School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr Ian Garwood

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  • Lecturer (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

telephone: 01413306868
email: Ian.Garwood@glasgow.ac.uk


Office hours: Thursday 12-2pm

Research Interests

Ian’s research interests include storytelling processes in the fiction film, the sensuous aspects of film narration, the film and television soundtrack, Bollywood, Classical Hollywood, American Independent Cinema and German cinema. His work combines an interest in cultural and production contexts with a dedication to close textual analysis.

Biography

In 1999, Ian completed his PhD on ‘Popular Music and Characterisation in Narrative Cinema’ at the University of Warwick, supervised by Professor Richard Dyer. He has been a lecturer at University of Glasgow since September 2000.

Research Projects

Ian is currently completing the book, ‘The Sense of Film Narration’ for Edinburgh University Press (to be published 2012). He convenes the School’s Sound and Moving Image Research Group, a collective interested in the study and practice of the soundtrack in different audio-visual media. The research group is interested in collaborating with academics and practitioners outside of the School. Please contact Ian if you want to join this research group.

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2009

Garwood, I. (2009) Great art on a jukebox: the romantic(ized) voice of Bob Dylan in 'I'm Not There'. Film International, 7 (6). pp. 6-22. ISSN 1651-6826 (doi:10.1386/fiin.7.6.6)

2008

Garwood, I. (2008) Sound and space in the split-screen movie. Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, 14 . ISSN 1447-4905

2006

Garwood, I. (2006) The songless Bollywood film. South Asian Popular Culture, 4 (2). pp. 169-183. ISSN 1474-6697 (doi:10.1080/14746680600797210)

Garwood, I. (2006) Shifting pitch: the Bollywood song sequence in the Anglo-American market. In: Eleftheriotis, D. and Needham, G. (eds.) Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 346-357. ISBN 0748617779

Garwood, I. (2006) The pop song in film. In: Gibbs, J. and Pye, D. (eds.) Close Up 1: Filmmakers' Choices/The Pop Song in Film/Reading Buffy. Wallflower Press, pp. 89-166. ISBN 1904764576

2003

Garwood, I. (2003) Must you remember this? Orchestrating the "standard" pop song in Sleepless in Seattle. In: Dickinson, K. (ed.) Movie Music, the Film Reader. Series: In focus - Routledge film readers . Routledge, London, UK, pp. 109-117. ISBN 9780415281591

2002

Garwood, I. (2002) The autorenfilm in contemporary German cinema. In: Bergfelder, T, Carter, E. and Gokruk, D. (eds.) The German Cinema Book. The British Film Institute, pp. 202-210. ISBN 085170946X

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2010: Carnegie Trust Grant to support research at Lux experimental film archive, London

I welcome PhD applications from students in the areas of the soundtrack in audio-visual media, storytelling in the fiction film, the supporting character/actor in film and television, American Independent Cinema, Classical Hollywood, German Cinema and Bollywood.

Current PhD students

  • Robert Anderson: 'A Social History of the Glasgow Popular Music Scene since 1979.'
  • Rebecca Bartlett: 'The Aesthetics of the ‘Bad’ Movie.'
  • Nessa Johnston: 'Sound in Lo-Fi Digital Cinema.'
  • Helen Wright: Paul Verhoeven as Queer Director.'

I have supervised a number of PhDs to successful completion. These include theses on masculinity in the serial killer film, violence in Italian popular cinema, the visual music film, and innovations in the contemporary US television sitcom.

Teaching (2010/2011)

  • Level One: Reading the Screen Cinema
  • Honours Option: New German Cinema and Its Contexts
  • Honours Option: Television Production One (critical essay component)
  • MLitt Option: Multi-Strand Narratives in the Fiction Film
  • Dissertation supervision (Level 3, Honours, MLitt)

Administration

  • FTV Honours convener
  • FTV Exams convener
  • FTV Honours Dissertation convener
  • Production Course Liaison
  • Convenor, Sound and Moving Image Research Group
  • Careers and Creative Opportunities website moderator
  • Creative Practice Fund convener
  • Adviser of Studies

Forthcoming Publications

The Sense of Film Narration (monograph), Edinburgh University Press, 2012
‘Voice in Rotoshop Animation’, Animation: an Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012