Phil Powrie

Professor Phil Powrie

Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies
BA Modern Languages (Oxford), MA (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford), Chevalier dans l鈥橭rdre des Palmes Acad茅miques

Academic and research departments

Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, Literature and Languages.

天美传媒

Phil Powrie with Greg Hainge at Phil's public lecture as part of the University of Queensland's Distinguished Visitor Programme August 2018

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Phil Powrie as Chair of BAFTSS opening the BAFTSS 2017 Conference in Bristol

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Phil Powrie as Chair of BAFTSS with Sarah Street, winner of the Best Book Award at the BAFTSS conference in London 2014

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Phil Powrie as Executive Dean opening the International Guitar Centre 2014, with the guitarist John Williams, Steve Goss, the Director of the Centre, and Nadine Powrie

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Phil Powrie as Executive Dean signing an MOU at the Taiwan Embassy in 2014

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Phil Powrie as Visiting Professor with Beijing Film Academy's PhD students in 2013

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Phil Powrie as Visiting Lecturer with the Head of Film at Shanghai Theatre Academy 2010

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Phil Powrie with the undergraduate film class at the Shanghai Theatre Academy 2010

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Phil Powrie reappointed as Visiting Professor at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing 2010

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Phil Powrie, Will Higbee and James Williams on the panel Phil and Peter Barta organised for the conference on Bicultural Literature and Film 2010

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Research

Research interests

Indicators of esteem

  • Distinguished Visitor Programme, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2018

  • Visiting Professor, Beijing Film Academy 2012-2014

  • Visiting Professor, Central Academy of Drama (Beijing) since 2005

  • Chevalier dans l鈥橭rdre des Palmes Acad茅miques 1999

Publications

Books

(2020). . Co-authored with Marie Cadalanu. London: Bloomsbury.

(2017). . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

(2017). Selected essays on French cinema: les hommes et les femmes dans le cin茅ma fran莽ais. Translated into Chinese by Li Lina. Beijing: Encyclopaedia of China Publishing.

(2009). . Co-authored with Eric Rebillard. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

(2007). . Co-authored with Ann Davies, Bruce Babington and Chris Perriam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Contains 鈥業ntroduction鈥, ix-xii; (with Ann Davies) 鈥楳apping Carmen鈥, 1-16; (with Ann Davies) 鈥楾heorizing Carmen鈥, 17-33; 鈥Carmen and the French cinema鈥, 107-08; 鈥楾wo silent Carmens (Calmettes, 1910; Feyder, 1926)鈥, 109-21; 鈥楯ean-Luc鈥檚 women (Godard, 1984)鈥, 122-31; 鈥楽ocial-realist fantasies (Rosi, 1984)鈥, 132-42; 鈥楢 postcolonial Carmen (Ramaka, 2001)鈥, 143-53; (with Bruce Babington) 鈥Carmen and stardom鈥, 191-92; 鈥榁iviane Romance鈥, 205-14; (with Ann Davies) 鈥楥onclusion鈥, 237-41.

(2002). . Co-authored with Keith Reader. London: Arnold/ Bloomsbury. Reprinted 2008. 

(2001). . Manchester University Press.

(1997). . Oxford: Clarendon Press.

(1997). . Translated with an Introduction by Phil Powrie. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen.

(1993). Compo pub. 2 vols. School of Modern Languages Publications, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

(1990). . Geneva: Droz.

(1989). . Translated by Phil Powrie. New York: Hanuman Books.

(1988). . London: Grant & Cutler/Boydell & Brewer.

Edited collections

(2023). . Edited with Anna Windisch and Claus Tieber. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Contains (with Anna Windisch and Claus Tieber) 鈥楩rom unheard to meaningful: when music takes over in film鈥, 1-11; 鈥楾he acoustic wound: reflections on the crystal-song in five American films鈥, 35-54.

(2016). . Edited with Peter I. Barta. London: Routledge. Contains (with Peter I. Barta) 鈥楤eing In Between鈥, 1-22; 鈥楾he location of the bicultural: the coast in three Maghrebi-French films鈥, 75-90.

