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Graham Barnfield

Position: Lecturer in Journalism & Print Media

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All publications post 2001:

Book chapters

• 2004/'V.F. Calverton'/Dictionary of Literary Biography 274: American Radical and Reform Writers/Steven Rosendale (ed.)/Gale Research Press/forthcoming
• 2002/ ‘From Direct Cinema to Car Wreck Video: Reality TV and the Crisis of Content/Reality TV: How Real is Real?/Dolan Cummings/Hodder & Stoughton Debating Matters/pp.47-66/0340857358
• 2001/'Federal Arts Policy and Political Legitimation'/ Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture/Nancy Beck Young; William Pederson; Byron W. Daynes (eds.)/ M.E. Sharpe/pp. Chapter 3/0-7656-0620-8.

Journal articles

December 2003 'A Reversal of Fortune: Culture and the Crisis, Yesterday and Today' Working Papers on the Web/ Vol. 1/No. 5/ISSN 1478-3703
[www.shu.ac.uk/wpw/thirties/]

Long Book Reviews:

Andrew Hemingway, Artists on the Left; Paula Rabinowitz, Black & White & Noir in Historical Materialism 11: 4 (pp. 413-421)/ ISSN:

Periodical and newspaper articles

• 2003-12-05/ Times Higher Education Supplement/'Don's Diary: Taking Snaps in Miami' /p.15
• 2003-06-06/ Times Higher Education Supplement/ ‘Foibles of Reds who did’t run from God’/p.30.
• 2002-10/Intermedia Vol.30, No. 4/ John Howkins, The Creative Economy.
• 2002/June/Crime Time No. 27/'The Urban Landscape of Marxist Noir': An Interview with Alan M. Wald/

Conference papers

• 06-12-2003/chair of panel discussion/’Future Cities’ [www.transportresearch.org.uk]
• 3 November 2003‘Gothic Manifestos: The Novels of VF Calverton’at The Noise of History conference [www.geocities.com/thenoiseofhistory2003/p.htm]
• "V. F. Calverton and the Sociological Gothic Novel", Pulp Modernism, Racial Cross-Dressing, and the Left panel, Modernist Studies Association Conference, MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION 5th ANNUAL CONFERENCE, September 25th–28th, 2003
• 24 March 2003"V. F. Calverton’s Dystopian Fantasy”, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

Editorships/panel committee memberships

• Peer reviewer for Cultural Trends (2002+)
• Editor, Raindance Festival Daily 2001
• Contributing editor, Offence (Libero! Football Supporters' Network); former Britart.com web content provider
• Series editor for Culture Matter: Communications, Media & Communities (Sheffield Hallam University Press)

Media/art outputs

Feature Films:

• Number One, Longing. Number Two, Regret (World on Fire, 2003), as ‘Wood’s Guy’(forthcoming)
• Mr. In-Between (Phantom Pictures/Spice Factory, 2001), as ‘Dancing Party Guest’(general release 3 October)

Short Films:

• Good Morning Mr. Burpus (Delirium Films, 2003), as ‘Guther Burpus’(screened at NFT, July 2003)
• Is This Your Friday Night? (Wildman, 2002), as ‘The Bouncer’
• Black Soles (Mute Marmalade, 2001), as ‘Gaoler’

On-line Journalism:

• 2004/ Intensities 4/book review of Fred Botting and Scott Wilson: The Tarantinian Ethics
• 2004 February/ Scope /book review of Jackie Harrison, Terrestrial TV News in Britain: The Culture of Production
• Culturewars website: Book reviews of Stephen Mulhall, On Film; Michael Grant (ed.) The Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg; film reviews of Spun (Jonas Åkerlund); Seabiscuit (Gary Ross); Mister V (Emilie Deleuze); Milwaukee, Minnesota (Allan Mindel); Mr In-Between (Paul Sarossy); 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson); The Criminal (Julian Simpson); Damnation (Bela Tarr); The Monkey's Mask (Samantha Lang); Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso)

COMMENT PIECES:

• 'Cultural Depression: Seabiscuit and Dogville give differing views of 1930s America', posted at Spiked, November 2003; 'Killing Kill Bill', posted at Spiked, October 2003; 'From One Extreme to Another', posted at Spiked, August 2003; 'Big Brother - Why Bother?', posted at Spiked, June 2003
• PROFILES FOR LONDON FILM FESTIVAL WEBSITE: Adrien Brody; Patricia Cardoso; Michael Haneke; Isabelle Huppert Guardian interview; Shohei Imamura; Cathy Malkasian

Research Grants

• 2003/Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship/The Wolfsonian-FIU/$1700 + subsistence
• 2003/British Academy Overseas Conference Grant/The British Academy/£394

Key publications pre 2001:

• 'The Novel as Propaganda: Revisiting the Debate' in Bertrand Taithe and Tim Thornton (eds.), Propaganda: Political Rhetoric and Identity 1300-2000 (Stroud: Sutton, 1999).
• 'Marathon Dances and the Fiction of the Depression: The Eschatology of the Closed Frontier', Overhere Vol. 16, No.1 (Summer 1996).
• 'Hard-Boiled Cities: Dashiell Hammett’s Democratic Moment and Beyond’, Diatribe Vol. 1, No. 6 (Winter-Spring 1996).
• 'Defective Agency’(r. Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction by Woody Haut), Prometheus Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 2000).
• Occasional Paper: ‘Addressing Estrangement: Federal Arts Patronage and National Identity Under the New Deal’, Communications, Media and Communities Research Centre Occasional Paper, Sheffield Hallam University

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