Dr Nick Rees-Roberts

Lecturer in French and Film Studies

Email: n.rees-roberts@bristol.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)117 928 8482

Address: University of Bristol, School of Modern Languages, 17 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK

Office hours: TB1 2011-2012: Mon 2-3; Tues 11-12

UOB Research Publications

Research Profile:

Fashion and the Moving Image: film and fashion; advertising, branding and screen media; history and theory of fashion and design

French Cinema Studies: queer cinema and queer theory; transnational cinema; stardom and masculinities; cultural approaches to film: gender, race and sexuality

My current comparative research focuses on the history and theory of fashion and the moving image from a global perspective. This project includes forthcoming outputs on:

• The history of the “fashion film” in advertising and branding. Coverage of the contemporary online digital “fashion film” appears in Poli: Politique de l’image, no. 5, 2011, pp. 99-112
• The fashion iconography of Hedi Slimane through transversal coverage of design, photography and digital video
• The convergence of luxury, fashion and moving-image media, focusing specifically on the design heritage and global expansion of a number of high-profile fashion brands including Christian Dior, Hermès and Yves Saint Laurent

Alongside this work on fashion and moving-image media, I have an established research profile in French cinema studies. French Queer Cinema, my first monograph, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2008. This was followed by Homo exoticus: race, classe et critique queer, co-written by Maxime Cervulle, published by Armand Colin and INA (Institut national de l’audiovisuel) in 2010. Homo exoticus examines questions of race and same-sexuality in French visual culture.

With my colleague Dr Darren Waldron at the University of Manchester, I am now co-editing a volume on screen icon Alain Delon. My own contribution takes a comparative look at the reception of the star’s image and fashion label in both European and Asian consumer cultures. This transnational focus on fashion and consumption will build on a previous publication on heritage and co-branding, “Men of Mode: Alain Delon, Christian Dior and Brand Heritage,” Film, Fashion and Consumption, 1 (1) 2011, pp. 81-99, available at www.intellectbooks.co.uk/File:download,aid=10769/ffc.1.1.81.pdf

Background:

Before coming to Bristol in 2007, I taught English, film and media at the Universities of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Paris IV (Sorbonne) and Paris - Dauphine. I have a BA in Modern Languages from Oxford University and a DPhil in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Sussex.

Teaching:

Postgraduate teaching and supervision for the MA in Cinema Studies and the MA in Modern Languages:

• Theories of Visual Culture: Text and Image
• European Cinemas: National or Transnational

Undergraduate Teaching:

• World Cinemas: from the National to the Transnational
• French Cinema: Aesthetics, Genres and Histories
• Contemporary French Cinema
• Gender and Sexuality in French Film

Graduate Supervision

I welcome inquires about postgraduate supervision on any of the following research areas: 

• Film and Fashion (history and theory of fashion in the context of international cinema)
• Fashion and Moving-Image Media (advertising, documentary, digital video)
• French Cinema: aesthetics, history and theory
• Film and Culture: theories of race, gender and sexuality
• Queer Cinema and Queer Theory

Top of page