Dr Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies. He has a PhD Film Studies (University of Warwick), MA Film and Television Studies (University of Warwick), and BA Film Studies and French (University of Kent). He was previously a Lecturer in Film at the University of Reading.
Dr Brown’s work is invested in combining methodologies derived from film historiography, film theory and the practice of close analysis in innovative ways. He is particularly interested in cinematic narration (agency, rhetoric, self-consciousness etc.), the theorisation and historicisation of film spectacle (especially in the genres of the musical and the historical film) and in film’s representation of history more broadly.
Theatre and Performance Publications
Books
Spectacle in “classical” cinemas : Musicality and historicity in the 1930s. / Brown, Tom.Taylor and Francis Inc., 2015.
Breaking the fourth wall : direct address in the cinema. / Brown, Tom.Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Articles and Book Chapters
The Performance of History in La Marseillaise. / Brown, Tom.A Companion to Jean Renoir. ed. / Alastair Phillips; Ginette Vincendeau. Chichester : WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2013. p. 425-443 (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors).
Spectacle and Value in Classical Hollywood Cinema. / Brown, Tom.Valuing Films: Shifting Perceptions of Worth. ed. / Laura Hubner. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. p. 49-67.