Professor Sarah Neely

  • Professor (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

Biography

Sarah Neely is a writer and lecturer whose work currently focuses on the areas of film history and memory, and artists' moving image. She is co-investigator for the AHRC-funded project, Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive (with Richard Rushton, Lancaster University, and Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary) and, in 2018-19, led on a year-long project celebrating the centenary of the filmmaker and poet, Margaret Tait (margarettait100.com).  Book publications include Between Categories: The Films of Margaret Tait - Portraits, Poetry, Sound and Place (Peter Lang, 2016), Margaret Tait: Personae (as editor) (LUX, 2020), Margaret Tait: Poems, Stories and Writings (as editor) (Carcanet, 2012), and Reel to Rattling Reel: Stories and Poems About Memories of Cinema-Going (edited with Nalini Paul) (Cranachan, 2018). She is currently working on a book-length study exploring the relationship between memory, archives and creativity.

Sarah has given talks and curated film programmes at a number of festivals and venues, such as Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Punto de Vista International Documentary Festival, Orkney Book Festival, Glasgow International, Small Islands Film Festival/Urras Film nan Eileanan Beaga, Istanbul Silent Film Festival, Scottish National Galleries, Stills Gallery, Scottish Poetry Library, Mills College Art Museum (Oakland, California), The Poetic Research Bureau (Los Angeles) and Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art.

Outside of the University, Sarah has served as a member of the advisory boards for LUX Scotland and Creative Stirling and has also served on judging panels for a variety of prizes and awards including the BAFTA new talent awards and the Margaret Tait Award for artists working within film and moving image. In 2017, Sarah was awarded a residency at the Ingmar Bergman Estate on Fårö island in Sweden.

For further information see www.sarahneely.org.

Research interests

Artists' moving image; Scottish film history; cinema memory; archives

 

Publications

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2024

Neely, S. (2024) Bogancloch. [Film]

2023

Özyılmaz, Ö. and Neely, S. (2023) The story of Tell England (1931) in Turkey: transcultural remakes and the early sound era. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 43(3), pp. 668-684. (doi: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2173381)

Neely, S. (2023) Me and my mom's camera: family archives and collaborative memory work. In: Ingham, M. B. N., Milic, N., Kantas, V., Andersdotter, S. and Lowe, P. (eds.) Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography. IGI Global: Hershey, PA, pp. 417-435. ISBN 9781668453377 (doi: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch019)

Neely, S. and Sorrell Charlesworth, N. (Eds.) (2023) Dreamfactory. Lune. 6 [Edited Journal]

Neely, S. and Fowler, L. (2023) Being in a Place - A Portrait of Margaret Tait. [Film]

2020

Neely, S. (Ed.) (2020) Margaret Tait: Personae. LUX: London. ISBN 9780992884079

Goode, I. , Neely, S. , Brown, C. and Munro, E. (2020) The media of modernity: film and new media in the Highlands & Islands 1946-1971: introduction. Northern Scotland, 11(1), pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.3366/nor.2020.0201)

Neely, S. (2020) The story of the reel that went for a swim’: cinema memory and the history of the Highlands and Islands Film Guild as narrated through oral history interviews and its surrounding metadata. Northern Scotland, 11(1), pp. 42-59. (doi: 10.3366/nor.2020.0204)

Neely, S. (2020) “The skailing of the picters”: The coming of the talkies in small rural townships in Scotland. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 17(2), pp. 254-272. (doi: 10.3366/jbctv.2020.0522)

2019

Neely, S. and Smith, S. (2019) The art of maximal ventriloquy: femininity as labour in the films of Rachel MacLean. In: Reynolds, L. (ed.) Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image. Bloomsbury: London and New York, pp. 165-178. ISBN 9781784537005 (doi: 10.5040/9781350124295.ch-009)

Neely, S. (2019) 'Reel to Rattling Reel': telling stories about rural cinema-going in Scotland. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 16(1), pp. 778-795.

