Dr Patrick Crogan

Senior Lecturer:Film and Media and Cultural Studies
Research: Film Studies Research Group, Digital Cultures Research Centre, Play Research Group

PhD supervision interests include: Film and philosophy, digital cinema, animation, videogames, critical theories of technology, Bernard Stiegler, Japanese cinema and anime

Patrick has disciplinary expertise across the fields of film and digital media, informed by a strong engagement in critical theories of technology and media. He is represented in journals such as Angelaki, Film and Philosophy and Games and Culture, and is on the editorial board of the latter as well as Convergence and Scan.

He currently teaches Digital Cinema and Topics in Film History.

Patrick has presented his work at conferences in Australia, the UK and the US, and has been invited to speak at the Paris Program in Critical Theory (Northwestern University), The Japan Academy of Moving Images (Kawasaki, Japan), as well as at the National Media Museum (Bradford), and Copenhagen University. He is on the executive board of the Digital Games Research Association, and has been on the editorial board of the Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment. He co-curated the Australia-Japan Student Film Festival for several years before leaving Australia for Bristol.

He has supervised two successful Ph D. completions, and has extensive undergraduate and post-graduate supervisory experience in theoretical and practical programs.

Publications

Books

  • Gameplay Mode (under contract with University of Minnesota Press, expected publication date 2010)

Journal special issues

Patrick has published articles and essays on a wide range of subjects, including videogames, digital visual effects, animation, simulation, narrative and interactivity, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Blade Runner (film and game), The Thing (film and game), Bernard Stiegler, Gilles Deleuze, Paul Virilio and Martin Heidegger. He has published interviews with Espen Aarseth, Samuel Weber and Bernard Stiegler, and translated work by the latter from the French. For more details of his publications.

PhD supervisions
Katherine Greenwood, Confronting the Limits: Renditions of the Real in the Edge of the Construct Film Cycle (Adelaide University 2006)
Jane Mills, Hollywood and its Others: Porous Borders and Creative Tensions in the Transnational Landscape (University of Western Sydney 2006)

Patrick.Crogan@uwe.ac.uk

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Recent and Past Projects :

Patrick is co-curating a retrospective festival and symposium in October 2009 of the work of Japanese New Wave director, Shohei Imamura, for the Arnolfini museum in Bristol, supported by the Japan Foundation and the Daiwa Foundation.

Patrick is editing a special issue of Cultural Politics on the work of French philosopher of technology and media, Bernard Stiegler.

He will be co-convening a conference with Professor Jonathan Dovey of UWE’s Digital Cultures Research Centre for the European Science Foundation in 2010 on “Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility.”

Patrick recently co-edited (with Helen Kennedy) a special section of Games and Culture (4:2, April 2009) on the theme of games and technology.

He recently collaborated with Theodor Wyeld (Flinders University, Adelaide) and Brett Leavy (Cyberdreaming Australia) on research into the use of 3D Gaming engines in indigenous storytelling and digital archiving (see selected publications for details).

Patrick has an ongoing relationship with Northwestern University’s Paris Program in Critical Theory, having been a student in its inaugural year (1990-91). He gives guest seminars to the Program from time to time.