Professor David Archibald

  • Professor of Political Cinemas (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

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

R308 Level 3, TFTV Studies, Gilmorehill Halls, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611

Research interests

Research Interests

  • Film and history, specifically, cinematic representations of the Spanish civil war
  • Politics: most of David’s work locates cultural production within broader social and political contexts. He is particularly interested in radical cultural activity
  • Creative Research: David has worked on seven short films, including the multi-award winning documentary, Govan Young (2017), which he produced and co-directed. You can view the film here
  • In 2016 David established the performance project Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues with Carl Lavery. You can read an early profile on their activities here

 Biography

  • 2014-present – Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
  • 2009-2014 – Lecturer, University of Glasgow
  • 2006-2009 – University Teacher, University of Glasgow
  • 2005-2006 - Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art
  • 1999-2004 - PhD: Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Cinema, University of Glasgow
  • 1995-1999 - MA (Hons) First Class. Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow

Publications

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Number of items: 78.

2024

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Te recuerdo Amanda [Music Video]. [Film]

Araüna Baró, Núria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-2833 and Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Métodos creativos para un feminismo dialógico. Tejiendo alianzas translocales a partir del audiovisual = Creative methods for a dialogic feminism. Weaving translocal alliances through audiovisual media. In: Gómez, Postigo and Sánchez, Malely Linares (eds.) Hacia la Igualdad de Géneros: Comunicación para el Empoderamiento Femenino = Towards Gender Equality: Communication for the Female Empowerment. Series: Comunicación y Agenda 2030 = Communication and Agenda 2030. Editorial UOC. ISBN 9788411660532

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Clydebuilt: Ships, masculinities, bananas [essay to accompany Blu-Ray]. In: Big Banana Feet. British Film Institute.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Peat Bog Soldiers: How an experimental Scottish band contributed to a concentration camp archive in Germany. Conversation,

Araüna Baró, Nuria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-2833 and Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Ragged Cinema. Left Cultures, Issue 3.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Another ‘Poor Things’ is Possible. Drouth,

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) The Owl of Minerva [Music Video]. [Film]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Peat Bog Soldiers [Music Video]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Whittle, Simon (2024) Peter Pike or Pink [Music Video]. [Performance]

2023

Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZQC5P) [Exhibitions]

Araüna Baró, Núria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-2833 and Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2023) Ragged Cinema: Twelve theses on the making of Comrades together-apart / Camarades junts-i-a-banda (Araüna Baró and Archibald, Catalonia/Scotland, 2021). Framework, 63(1-2), pp. 13-24.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2023) Gregory's Girl [essay to accompany Blu-Ray]. In: Gregory’s Girl'. British Film Institute.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2023) Hymning Glasgow. Left Cultures, Issue 2.

2022

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2022) Tracking Loach: Politics, Practices, Production. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474442114

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2022) Returning to Comrades. In: Watts, Amelia and Wickham, Phil (eds.) Bill Douglas: A Film Artist. University of Exeter Press: Exeter. ISBN 978180413025420

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Skrynka, Stephen (2022) Thanopticon: looking death in the eye. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2022) Just Another Saturday [essay to accompany Blu-Ray]. In: Play for Today: Volume Three. British Film Institute.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2022) A History of Glasgow in Song. [Performance]

2021

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2021) The Elephants' Graveyard / Just A Boys' Game [essay to accompany Blu-Ray]. In: Play for Today: Volume Two. British Film Institute.

Araüna Baró, Núria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-2833 and Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2021) Feminism and film: a dialogue. Drouth, 2 Jan.

Araüna Baró, Núria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-2833 and Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2021) Comrades together-apart / Camarades junts-i-a-banda [Film]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2021) Unhappy the land in need of ‘heroic’ men. Drouth, 67,

2020

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Yeoman, Finn Daniels (2020) Dialogical encounters on the cinema of revolution: Save the Children Fund Film and Metalepsis in Black. In: Mazierska, Ewa and Kristensen, Lars (eds.) Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism. Bloomsbury Academic: London. ISBN 9781501348273

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2020) Spaces of the possible: developing the Radical Film Network in Scotland. In: Presence, Steve, Wayne, Mike and Newsinger, Jack (eds.) Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisations and Activists. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 69-78. ISBN 9781138543607 (doi: 10.4324/9781351006385-6)

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) Drifting with Debord [Film]. [Performance]

2019

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) From street to screen: Debord’s drifting cinema. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 109-119. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1558427)

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2019) Los primeros años de la BBC. In: Montero Díaz, Julio and Martín Jiménez, Virginia (eds.) La televisión en Europa: la historia de sus orígenes. Tirant lo Blanch: Valencia. ISBN 9788417973247

2018

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611, Driscoll, Stephen T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4943-2571, Doherty, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1495-1857 and Perry, Mia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-7093 (2018) Dossier on Govan Young: Exploring children’s historical consciousness through film and archaeology. Film Education Journal, 1(2), pp. 193-208. (doi: 10.18546/FEJ.01.2.07)

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2018) Loach and acting: seven fragments. Drouth, 60, pp. 37-43.