Neely, S. (2019) Persistence of vision: 'Blue Black Permanent' and the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait's life and work. Bottle Imp(25),

Neely, S. and Velez-Serna, M. (2019) Introduction: from silent to sound: cinema in Scotland in the 1930s. Visual Culture in Britain, 20(3), pp. 195-201. (doi: 10.1080/14714787.2019.1687330)

2018

Neely, S. (2018) Tantalising fragments: Scotland’s voice in the early talkies in Britain and Jenny Gilbertson’s The Rugged Island: A Shetland Lyric (1934). Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 12(2), pp. 171-195. (doi: 10.3828/msmi.2018.10)

Neely, S. and Paul, N. (Eds.) (2018) Reel to Rattling Reel: Stories and Poems About Memories of Cinema-Going. Cranachan: Stornoway. ISBN 9781911279389

2017

Neely, S. (2017) Discoveries in the biscuit tin: the role of archives and collections in the history of artists’ moving image in Scotland. Moving Image Review and Art Journal, 6(1-2), pp. 132-147. (doi: 10.1386/miraj.6.1-2.132_1)

Neely, S. (2017) Between Categories: the Films of Margaret Tait: Portraits, Poetry, Sound and Place. Series: Studies in the history and culture of Scotland, 7. Peter Lang: Oxford. ISBN 9783034318549 (doi: 10.3726/978-3-0353-0724-5)

2015

Neely, S. (2015) ‘My Heart Beat for the Wilderness’: Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Jenny Gilbertson, Margaret Tait and other twentieth-century Scottish women filmmakers. In: MacKenzie, S. and Stenport, A. W. (eds.) Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 299-309. ISBN 9780748694174 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0024)

2014

Neely, S. (2014) Sisters of documentary: the influence of Ruby Grierson and Marion Grierson on documentary in the 1930s. Media Education Journal(55), pp. 28-31.

2012

Neely, S. (Ed.) (2012) Margaret Tait: Poetry, Stories and Writings. Carcanet Press Limited: Manchester. ISBN 9781847771599

Neely, S. (2012) Making bodies visible: post-feminism and the pornographication of online identities. In: Gournelos, T. and Gunkel, D. J. (eds.) Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 101-117. ISBN 9781441168337 (doi: 10.5040/9781628928457.ch-006)

2010

Neely, S. (2010) Virtually commercial sex. In: Boyle, K. (ed.) Everyday Pornography. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 90-102. ISBN 9780415543781

2009

Neely, S. (2009) ”Ploughing a lonely furrow”: Margaret Tait and ‘professional’ filmmaking practices in 1950s Scotland. In: Craven, I. (ed.) Movies on Home Ground: Explorations in Amateur Cinema. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 301-326. ISBN 9781443813440

Neely, S. and Riach, A. (2009) Demons in the machine: experimental film, poetry and modernism in twentieth-century Scotland. In: Murray, J., Farley, F. and Stoneman, R. (eds.) Scottish Cinema Now. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9781443803311

Neely, S. and Sillars, J. (2009) New media/ new media studies. Media Education Journal,

2008

Neely, S. (2008) Stalking the image: Margaret Tait and intimate filmmaking practices. Screen, 49(2), pp. 216-221. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjn029)

Neely, S. (2008) Contemporary Scottish cinema. In: Blain, N. and Hutchison, D. (eds.) The Media in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 151-165. ISBN 9780748627998

Neely, S. (2008) ”People, not issues”: Adapting Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal. In: Allen, R. C. and Regan, S. (eds.) Irelands of the Mind : Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 129-141. ISBN 9781847184221

2007

Gibson, G. and Neely, S. (2007) Scottish television drama and parochial representation. In: Schoene, B. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 106-113. ISBN 9780748623952

2005

Neely, S. (2005) Scotland, heritage and devolving British cinema. Screen, 46(2), pp. 241-246. (doi: 10.1093/screen/46.2.241)

Neely, S. (2005) The conquering heritage of British cinema studies and the "Celtic fringe". In: Rockett, K. and Hill, J. (eds.) National Cinema and Beyond. Series: Studies in Irish film series (2). Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 47-56. ISBN 1851829245

2004

Maley, W. and Neely, S. (2004) "Almost afraid to know itself": Macbeth and cinematic Scotland. In: Bell, E. and Miller, G. (eds.) Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture & Literature. Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature (1). Rodopi: Amsterdam, pp. 97-106. ISBN 9789042010284