(2014). , 4 vols. London: Routledge. Contains 鈥楪eneral introduction鈥, v.1, 1-22; 鈥楻esearch bibliography鈥, v.1, 23-68; (with Eric Rebillard) 鈥楯osephine Baker and Pierre Batcheff in La Sir猫ne des tropiques鈥,&苍产蝉辫;v.1, 227-238. Reprinted from Studies in French Cinema, 2008, 8:3, 245-64; 鈥楬eritage, History and the "New Realism"鈥,&苍产蝉辫;v.1, 373-386. Reprinted from Modern & Contemporary France, 1998, 6:4, 479-492; 鈥楥onfigurations of Melodrama: Nostalgia and Hysteria in Jean de Florette and Manon des sources鈥,&苍产蝉辫;v.3, 165-174. Reprinted from French Studies, 1992, 46:3, 296-305.

(2008). . Edited with Robynn J. Stilwell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Contains (with Robynn Stilwell) 鈥業ntroduction鈥, 1-15.

(2006). . Edited with Robynn J. Stilwell. Aldershot: Ashgate. Contains (with Robynn Stilwell) 鈥業ntroduction鈥, xiii-xix; 鈥楾he fabulous destiny of the accordion in French cinema鈥, 137-51.

(2006). . London: Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press. Contains 鈥業ntroduction鈥, 1-10; 鈥Nikita鈥, 197-206.

(2006). Edited with Susan Hayward. Manchester University Press. Contains (with Susan Hayward) 鈥業ntroduction鈥, 1-9; 鈥極f suits and men in the films of Luc Besson鈥, 75-89; 鈥尝茅辞苍 and the cloacal labyrinth鈥, 147-59.

(2004). . Edited with Ann Davies and Bruce Babington. London: Wallflower Press/ Columbia University Press. Contains (with Bruce Babington and Ann Davies) 鈥業ntroduction: turning the male inside out鈥, 1-15; 鈥楾he w/hole and the abject鈥, 207-17.

(1999). Oxford University Press. Contains 鈥楬eritage, history and 鈥渘ew realism鈥: French cinema in the 1990s鈥, 1-21.

(1991). . Edited with Margaret Atack. Manchester University Press. Contains (with Margaret Atack) 鈥業ntroduction鈥, 1-11; 鈥楻eading for pleasure: Marie Cardinal鈥檚 Les mots pour le dire and the text as (re)play of Oedipal configurations鈥, 163-76.

Special numbers of journals

(2020). 鈥樷, French Screen Studies 20(3-4).

(2018). (with Mary Harrod) 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 18(1).

(2015). (with Diane Gabrysiak) 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 15(3).

(2014). (with Guido Heldt) 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 8(2).

(2008). (with Susan Hayward) 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 8(1).

(2007). (with Susan Hayward) 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 7(2).

(2004). (with Susan Hayward) 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 4(1).

Articles and book chapters

(2026).  '',  in Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol. 13, Genres: International Part 1. A鈥揌o, edited by David Horn and John Shepherd, 699-714.

(2026).  '', in Music, Ideology, Commerce, and Popular Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s, edited by Michael Baumgartner and Ewelina Boczkowska, 128-150.

(2025).  (both with Marie Cadalanu), in Com茅dies musicales 脿 la fran莽aise. Formes et mutations de l'op茅rette cin茅matographique, edited by Marie Cadalanu and J茅r么me Rossi, Paris: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 100-113 and 365-382.

(2024). 鈥(鈥, in What have the French ever done for us? French contributions to Australia鈥檚 cultural life, edited by John West-Sooby, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 141-63.

(2024). 鈥樷, French Screen Studies, 24(1), 71鈥92.

(2023). 鈥樷, in Ageing masculinities in contemporary european and anglophone cinema, edited by T. Tracy and M. Schrage-Fr眉h, London: Routledge, 43-59.

(2021). (with Eric Rebillard) 鈥樷, 1895 Revue d鈥橦istoire du Cin茅ma, 93: 95-111.

(2021). (with Marie Cadalanu) 鈥樷, in Musicals at the margins: genre, boundaries, canons, edited by J. Lobalzo Wright and M. Shearer, London: Bloomsbury, 73-85.

(2020). 鈥樷, in Danielle Darrieux: la travers茅e d鈥檜n si猫cle, edited by G. Le Gras and G. Sellier, Bordeaux: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 61-74.