2017

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2017) Glasgow: RFN 16. Screenworks, 7(3),

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2017) Team Loach and Sixteen Films: authorship, collaboration, leadership (and football). In: Mazierska, Ewa and Kristensen, Lars (eds.) Contemporary Cinema and Ideology: Neoliberal Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Filmmaking. Routledge: New York and London, pp. 25-41. ISBN 9781138235731

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2017) Revolution, my arse [essay to accompany Blu-Ray]. In: Three Films by Ken Loach: Riff-Raff; Raining Stones; Ladybird Ladybird. British Film Institute.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2017) Housekeeping [essay to accompany DVD]. In: Housekeeping ; A film by Bill Forsyth. Indicator.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611, Clark, M. and Connolly, C. (2017) Govan Young [Film]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2017) Glasgow glam rock dialogues. Drouth, 57, pp. 65-77.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2017) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 5-1967. [Performance]

2016

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611, McGoff, J. and McIlwraith, D. (2016) Glasgow: RFN 16 [Film]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Activists unite for city’s radical film network festival. National, 2016, 28 Apr.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Culloden. In: Culloden/The War Games [DVD]. British Film Institute.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Displaying the contemporary: the revolution cannot take its cinema from the past but only from the future. Drouth, 55, pp. 3-8.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Drouth Special Issue: Radical [Volume editor]. Drouth, 55,

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Editorial. Drouth, 55, pp. 2-3.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Where is the BBC's experimentation? National, 2016, 20 Oct.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 1 - Work. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 2 - Luxury. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 3 - Commune. [Performance]

2015

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Velez-Serna, Maria (2015) Joining up: Scotland, cinema and the First World War. [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies,

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Rodger, Johnny (2015) St Peter's Seminary, Cardross. Performance Research, 20(3), pp. 103-111. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1049043)

2014

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2014) Filmmaking in Scotland. Discussion Paper. Scottish Parliament, Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee, Edinburgh.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2014) An independent Scotland could become a film powerhouse. Conversation,

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2014) Should Scotland have an independent film industry? Our Kingdom (Online),

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2014) The Devil’s backbone. Cineaste, 39, pp. 55-56.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2014) Kitchen-sink fantasy.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Velez-Serna, Maria (2014) Kilts, tanks, and aeroplanes: Scotland, cinema, and the First World War. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 3(2), pp. 155-175. (doi: 10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.ARCH)

2013

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2013) Why there’s more to Scottish cinema than dour miserablism. Financial Times,

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2013) Ken Loach and Peter Mullan. In: Balkind, N. (ed.) World Film Locations: Glasgow. Intellect. ISBN 9781841507194

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2013) Recycling Basque history: patterns of the past in Vacas/Cows. Drouth, 45, pp. 85-94.

2012

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 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. (doi: 10.1386/jwcs.5.2.189_1)

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2012) 'The Angels' Share' at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 2(Autumn),

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2012) The Tommy Sheridan Affair: A Scottish Tragedy. New Left Project,

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2012) The War That Won't Die: The Spanish Civil war in Cinema. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719078088

2011

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2011) No laughing matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil War in Cinema. In: Salmi, H. (ed.) Historical Comedy on Screen: Subverting History with Humour. Intellect: Bristol, UK, pp. 113-127. ISBN 9781841503677

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2011) Reeling from injustice. Financial Times,

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2011) The Spanish Civil War in cinema : an overview. Media Education Journal, 49, pp. 32-34.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Miller, M. (2011) The film festivals dossier (dossier co-editor). Screen, 52(2), pp. 249-252. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjr013)

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Miller, M. (2011) From Rennes to Toronto: anatomy of a boycott. Screen, 52(2), pp. 274-279. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjr015)

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611, Archibald, Daniel [co-directors], Burn, Tam Dean [narrator], Clark, Martin [cinematography] and Porr, Bernd [editor] ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8157-998X (2011) The Mathematics of a Dream (Abridged) [Film]. [Performance]

2010

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2009) The DA on cops. Drouth(32), pp. 15-19.