Neely, S. (2004) Cultural ventriloquism: the voice-over in adaptations of contemporary Irish and Scottish literature. In: Rockett, K. and Hill, J. (eds.) National Cinema and Beyond. Series: Studies in Irish film series (1). Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 125-134. ISBN 1851828737

2001

Neely, S. (2001) Cool intentions: the literary classic, the teenpic and the 'chick flick'. In: Cartmell, D., Hunter, I.Q. and Whelehan, I. (eds.) Retrovisions: Reinventing the Past in Film and Fiction. Series: Film/fiction (6). Pluto Press: London ; Sterling, Virginia, pp. 74-86. ISBN 9780745315836

This list was generated on Mon Nov 11 10:23:55 2024 GMT.
Number of items: 34.

Articles

Özyılmaz, Ö. and Neely, S. (2023) The story of Tell England (1931) in Turkey: transcultural remakes and the early sound era. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 43(3), pp. 668-684. (doi: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2173381)

Goode, I. , Neely, S. , Brown, C. and Munro, E. (2020) The media of modernity: film and new media in the Highlands & Islands 1946-1971: introduction. Northern Scotland, 11(1), pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.3366/nor.2020.0201)

Neely, S. (2020) The story of the reel that went for a swim’: cinema memory and the history of the Highlands and Islands Film Guild as narrated through oral history interviews and its surrounding metadata. Northern Scotland, 11(1), pp. 42-59. (doi: 10.3366/nor.2020.0204)

Neely, S. (2020) “The skailing of the picters”: The coming of the talkies in small rural townships in Scotland. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 17(2), pp. 254-272. (doi: 10.3366/jbctv.2020.0522)

Neely, S. (2019) 'Reel to Rattling Reel': telling stories about rural cinema-going in Scotland. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 16(1), pp. 778-795.

Neely, S. (2019) Persistence of vision: 'Blue Black Permanent' and the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait's life and work. Bottle Imp(25),

Neely, S. and Velez-Serna, M. (2019) Introduction: from silent to sound: cinema in Scotland in the 1930s. Visual Culture in Britain, 20(3), pp. 195-201. (doi: 10.1080/14714787.2019.1687330)

Neely, S. (2018) Tantalising fragments: Scotland’s voice in the early talkies in Britain and Jenny Gilbertson’s The Rugged Island: A Shetland Lyric (1934). Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 12(2), pp. 171-195. (doi: 10.3828/msmi.2018.10)

Neely, S. (2017) Discoveries in the biscuit tin: the role of archives and collections in the history of artists’ moving image in Scotland. Moving Image Review and Art Journal, 6(1-2), pp. 132-147. (doi: 10.1386/miraj.6.1-2.132_1)

Neely, S. (2014) Sisters of documentary: the influence of Ruby Grierson and Marion Grierson on documentary in the 1930s. Media Education Journal(55), pp. 28-31.

Neely, S. and Sillars, J. (2009) New media/ new media studies. Media Education Journal,

Neely, S. (2008) Stalking the image: Margaret Tait and intimate filmmaking practices. Screen, 49(2), pp. 216-221. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjn029)

Neely, S. (2005) Scotland, heritage and devolving British cinema. Screen, 46(2), pp. 241-246. (doi: 10.1093/screen/46.2.241)

Books

Neely, S. (2017) Between Categories: the Films of Margaret Tait: Portraits, Poetry, Sound and Place. Series: Studies in the history and culture of Scotland, 7. Peter Lang: Oxford. ISBN 9783034318549 (doi: 10.3726/978-3-0353-0724-5)

Book Sections

Neely, S. (2023) Me and my mom's camera: family archives and collaborative memory work. In: Ingham, M. B. N., Milic, N., Kantas, V., Andersdotter, S. and Lowe, P. (eds.) Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography. IGI Global: Hershey, PA, pp. 417-435. ISBN 9781668453377 (doi: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch019)