(2019). 鈥樷, Mise au point: Cahiers de l鈥橝FFECAV 12.

(2019). 鈥樷, in French literature on screen, edited by Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 90-106.

(2019). 鈥樷, Conna卯t-on la chanson? usages de la chanson dans les cin茅mas d鈥橢urope et d鈥橝m茅rique Latine depuis 1960, edited by S. Dufays, D. Nasta and M. Cadalanu, Bern: Peter Lang, 33-48.

(2020). (with Marie Cadalanu) 鈥樷, 197-221.

(2018). 鈥樷, 脡肠谤补苍蝉, 8-9: 41-57.

(2018). (with Mary Harrod) 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 18(1): 1-17. 

(2018). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Open Screens 1(1): 1-39.

(2018). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Conozco la canci贸n: melod铆as populares en los cines poscl谩sicos de Am茅rica Latina u Europa, edited by P. Piedras and S. Dufays, Buenos Aires: Libraria, 21-35.

(2018). 鈥樷, in La figure du loser dans le film et la litt茅rature d鈥檈xpression fran莽aise, edited by C. Edwards and F. C茅va毛r, Limoges: Presses universitaires de Limoges, 31-52.

(2017). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, 37(3): 436-454.

(2017). 鈥樷, in Agn猫s Varda unlimited: image, music, media, edited by M.-C. Barnet, Oxford: Legenda, 45-64.

(2017). (with 脡ric Rebillard) 鈥樷, in The Josephine Baker critical reader: selected writings on the entertainer and activist, edited by M. G. Henderson and C. B. Regester, Jefferson: McFarland & Co, 185-197.

(2016). 鈥樷, in La chanson dans le film fran莽ais et francophone depuis la Nouvelle Vague, edited by R. Lagabrielle and T. Oberg枚ker, W眉rzburg: K枚nigshausen & Neumann, 65鈥84.

(2015). (with Diane Gabrysiak) 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 15(3), 197-206.

(2015). 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 15(3), 207-224.

(2015).鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;A companion to contemporary French cinema, edited by A. Fox, M. Marie, R. Moine, and H. Radner, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 527-546.

(2014). (with Guido Heldt) Introduction: trailers, titles, and end credits鈥, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 8(2), 111-120.

(2014). 鈥樷, in S. Layerle and R. Moine (eds),&苍产蝉辫;罢丑茅辞谤猫尘别, sp. no. 鈥榁oyez comment on chante!: films musicaux et cin茅philies populaires en France (1945鈥1958), 20 : 19-29.

(2014). 鈥樷, in Musiques de films: nouveaux enjeux, edited by S. Abherv茅, N.T.Binh, J. Mour茅, Paris: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 46-59.

(2013). 鈥樷, Screen 54(2): 1-23.

(2013). 鈥樷, in A companion to Fran莽ois Truffaut, edited by D. Andrew and A. Gillain, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 184-204.

(2011). 鈥樷, sp.no. 鈥楳usique et cin茅ma: harmonie et contrepoints鈥, Inter-Lignes, 21-38.

(2011). 鈥樷, sp. no. 鈥榃atch this space: women鈥檚 conceptualisations of space in contemporary French film and visual art鈥, L鈥橢sprit cr茅ateur 51(1): 68-82.

(2011). 鈥樷, French Cultural Studies 22(2): 127-36.

(2011). (with Keith Reader) 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;French Studies in and for the twenty-first century, edited by P. Lane and M. Worton, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 171-83. 

(2011). 鈥樷, Studio Beineix, Lyon: Fage, 95-103. 

(2010). (with Eric Rebillard) 鈥樷, in Not so silent: women in cinema before sound, edited by S. Bull and A. S枚derbergh Widding, Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 236-47.

(2010). , edited by W. Higbee and S. Leahy, Bristol: Intellect Press. Contains 鈥楿nfamiliar places: 鈥渉eterospection鈥 and recent French films on children鈥, 57-68; 鈥楩our decades of teaching and research in French cinema鈥, 353-71.

(2009). 鈥樷, in Les Fictions patrimoniales sur grand et petit 茅cran: contours et enjeux d鈥檜n genre interm茅diatique, edited by P. Beylot and R. Moine, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 123-37.

