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I write on cinema and I write creatively.

This is my most recent major publication. You can read more about it here. As of November 2018 it has been downloaded online 928 times.

You can read my latest article, on the French opera film, here in the journal Open Screens.

On this website you can find a full list of my publications with links to journal archives and author versions of book chapters.

I am currently working on two major projects: a co-authored history of the French film musical, and a co-edited collection on musical moments in film, emerging from a conference held in Salzburg in March 2018. In this collection my chapter will explore my conception of the ‘crystal-song’ in recent Hollywood films.

 

Recent publications

2014
‘Les chansons préexistantes dans le cinéma français’, Paris: Impressions nouvelles, 46-59.
2014
‘Luis Mariano et l’exotisme ordinaire’, Paris: Sorbonne nouvelle, 19-29.
2016
‘The location of the bicultural: the coast in three Maghrebi-French films’, London: Routledge, 75-90
2016
‘La chanson-cristal’, pp.65–84.
2016
2016. L’Une chante, l’autre pas: music, movement and the utopian community’, in Agnès Varda unlimited: image, music, media, edited by Marie-Claire Barnet, Oxford: Legenda, 45–64.
2017
‘Josephine Baker and Pierre Batcheff in La Sirène des tropiques (1927)’, pp.185-197.
2017
Selected essays on French cinema. Beijing: Encyclopedia of China Publishing. [Fourteen previously published articles and book chapters translated into Chinese by Li Lina]
2018
‘« Losing the plot » : le loser français et les masculinités à l’écran’, Limoges: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 31-52.
2018
‘La canción-cristal y la repetición’, Buenos Aires: Libraria, 21-35.

 

Update

Doctors in films

On 11 February 2019 I gave a talk on ‘Cinema and the medical profession’ at a conference in the University of Surrey on ‘Using Stories to Improve Health  Care’. The conference was organised jointly between Surrey, Texas Tech University and the University of Bari in Italy. Its aim was to exchange ideas in how to …

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School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK
p.powrie@surrey.ac.uk