2008

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2008) A bogie man is haunting America. Drouth(30), pp. 15-17.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2008) Boys and skirls : an organological union. Drouth(29), pp. 11-13.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2008) "We're just big bullies..." Gregory Burke's Black Watch. Drouth(26), pp. 8-13.

2006

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2006) 'Carry on Comrade? No, hold on a minute!'. Drouth(21), pp. 71-77.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2006) The closing image : David Trueba's Soldados de Salamina. Drouth(20), pp. 57-59.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2006) From tickets to Tsotsi : cinema's means of representation. Drouth(19), pp. 43-45.

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

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Number of items: 78.

Articles

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Peat Bog Soldiers: How an experimental Scottish band contributed to a concentration camp archive in Germany. Conversation,

Araüna Baró, Nuria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-2833 and Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Ragged Cinema. Left Cultures, Issue 3.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Another ‘Poor Things’ is Possible. Drouth,

Araüna Baró, Núria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-2833 and Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2023) Ragged Cinema: Twelve theses on the making of Comrades together-apart / Camarades junts-i-a-banda (Araüna Baró and Archibald, Catalonia/Scotland, 2021). Framework, 63(1-2), pp. 13-24.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2023) Hymning Glasgow. Left Cultures, Issue 2.

Araüna Baró, Núria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-2833 and Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2021) Feminism and film: a dialogue. Drouth, 2 Jan.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2021) Unhappy the land in need of ‘heroic’ men. Drouth, 67,

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2019) From street to screen: Debord’s drifting cinema. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 109-119. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1558427)

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611, Driscoll, Stephen T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4943-2571, Doherty, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1495-1857 and Perry, Mia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-7093 (2018) Dossier on Govan Young: Exploring children’s historical consciousness through film and archaeology. Film Education Journal, 1(2), pp. 193-208. (doi: 10.18546/FEJ.01.2.07)

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2018) Loach and acting: seven fragments. Drouth, 60, pp. 37-43.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2017) Glasgow: RFN 16. Screenworks, 7(3),

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2017) Glasgow glam rock dialogues. Drouth, 57, pp. 65-77.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Activists unite for city’s radical film network festival. National, 2016, 28 Apr.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Displaying the contemporary: the revolution cannot take its cinema from the past but only from the future. Drouth, 55, pp. 3-8.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Drouth Special Issue: Radical [Volume editor]. Drouth, 55,

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Editorial. Drouth, 55, pp. 2-3.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Where is the BBC's experimentation? National, 2016, 20 Oct.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Velez-Serna, Maria (2015) Joining up: Scotland, cinema and the First World War. [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies,

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Rodger, Johnny (2015) St Peter's Seminary, Cardross. Performance Research, 20(3), pp. 103-111. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2015.1049043)

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2014) An independent Scotland could become a film powerhouse. Conversation,

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2014) Should Scotland have an independent film industry? Our Kingdom (Online),

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2014) The Devil’s backbone. Cineaste, 39, pp. 55-56.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2014) Kitchen-sink fantasy.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Velez-Serna, Maria (2014) Kilts, tanks, and aeroplanes: Scotland, cinema, and the First World War. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 3(2), pp. 155-175. (doi: 10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.ARCH)

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2013) Why there’s more to Scottish cinema than dour miserablism. Financial Times,

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2013) Recycling Basque history: patterns of the past in Vacas/Cows. Drouth, 45, pp. 85-94.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 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. (doi: 10.1386/jwcs.5.2.189_1)

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2012) 'The Angels' Share' at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 2(Autumn),

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2012) The Tommy Sheridan Affair: A Scottish Tragedy. New Left Project,

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2011) Reeling from injustice. Financial Times,

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2011) The Spanish Civil War in cinema : an overview. Media Education Journal, 49, pp. 32-34.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Miller, M. (2011) The film festivals dossier (dossier co-editor). Screen, 52(2), pp. 249-252. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjr013)

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Miller, M. (2011) From Rennes to Toronto: anatomy of a boycott. Screen, 52(2), pp. 274-279. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjr015)

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2009) The DA on cops. Drouth(32), pp. 15-19.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2008) A bogie man is haunting America. Drouth(30), pp. 15-17.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2008) Boys and skirls : an organological union. Drouth(29), pp. 11-13.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2008) "We're just big bullies..." Gregory Burke's Black Watch. Drouth(26), pp. 8-13.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2006) 'Carry on Comrade? No, hold on a minute!'. Drouth(21), pp. 71-77.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2006) The closing image : David Trueba's Soldados de Salamina. Drouth(20), pp. 57-59.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2006) From tickets to Tsotsi : cinema's means of representation. Drouth(19), pp. 43-45.