(2008). (with Eric Rebillard) 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 8(3): 245-64.

(2008). (with Eric Rebillard) 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 8(2): 159-77.

(2008). 鈥樷, sp. no. 鈥楥inema and the senses鈥, Paragraph 31(3): 206-22.

(2008). (with Eric Rebillard) 鈥樷, in Marcel L鈥橦erbier: l鈥檃rt du cin茅ma, edited by L. V茅ray. Paris: Association Fran莽aise de Recherche sur l鈥橦istoire du Cin茅ma, 79-90.

(2007). 鈥樷, in La Fiction 茅clat茅e, vol 2. Petits et grands 茅crans fran莽ais et francophones: de l鈥檈sth茅tique 脿 l鈥櫭ヽonomie, edited by J.-P. Bertin-Maghit and G. Sellier, Paris: Institut National de l鈥橝udiovisuel/ L鈥橦armattan, 205-14.

(2007). 鈥樷, Affaires de famille: the family in contemporary French culture and theory, edited by M-C. Barnet and E. Welch, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 283-307.

(2007). 鈥樷, in European film noir: transgression, dissonance and hybridity, edited by A. Spicer, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 55-83.

(2006). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Marie Cardinal: new perspectives, edited by E. Webb, Bern: Peter Lang, 31-52.

(2006). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;European film music, edited by M. Mera and D. Burnand, Aldershot: Ashgate, 86-99.

(2006). 鈥樷, in Image into identity: constructing and assigning identity in a culture of modernity, edited by M. Wintle, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 223-36.

(2005). 鈥, sp. no. 鈥楾he child in film and television鈥, Screen 46(3): 341-52.

(2005). 鈥樷, Revisiting space: space and place in European cinema, edited by W. Everett and A. Goodbody, Bern: Peter Lang, 99-113.

(2005). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Le cin茅ma fran莽ais face aux genres, edited by R. Moine, Paris: Association Fran莽aise de Recherche sur le Cin茅ma, 213-22.

(2005). 鈥樷, in Pop fiction: the song in cinema, edited by M. Caley and S. Lannin, Exeter: Intellect, 99-119.

(2005). 鈥樷, in The media and the tourist imagination: converging cultures, edited by D. Crouch, F. Thompson and R. Jackson, London: Routledge, 143-153.

(2004). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Quarterly Review of Film and Video 21(4): 283-91.

(2004). 鈥樷, Studies in European Cinema 1(3): 141-51.

(2004). (with Eric Rebillard) 鈥樷, in Bu帽uel, siglo XXI, edited by I. Santaolalla et al., Zaragoza: Instituci贸n Fernando el Cat贸lico/ Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 413-418.

(2003). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Studies in French Cinema 3(3): 199-203.

(2003). 鈥樷, Paragraph 26(1-2): 232-44.

(2003). 鈥樷, Studies in French Cinema 3(1): 15-23.

(2003). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Popular music and film, edited by I. Inglis, London: Wallflower Press, 39-59.

(2003). 鈥樷, in Popular music in France from chanson to techno: culture, identity and society, edited by H. Dauncey and S. Cannon, Aldershot: Ashgate, 97-122. 

(2003). Two items in in , London: Quintet. Contains 鈥La Roue/The Wheel (1923)鈥, 50; Le Dernier combat/ The Last Battle (1983)鈥, 698.

(2003). 鈥樷, in French popular culture: an introduction, edited by H. Dauncey, London: Arnold, 119-34.

(2002). 鈥樷, Esprit Cr茅ateur 42(3): 81-91.

(2002). 鈥樷, Literature/Film Quarterly 30(2): 92-97.

(2002). 鈥樷, Journal of Romance Studies 1(3): 143-52.

(2002). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Studies in French Cinema 2(1): 50-58.

(2002). 鈥樷, in Fifty contemporary film-makers, edited by Y. Tasker, London: Routledge, 33-41.

(2001). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Gender and French cinema, edited by A. Hughes and J. Williams, Oxford: Berg, 195-208.

(2001). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;France on film: reflections on popular French cinema, edited by L. Mazdon, London: Wallflower Press, 133-44.

