School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr David Archibald

Davie Archibald
  • Lecturer (Theatre, Film and Television Studies)

telephone: 01413303807
email: David.Archibald@glasgow.ac.uk


Office hours: Wednesday 12-1pm

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
Jump to: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2006 | 2004
Number of items: 22.

2013

Archibald, D. (2013) Ken Loach and Peter Mullan. In: Balkind, N. (ed.) World Film Locations: Glasgow. Intellect. ISBN 9781841507194

Archibald, D. (2013) Recycling Basque history: patterns of the past in Vacas/Cows. Drouth, 45 . pp. 85-94. ISSN 1474-6190

2012

Archibald, D., and Miller, M. (2012) Full-Spectacle Dominance? An analysis of the Israeli state's attempts to control media images of the 2010 Gaza flotilla. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 5 (2). pp. 189-201. ISSN 1752-6272 (doi:10.1386/jwcs.5.2.189_1 )

Archibald, D. (2012) 'The Angels' Share' at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 2 (Autumn).

Archibald, D. (2012) The Tommy Sheridan Affair: A Scottish Tragedy. New Left Project .

Archibald, D. (2012) The War That Won't Die: The Spanish Civil war in Cinema. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719078088

2011

Archibald, David (2011) No Laughing Matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil War. In: Salmi, H. (ed.) Historical Comedy on Screen: Subverting History with Humour. Intellect . ISBN 9781841503677

Archibald, D. (2011) History in contemporary Scottish theatre. In: Brown, I. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 85-94. ISBN 978074864108

Archibald, D. (2011) Photography, the police and protest: images of the G-20, London 2009. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. (eds.) Transnational Protests and the Media. Series: Global Crises and the Media (10). Peter Lang, Oxford. ISBN 9781433109850

Archibald, D. (2011) The Spanish Civil War in cinema : an overview. Media Education Journal, 49 . pp. 32-34. ISSN 0268-1951

Archibald, D., and Miller, M. (2011) From Rennes to Toronto: anatomy of a boycott. Screen, 52 (2). pp. 274-279. ISSN 0036-9543 (doi:10.1093/screen/hjr015)

Archibald, D., and Miller, M. (2011) The film festivals dossier: introduction. Screen, 52 (2). pp. 249-252. ISSN 0036-9543 (doi:10.1093/screen/hjr013)

Archibald, David, Archibald, Daniel [co-directors], Burn, Tam Dean [narrator], Clark, Martin [cinematography], and Porr, Bernd [editor] (2011) The Mathematics of a Dream (Abridged) [Film]. [Performance]

2010

Archibald, David (2010) Kelman's Drama. In: Halmes, Scott (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 65-71. ISBN 9780748639632

2009

Archibald, D. (2009) The DA on cops. Drouth (32). pp. 15-19. ISSN 1474-6190

2008

Archibald, D. (2008) Boys and skirls : an organological union. Drouth (29). pp. 11-13. ISSN 1474-6190

Archibald, D. (2008) "We're just big bullies..." Gregory Burke's Black Watch. Drouth (26). pp. 8-13. ISSN 1474-6190

Archibald, D. (2008) A bogie man is haunting America. Drouth (30). pp. 15-17. ISSN 1474-6190

2006

Archibald, D. (2006) 'Carry on Comrade? No, hold on a minute!'. Drouth (21). pp. 71-77. ISSN 1474-6190

Archibald, D. (2006) From tickets to Tsotsi : cinema's means of representation. Drouth (19). pp. 43-45. ISSN 1474-6190

Archibald, D. (2006) The closing image : David Trueba's Soldados de Salamina. Drouth (20). pp. 57-59. ISSN 1474-6190

2004

Archibald, D. (2004) Re-framing the past: representations of the Spanish Civil War in popular Spanish cinema. In: Lazaro-Reboll, A. and Willis, A. (eds.) Spanish Popular Cinema. Series: Inside popular film . Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719062827

This list was generated on Wed Jun 19 15:10:58 2013 BST.
  • 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’

 

 

Administration

  • Convenor of Postgraduate Committee, School of Culture and Creative Arts

External Responsibilities

  • 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