Books

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2022) Tracking Loach: Politics, Practices, Production. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474442114

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2012) The War That Won't Die: The Spanish Civil war in Cinema. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719078088

Book Sections

Araüna Baró, Núria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-2833 and Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Métodos creativos para un feminismo dialógico. Tejiendo alianzas translocales a partir del audiovisual = Creative methods for a dialogic feminism. Weaving translocal alliances through audiovisual media. In: Gómez, Postigo and Sánchez, Malely Linares (eds.) Hacia la Igualdad de Géneros: Comunicación para el Empoderamiento Femenino = Towards Gender Equality: Communication for the Female Empowerment. Series: Comunicación y Agenda 2030 = Communication and Agenda 2030. Editorial UOC. ISBN 9788411660532

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Clydebuilt: Ships, masculinities, bananas [essay to accompany Blu-Ray]. In: Big Banana Feet. British Film Institute.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2023) Gregory's Girl [essay to accompany Blu-Ray]. In: Gregory’s Girl'. British Film Institute.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2022) Returning to Comrades. In: Watts, Amelia and Wickham, Phil (eds.) Bill Douglas: A Film Artist. University of Exeter Press: Exeter. ISBN 978180413025420

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2022) Just Another Saturday [essay to accompany Blu-Ray]. In: Play for Today: Volume Three. British Film Institute.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2021) The Elephants' Graveyard / Just A Boys' Game [essay to accompany Blu-Ray]. In: Play for Today: Volume Two. British Film Institute.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Yeoman, Finn Daniels (2020) Dialogical encounters on the cinema of revolution: Save the Children Fund Film and Metalepsis in Black. In: Mazierska, Ewa and Kristensen, Lars (eds.) Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism. Bloomsbury Academic: London. ISBN 9781501348273

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2020) Spaces of the possible: developing the Radical Film Network in Scotland. In: Presence, Steve, Wayne, Mike and Newsinger, Jack (eds.) Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisations and Activists. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 69-78. ISBN 9781138543607 (doi: 10.4324/9781351006385-6)

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2019) Los primeros años de la BBC. In: Montero Díaz, Julio and Martín Jiménez, Virginia (eds.) La televisión en Europa: la historia de sus orígenes. Tirant lo Blanch: Valencia. ISBN 9788417973247

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2017) Team Loach and Sixteen Films: authorship, collaboration, leadership (and football). In: Mazierska, Ewa and Kristensen, Lars (eds.) Contemporary Cinema and Ideology: Neoliberal Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Filmmaking. Routledge: New York and London, pp. 25-41. ISBN 9781138235731

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2017) Revolution, my arse [essay to accompany Blu-Ray]. In: Three Films by Ken Loach: Riff-Raff; Raining Stones; Ladybird Ladybird. British Film Institute.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2017) Housekeeping [essay to accompany DVD]. In: Housekeeping ; A film by Bill Forsyth. Indicator.

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2016) Culloden. In: Culloden/The War Games [DVD]. British Film Institute.

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2013) Ken Loach and Peter Mullan. In: Balkind, N. (ed.) World Film Locations: Glasgow. Intellect. ISBN 9781841507194

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2011) No laughing matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil War in Cinema. In: Salmi, H. (ed.) Historical Comedy on Screen: Subverting History with Humour. Intellect: Bristol, UK, pp. 113-127. ISBN 9781841503677

Archibald, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (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, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2010) Kelman's Drama. In: Halmes, Scott (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 65-71. ISBN 9780748639632

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

Research Reports or Papers

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2014) Filmmaking in Scotland. Discussion Paper. Scottish Parliament, Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee, Edinburgh.