(2000). 鈥樷, Australian Journal of French Studies 37(1): 40-51.

(2000). 鈥樷, in The seeing century: film, vision, and identity, edited by W. Everett, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 20-35.

(2000). 鈥樷, British cinema: past and present, edited by A. Higson and J. Ashby, London: Routledge, 316-26.

(1998). 鈥樷, Screen 39(2): 153-63.

(1998). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Modern & Contemporary France 6(4): 479-92.

(1998). Contributions on French cinema for , edited by A. Hughes and K. Reader, London: Routledge.

(1996). 鈥樷, Modern & Contemporary France 4(2): 161-70.

(1996). 鈥楶arody and violation in Ren茅 Daumal鈥檚 Mugle鈥, sp.no. 鈥楽urrealism鈥, Aura, 24-35.

(1996). 鈥樷, in Surrealism: surrealist visuality, edited by S. Levy, Keele University Press, pp.57-77.

(1995). 鈥樷, sp.no. European film鈥,&苍产蝉辫;Forum for Modern Language Studies 31(1): 64-73.

(1994). (with Jane Bidder] 鈥, Women鈥檚 Studies 23(1): 57-68.

(1993).  鈥業nterpreting from a video source: teaching and evaluation鈥, in Integrating new approaches: the teaching of French in higher education, London: AFLS/CILT, 79-94.

(1993). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Word and Image 9(1): 19-28.

(1993). 鈥樷, special no. on French cinema, Nottingham French Studies 32(1): 109-20.

(1992). (with G. E. Hare) 鈥楧eveloping transferable personal skills in a business studies option of a French undergraduate degree鈥, in French and the enterprise path: developing transferable and professional skills, London: AFLS/CILT, 63-80.

(1992). 鈥樷, Modern Language Review 87(2): 320-29.

(1992). 鈥楻eflections on/from the ruined eye鈥,&苍产蝉辫;SuperReal: The British Journal of Surrealism 1: 6-13.

(1992). 鈥業nterpreting in the undergraduate French degree: a national survey 1990-1991鈥, Francophonie 4: 18-22.

(1992). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;French Studies 46(3): 296-305.

(1992). 鈥楢ngela Carter/Chantal Chawaf: rewriting the domestic鈥,&苍产蝉辫;New Comparisons 11: 127-36.

(1991). (with D.S. Place) 鈥楥omparing notes: interactive translating鈥, sp.no. 鈥楾he Teaching of Translation鈥, UEA Papers in Linguistics 31-32: 77-86.

(1991). 鈥樷, Quarterly Review of Film and Video 12(4): 19-32.

(1990).  (with G.E. Hare) 鈥榃orking in the permanent revolution: business and administrative French as a complement to a communicatively based core language course鈥,&苍产蝉辫;Association for French Language Studies Newsletter 26: 19-22.

(1990). 鈥楾ruffaut鈥檚 Vivement Dimanche! (1983), or, how to take away with one hand what you give with the other鈥, Modern & Contemporary France 43: 37-46.

(1990). 鈥樷, in French Cultural Studies 1: 247-56.

(1990). 鈥樷, French Studies Bulletin 37: 13-15.

(1990). 鈥樷, Romanic Review 81(4): 454-65.

(1990). 鈥樷, The Language Learning Journal 1: 83-85.

(1990). 鈥樷, in The body and the text: H茅l猫ne Cixous, reading and teaching, edited by H. Wilcox, K. McWatters, A. Thompson, L. Williams, New York: Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 78-86.

(1989). 鈥楽alon terrorism and the recycling of intellectual commodities: the case of Le Grand Jeu and Surrealism鈥, sp.no. 鈥楽urrealism鈥, La Chouette 22: 53-62.

(1989). 鈥樷, Neophilologus 73(4): 532-40.

(1989). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Paragraph 12(3): 197-213.

(1988). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;Film Criticism 12(3): 33-45.

(1988). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;French Studies 42(2): 177-93.

(1986). 鈥樷,&苍产蝉辫;The Year鈥檚 Work in Modern Language Studies 48: 260-81.

(1986). 鈥楥rossing the divide: language/culture integration鈥, Association for French Language Studies Newsletter 15: 20-33.