Dr David Archibald

- Lecturer (Theatre Film and Television Studies)
telephone: 01413303807
email: David.Archibald@glasgow.ac.uk
Office hours: Thursday 10-11am
Research Interests
- Film and journalism
- Film and history, specifically, cinematic representations of the Spanish civil war
- Currently conducting an ethnographic study of the making of Ken Loach’s latest film, The Angels’ Share
- Film Festivals – In addition to academic work in this area, he has attended numerous film festivals as the accredited delegate of publications such as Cineaste and Financial Times
- 2011 - Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish Government Arts & Humanities Small Grant ‘Tracking Loach in Scotland’
First Supervisor
- Robert Duffin: 'Edinburgh International Film Festival retrospectives'
- Andrew McWhirter ‘Film Criticism in the Digital Age’
- Convenor, MLitt in Film Journalism
- David has extensive experience as a journalist and critic. His work has appeared in over 20 outlets, including Cineaste, Film International, Financial Times, Guardian, and the BBC Movie Café. His recent Financial Times feature on the British Film Institute’s Ken Loach retrospective is available here.
- David recently co-directed The Mathematics of a Dream (Abridged), which premiered at the 2011 Kinemastic Short Film Festival in Malta.
- Editorial Board member of The Drouth, Scotland’s Literary Quarterly
- Board member of the Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
