture MA.
• University of Greenwich, Humanities Department (2/96-6/97)
  Part-Time Lecturer in Psychoanalysis and Film.

• Contemporary film and cultural theory
• Cinema and affect

Undergraduate:

• Urban Film: Race, Nation and the Cinematic Body
• Film and Critical Theory
• Dissertation

Masters:

• Media Cultures

All publications post 2001:

Monographs

• The New-Brutality Film: Race and Affect In Contemporary American Film (Intellect 2005)

Book chapters

• "The Affective City: Urban Black Bodies and Milieu in Menace II Society and Pulp Fiction " in Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice (Eds) Screening the City Verso 2003 ISBN1-85984-476-6 pp.180-197

Journal articles

• "Trashing Whiteness: Pulp Fiction , Seven , Strange Days and Articulating Affect" in John Beasley-Murray and Alberto Moreiras (Eds.) (April 2001) Subaltern Affect special issue of Angelaki: A Theoretical Journal of the Humanities ISSN: 0969-725X pp.155-171

Reviews

• Crash and the City in darkmatter http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2007/05/07/crash-and-the-city/

Conference papers

• 'Contemporary Hollywood and the Problem of Meaning' on the "Beneath Representation" panel at the Crossroads Cultural Studies 2 nd International Conference, Tampere, Finland, July 2002
• 'Facing Off: Hong Kong, America and Spectacular Crossovers' given at 'Locations of Cinema' conference at School of Art and Design, Coventry University, April 2001
• 'Immediacy and Mimesis in Contemporary American Film, or Why Meaning Isn't Enough' at 'The Matter of Interpretation: Contemporary Issues in Film Theory' day conference at School of Art and Design, Coventry University, April 2000
• 'Affective London" given at 'Visual Culture in a Changing Society: Britain 1940-2000' Conference, University of Northumbria, July 2000.

• Crash and the City in darkmatter http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2007/05/07/crash-and-the-city/