Exhibitions

Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZQC5P) [Exhibitions]

Performance

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Peat Bog Soldiers [Music Video]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Whittle, Simon (2024) Peter Pike or Pink [Music Video]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Skrynka, Stephen (2022) Thanopticon: looking death in the eye. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2022) A History of Glasgow in Song. [Performance]

Araüna Baró, Núria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-2833 and Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2021) Comrades together-apart / Camarades junts-i-a-banda [Film]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2020) Drifting with Debord [Film]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611, Clark, M. and Connolly, C. (2017) Govan Young [Film]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2017) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 5-1967. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611, McGoff, J. and McIlwraith, D. (2016) Glasgow: RFN 16 [Film]. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 1 - Work. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 2 - Luxury. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 and Lavery, Carl ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-0767 (2016) Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 3 - Commune. [Performance]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611, Archibald, Daniel [co-directors], Burn, Tam Dean [narrator], Clark, Martin [cinematography] and Porr, Bernd [editor] ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8157-998X (2011) The Mathematics of a Dream (Abridged) [Film]. [Performance]

Film

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) Te recuerdo Amanda [Music Video]. [Film]

Archibald, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1490-1611 (2024) The Owl of Minerva [Music Video]. [Film]

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Grants

  • 2018 - Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Doctoral Scholarship: ‘Human Rights Film Festivals in the Global South’
  • 2018 – University of Glasgow KE Fund: Drifting with Debord
  • 2016 – Creative Scotland: Radical Film Network Festival
  • 2016 – Film Hub Scotland: Radical Film Network Festival
  • 2016 – University of Glasgow KE Fund: Radical Film Cultures in Scotland
  • 2015 – Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Applied Research Collaborative Scholarship: ‘Document Human Rights Film Festival: Politics, Programmes, Practices’
  • 2014 - Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland: Tracking Loach, an analysis of Ken Loach’s working practices
  • 2014 - Heritage Lottery Fund: Doomster Hill, an experimental documentary about medieval Govan
  • 2013 – Historic Scotland: Doomster Hill
  • 2012 - University of Glasgow Chancellor’s Fund: Doomster Hill
  • 2011 - Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish Government Arts & Humanities Small Grant: Tracking Loach in Scotland
  • 2011 - University of Glasgow, John Robertson Bequest: the making of The Angels’ Share (Loach, 2012)
  • 2008-11 – AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, ‘Edinburgh International Film Festivals Retrospectives’

Supervision

David has over a decade’s experience of supervising PhD students. He is particularly interested in supervising research projects – both traditional written and practice-research theses - which situate cultural activity within broader political landscapes. His current PhD students are listed below:

  • Atkinson, Jonathan
    How might an engagement with politically charged contemporary psychoanalytic film theory energise radical British film culture?
  • Goldbach, Mark
    The Past is Ours, Too: Reclaiming Immigrant Traumas in Film and TV

Teaching

David has taught a range of modules across all levels of study.
He currently convenes the Level Two Film and Television Studies programme and the Master’s-level course on Festivals. He also teaches on the Advanced Topics in Film And Television Studies.

Additional information

External Responsibilities

  • David is invited regularly to present his research at conferences, festivals and seminars, both at home and further afield. Invited international presentations include in Finland, France, Greece, India, South Korea, Spain, The Netherlands and Turkey
  • David is actively involved in film culture in Scotland. He served as a Board member of Africa in Motion (2012-14) and is currently a board member of Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (2011-present) and Glasgow Film (2015-present)
  • David was the Overall Coordinator of the 2016 Radical Film Network Festival and Unconference
  • David organized two symposiums with Glasgow Short Film Festival: ‘Independence and the Film Industry in Scotland’ (2014) and ‘Short Films and Criticism’ (2015)
  • David has extensive experience as a journalist and critic. His work has appeared in over thirty outlets, including Cineaste, Film International, Financial Times, and Guardian
  • David has made numerous media appearances on radio and television and has been interviewed by newspapers in relation to both cinema and aspects of Scotland’s cultural and political landscape. These include: BBC News; BBC World; BBC Scotland; BBC Radio Scotland; Radio 5 Live; The Economist, Huffington Post; Die Welte; Radio France Internationale, STV and New York Times
  • David has served as Jury Member for a number of film and television organisations, including BAFTA Scotland and Edinburgh International Film Festival
  • David has advised the Scottish Government’s Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee on film policy for Scotland. He has also advised a range of other institutions including the Imperial War Museum
  • External Examiner for 6 PhDs (Edge Hill, Edinburgh, UWS, Complutense, Madrid)
  • 2018 – present External Examiner: BA in Media and Communications, (Coventry University) delivered at PSB Academy, Singapore
  • 2017 – present External Examiner: BA in Media and Communications, Coventry University
  • 2014 - 2016 External Examiner: BA in Broadcast Journalism, UWL
  • External Consultant on PGT programmes at Edge Hill University and undergraduate provision at Queen Margaret University

 


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