Name: Steve Masters
Job: Teacher of Film Studies and English at Newcastle Royal Grammar School
Education:
1985-1988 BA (Hons) Librarianship, University of Northumbria
1995-1997 MA (w/ distinction) Film Studies, University of Newcastle;
2003-2009 PhD, Film Studies, University of Sunderland.
Conference papers/presentations:
‘Fair Game: Hunting the Woman in Gone to Earth and The Company of Wolves’. Michael Powell Centenary Conference, University of Bangor, September 2005.
‘That’s amore!’ Makeover narratives and the discourse of immigrant integration in Moonstruck and My Big Fat Greek Wedding’. Gender and National Identity in Film and Television Conference, UEA, forthcoming (June 2006).
‘A Comparative Approach to New Wave Cinema: A bout de souffle and Chungking Express’. Media Studies Conference, BFI Southbank (July 2006)
'Why Goldie Hawn matters: The mutability of star persona and the performance of femininity in the light of post-feminism' (research seminar), Sunderland University (forthcoming, October 2010)
Book review:
Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation By Andrew Klevan
http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/bookreview.php?issue=9&id=961
http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/bookreview.php?issue=9&id=961
Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies, 9, October 2007
Previous websites:
The Online Jean Renoir Resource Centre
http://uk.geocities.com/jeanrenoir@btinternet.com
(Time Out Film Guide 2007 - Recommended site; recommended in Christopher Faulkner’s Jean Renoir [Taschen, 2007])