Neely, S. and Smith, S. (2019) The art of maximal ventriloquy: femininity as labour in the films of Rachel MacLean. In: Reynolds, L. (ed.) Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image. Bloomsbury: London and New York, pp. 165-178. ISBN 9781784537005 (doi: 10.5040/9781350124295.ch-009)

Neely, S. (2015) ‘My Heart Beat for the Wilderness’: Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Jenny Gilbertson, Margaret Tait and other twentieth-century Scottish women filmmakers. In: MacKenzie, S. and Stenport, A. W. (eds.) Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 299-309. ISBN 9780748694174 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0024)

Neely, S. (2012) Making bodies visible: post-feminism and the pornographication of online identities. In: Gournelos, T. and Gunkel, D. J. (eds.) Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 101-117. ISBN 9781441168337 (doi: 10.5040/9781628928457.ch-006)

Neely, S. (2010) Virtually commercial sex. In: Boyle, K. (ed.) Everyday Pornography. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 90-102. ISBN 9780415543781

Neely, S. (2009) ”Ploughing a lonely furrow”: Margaret Tait and ‘professional’ filmmaking practices in 1950s Scotland. In: Craven, I. (ed.) Movies on Home Ground: Explorations in Amateur Cinema. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 301-326. ISBN 9781443813440

Neely, S. and Riach, A. (2009) Demons in the machine: experimental film, poetry and modernism in twentieth-century Scotland. In: Murray, J., Farley, F. and Stoneman, R. (eds.) Scottish Cinema Now. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9781443803311

Neely, S. (2008) Contemporary Scottish cinema. In: Blain, N. and Hutchison, D. (eds.) The Media in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 151-165. ISBN 9780748627998

Neely, S. (2008) ”People, not issues”: Adapting Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal. In: Allen, R. C. and Regan, S. (eds.) Irelands of the Mind : Memory and Identity in Modern Irish Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 129-141. ISBN 9781847184221

Gibson, G. and Neely, S. (2007) Scottish television drama and parochial representation. In: Schoene, B. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 106-113. ISBN 9780748623952

Neely, S. (2005) The conquering heritage of British cinema studies and the "Celtic fringe". In: Rockett, K. and Hill, J. (eds.) National Cinema and Beyond. Series: Studies in Irish film series (2). Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 47-56. ISBN 1851829245

Maley, W. and Neely, S. (2004) "Almost afraid to know itself": Macbeth and cinematic Scotland. In: Bell, E. and Miller, G. (eds.) Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture & Literature. Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature (1). Rodopi: Amsterdam, pp. 97-106. ISBN 9789042010284

Neely, S. (2004) Cultural ventriloquism: the voice-over in adaptations of contemporary Irish and Scottish literature. In: Rockett, K. and Hill, J. (eds.) National Cinema and Beyond. Series: Studies in Irish film series (1). Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 125-134. ISBN 1851828737

Neely, S. (2001) Cool intentions: the literary classic, the teenpic and the 'chick flick'. In: Cartmell, D., Hunter, I.Q. and Whelehan, I. (eds.) Retrovisions: Reinventing the Past in Film and Fiction. Series: Film/fiction (6). Pluto Press: London ; Sterling, Virginia, pp. 74-86. ISBN 9780745315836

Edited Books

Neely, S. (Ed.) (2020) Margaret Tait: Personae. LUX: London. ISBN 9780992884079

Neely, S. and Paul, N. (Eds.) (2018) Reel to Rattling Reel: Stories and Poems About Memories of Cinema-Going. Cranachan: Stornoway. ISBN 9781911279389

Neely, S. (Ed.) (2012) Margaret Tait: Poetry, Stories and Writings. Carcanet Press Limited: Manchester. ISBN 9781847771599

Edited Journals

Neely, S. and Sorrell Charlesworth, N. (Eds.) (2023) Dreamfactory. Lune. 6 [Edited Journal]

Film

Neely, S. (2024) Bogancloch. [Film]

Neely, S. and Fowler, L. (2023) Being in a Place - A Portrait of Margaret Tait. [Film]

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Grants

  • 2019    AHRC Standard Grant,Cinema Memory and the Digital Archives, CI (with Richard Rushton, University of Lancaster and Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary) (AHRC contribution £613,000)

