Staff Profile:Doug Pye

Responsibilities:

I retired from my post as Senior Lecturer in Film in 2005. I remain closely involved with the Department, and am interested in supervising postgraduate research on topics related to my research interests.

Areas of Interest:

My main research interests are in the textual analysis of narrative cinema, particularly Hollywood, and include questions of narration and point of view, authorship and popular genres. My recent work includes essays on the concept of tone in film, on Otto Preminger (co-authored with John Gibbs), on Vincente Minnelli and Max Ophuls.

Postgraduate Supervision:

I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students on topics such as textual analysis of narrative film, including issues of film style and interpretation; narration and point of view; film authorship and popular Hollywood genres. I am currently supervising research on Hollywood performance, and past supervision topics include the German films of Fritz Lang, Hollywood romantic comedy, mise en scene in British post-war film criticism, and the films of Terrence Malick.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Books

• Pye, D. Movies and Tone. In: Gibbs, J. and Pye, D. (Eds) Close-Up 02, London: Wallflower Press, 2007, 1-80.
• Gibbs, J. and Pye, D. (Eds) Style and Meaning: studies in the detailed analysis of film, Manchester: MUP, 2005.
• Cameron, I. and Pye, D. (Eds.) The Movie Book of the Western, London: Studio Vista, 1996.

Book chapters and journal articles

• Pye, D. Being a Clown: Curious Coupling in The Pirate. CineAction, 63, 2004, 4-13.
• Pye, D. In and Around The Paradine Case: Control, Confession and the Claims of Marriage. Rouge, 4, 2004, http://www.rouge.com.au/4/paradine.html.
• Pye, D. Falling Women and Fallible narrators. CineAction, 59, 2002, 20-29.
• Pye, D. Des fémmes qui tombent, des narrateurs qui defailent. 1895, Revue de l'association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma, 34/35, 2001, 99-120.
• Pye, D. Movies and Point of View. Movie, 36, 2000, 2-34.
• Pye, D. Film Noir and Suppressive Narrative. In: Cameron, I. (Ed.) The Movie Book of Film Noir, London: Studio Vista, 1992, 98-110.

See a full list of recent publications.

Teaching:

• US cinema 1
• Popular film genres

Affiliations:

• Series Editor (with John Gibbs) of Close-Up, Wallflower Press.