Dr Jonathan Rayner
Room 1.23, Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
Internal extension: 28457
Phone number: +44 (0)114-222-8457
Fax: +44 (0)114-222-8481
email : j.r.rayner@sheffield.ac.uk
I began part-time teaching before and during the completion of my PhD. I taught accredited evening classes in Film Studies at the Division of Adult Continuing Education (now the Institute of Life Long Learning) at the University of Sheffield. My first full-time post was teaching Film History within the Cultural Studies degree at the University of Portsmouth. Subsequently, I taught at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI), an Associate College of the University of Wales, where I was subject leader for Media Studies and delivered modules in English, Media Studies and Film Studies. For three years I worked at Sheffield Hallam University, teaching Film History, Theory and Criticism at undergraduate level and acting as course leader for the MA in Film Studies. I joined the School of English as a member of staff in 2001.
Teaching
Areas of interest: Australian Cinema; New Zealand Cinema; Genre studies;auteur criticism; Japanese Cinema. My core literature teaching commitments are to the Renaissance and Shakespeare modules, and I have also contributed to the MA Research Track. The majority of my teaching time is devoted to Film Studies at levels 2 and 3. I convene the Introduction to Cinema module (Lit 181), and I also convene and teach on the MA in International Cinema. Currently I supervise five film studies PhD students, with interests in British, American and Japanese cinema.
My publications include:
- The Films of Peter Weir (Cassell/Continuum, 1998, 2nd Edition 2003).
- Contemporary Australian Cinema (MUP, 2000).
- The New Zealand and American Films of Geoff Murphy (Kakapo, 1999).
- The Naval War Film: Genre, History and National Cinema (MUP, 2007).
- ‘Loop the Loop and Crash Head-On: Australian Road Movies’, in Lost Highways: An Illustrated History of Road Movies, ed. by Jack Sargent and Stephanie Watson (Creation Books, 2000)
- ‘The Cult Film, Roger Corman and The Cars That Ate Paris’, in Unruly Pleasures: The Cult Film and Its Critics, ed. by Graeme Harper and Xavier Mendik (FAB Press, 2000)
- ‘Paradise Transplanted: The Spiritual Landscapes of Vincent Ward’, in New Zealand: A Pastoral Paradise?, ed. by Ian Conrich (Kakapo
Books, 2000) - ‘Masculinity, Morality and Action: Michael Mann and the Heist Movie’, in Criminal Visions: Media Representations of Crime and Justice ed. by Paul Mason (Willan Publishing, 2003)
- ‘Terror Australis: Areas of Horror in the Australian Cinema’, in Horror: International ed. by Steven Schneider and Tony Williams (Wayne State University Press, 2005)
- ‘Stardom, Reception and the ABBA Musical’, in Film’s Musical Moments, ed. by Ian Conrich and Estella Tincknell (Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
- ‘Western Australia – Australian Western: Moral Landscapes in Australian Film’, in Australian Studies vol.15 n.1 January 2000
- ‘New Gothic and New Australians: Multiculturalism and Rehabilitation in John Ruane’s Death Diptych’, Australian Studies vol.18 n.2, Winter 2003
- ‘Conflict and Conspiracy: Public and Personal Memory in Australian Film,’ Post Script (Australia/New Zealand Issue) vol.24 nos.2-3 Winter/Spring and Summer 2005
- ‘1805 and All That: Defining the Naval War Film’, Diegesis:Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions n.9 (Spring 2006)
- Entry on Geoff Murphy, in The Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors, ed. by Yoram Allon, Del Cullen and Hannah Patterson (Wallflower Press, 2002)
I have contributed to books on New Zealand cinema, musicals, horror Films, cinema and landscape, crime/caper films, cult and road Movies. I have published articles on Australian cinema in Postscript, Australian Studies, and Studies in Australasian Cinema. I also act as a referee for Australian Studies, and serve on the committee of the British Australian Studies Association. I am a member of the editorial board for Studies in European Cinema, which publishes papers from the European Cinema Research Forum. My current research centres on the representation of navies, naval combat and naval history on film. In 2005, I was awarded a six-month Caird Senior Research Fellowship at The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, during which this research was extended to include the Museum's archive of documentary and actuality films on naval matters. During 2007-08 I am also co-editing, with Prof. Graeme Harper of University of Wales, Bangor, a collection of essays on the presence and significance of landscapes in national cinemas worldwide.
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