  • 2018    Creative Scotland, Margaret Tait 100 project, year-long programme of events celebrating Tait’s centenary (£63k)

  • 2017    British Academy Newton Mobility Grant (co-applicant with Dr Ozge Ozyilmaz) for project looking at Silent Cinema and the Transition to Sound in Turkey. (£9995)

  • 2016-9  AHRC Standard Grant, The Major Minor Cinema: the Highlands and Islands Film Guild (1946-71), CI (with Ian Goode, University of Glasgow as PI) (AHRC contribution £450, 076)

  • 2014-7  AHRC Standard Grant, British Silent Cinema and the Transition to Sound, CI (with Laraine Porter, De Montfort as PI) (AHRC contribution £462,630)

  • 2010     AHRC Early Career Fellowship for research on Margaret Tait, For the creation of a book-length study of the filmmaker and an edited collection of Tait’s poetry and writings.  The project also involves the preservation of additional papers and ephemera relating to Tait’s life and work (£50,187)

  • 2009    Carnegie Small Research Grant  for research on Margaret Tait (£2000)

  • 2006    Carnegie Small Research Grantfor research on Margaret Tait (£2000)

 

Supervision

Sarah supervises PhDs in the areas of Scottish cinema and artists' moving image (history and practice). She currently supervises the following PhD students: 

Olivia Booker (secondary supervisor, with Philippa Lovatt, St Andrews), practice-based, ecocinema and Scotland’s coastal environments

Gabriel Bailey (secondary supervisor, with Dominic Hinde and Ian Garwood), practice-based. Title: Environmental Consciousness in Film - Magic as Epistemology in Pre-World War

Juan Marra (primary supervisor, with David Martin Jones), practice-based. Title: Variations of Montevideo: constructing and expanded city symphony for the gallery

Former Research Students

Linda Hutcheson (primary supervisor, with Neil Blain), Title: Beyond the Frame: A Critical Production Case Study of the Advance Party Initiative 

Nadin Mai (primary supervisor, with Philippa Lovatt), Title: The Aesthetics of Absence and Duration in the Post-Trauma Cinema of Lav Diaz 

John Ritchie (primary supervisor, with John Izod) – AHRC project PhD, Title: How UK and USA Films Represented and Performed Scottishness from 1895 to 1935: With Particular Attention to the Transition to Sound (1927–1933) 

Roseanne Watt (second supervisor, with Kathleen Jamie) – SGSAH AHRC DTP funded, film and poetry, creative writing and filmmaking project. Title: Aa My Mindin: Moving through loss in the poetic literary tradition of Shetland

Susannah Ramsay (primary supervisor, with Ross Birrell, GSA) – SGSAH AHRC DTP funded, film-poetry, practice-based.  Title: Experiencing the Film-Poem. Touching the Landscape, Tasting the Film.A Phenomenological Analysis of the Film-Poem through Practice and Exhibition

Shona Main (primary superivsor, with Ross Birrell, GSA) – SGSAH AHRC DTP funded, practice-based, exploring the practice of Scottish documentary pioneer, Jenny Gilbertson.

Sarah Forrest (secondary supervisor, with Susannah Thompson, GSA and Torsten Lauschmann, ECA) – SGSAH AHRC DTP funded. Title: What is Seen, What is Said to be Seen: Exploring doubt as a critical tool within artists' moving-image practice.

River Seager (secondary supervisor, with Brian Hoyle and Keith Williams, Dundee) – SGSAH AHRC DTP Funded. Title: To 'Live Through the Lens': The novels and screenplays of Alan Sharp as transmedial texts.

Marcus Jack (secondary supervisor, with Sarah Smith), Glasgow School of Art) – SGSAH AHRC DTP Funded.  Title: Curating a History of Artists’ Moving Image in Scotland.

Danilo Barauna (secondary supervisor, with Sarah Smith and Frances McKee, GSA) –  Title: Moving Image Art Projection in the Digital Age.

Teaching

Key Moments in the Development of Cinema and Television, Level One

Experimental Cinema

Film Archives

PGR Convener