MA (Cant) PhD (W Ont)
Emailalistair.fox@otago.ac.nz
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Expertise
Early Modern English literature, Renaissance humanism, literature and politics in the Reformation period, contemporary New Zealand literature and culture (including film), postcolonial literature, theory of literary and cinematic representation.
Current Research
Recent research has focused on the theory of fictive representation in film and literature, authorship and the creative process, issues of gender and genre, adaptation, and national identities. Books forthcoming in 2017 include Coming of Age in New Zealand: Genre, Gender, and Adaptation in a National Cinema, and Truffaut on Cinema (a compilation of extracts from 300 interviews given by the famous filmmaker translated from the French).
Publications
Fox, A. (2025). Negative emotions in the light of neuropsychoanalysis: The generative matrix of Witi Ihimaera's multigenerational saga. In J.-F. Vernay, D. R. Wehrs & I. Wentworth (Eds.), The productivity of negative emotions in postcolonial literature. (pp. 58-73). New York, NY: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781032649320-5 Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2022). Melodrama, masculinity and international art cinema. London, UK: Anthem Preess, 236p. Authored Book - Research
Gillain, A., & Fox, A. (translator) (2021). Totally Truffaut: 23 films for understanding the man and the filmmaker. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 336p. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197536308.001.0001 Authored Book - Other
Fox, A. (2020, February 18). Une approche génético-biographique: L'œuvre Pier Paolo Pasolini. Chaire Roger Odin Seminar Series, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. [Invited Presentation]. Other Research Output
Fox, A. (2020, February 11). Définir une fantasmatique d'auteur: Trois films de Jacques Demy. Chaire Roger Odin Seminar Series, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. [Invited Presentation]. Other Research Output
2025
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2025). Negative emotions in the light of neuropsychoanalysis: The generative matrix of Witi Ihimaera's multigenerational saga. In J.-F. Vernay, D. R. Wehrs & I. Wentworth (Eds.), The productivity of negative emotions in postcolonial literature. (pp. 58-73). New York, NY: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781032649320-5
2022
Authored Book - Research
Fox, A. (2022). Melodrama, masculinity and international art cinema. London, UK: Anthem Preess, 236p.
2021
Authored Book - Other
Gillain, A., & Fox, A. (translator) (2021). Totally Truffaut: 23 films for understanding the man and the filmmaker. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 336p. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197536308.001.0001
2020
Other Research Output
Fox, A. (2020, February 18). Une approche génético-biographique: L'œuvre Pier Paolo Pasolini. Chaire Roger Odin Seminar Series, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. [Invited Presentation].
Fox, A. (2020, February 11). Définir une fantasmatique d'auteur: Trois films de Jacques Demy. Chaire Roger Odin Seminar Series, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. [Invited Presentation].
Fox, A. (2020, February 4). Auteur et créativité: Nouvelles données de la «neuropsychanalyse». Chaire Roger Odin Seminar Series, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. [Invited Presentation].
2018
Authored Book - Research
Radner, H., & Fox, A. (2018). Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the moving image. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 232p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H., & Fox, A. (2018). Truffaut's apartments. In A. Phillips & G. Vincendeau (Eds.), Paris in the cinema: Beyond the Flâneur. (pp. 55-65). London, UK: Palgrave.
2017
Authored Book - Research
Fox, A. (2017). Coming-of-age cinema in New Zealand: Genre, gender, and adaptation. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 247p.
Edited Book - Research
Fox, A. (Ed.). (2017). Truffaut on cinema compiled by Anne Gillain [Translated by Alistair Fox]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 404p.
2016
Authored Book - Research
Fox, A. (2016). Speaking pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and authorship in film and literature. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 310p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2016). The new Anglo-American cinema of sexual addiction. In J. Gwynne (Ed.), Transgression in Anglo-American cinema: Gender, sex and the deviant body. London, UK: Wallflower Press.
Fox, A. (2016). Le rôle du cinéma aux confins de l'Empire britannique: Étude de cas de la ville de Dunedin au temps de la Nouvelle-Zélande coloniale (1896-1929). In I. Bessière, L. Creton, K. Kitsopanidou & R. Odin (Eds.), Ville et cinéma: Espaces de projection, espaces urbains. (pp. 67-83). Paris, France: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Fox, A. (2016). François Truffaut. In K. Gabbard (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies: Cinema and media studies. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199791286-0198
2015
Edited Book - Research
Fox, A., Marie, M., Moine, R., & Radner, H. (Eds.). (2015). A companion to contemporary French cinema [Translations by Alistair Fox]. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 691p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2015). Jane Campion. In K. Gabbard (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies: Cinema and media studies. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791286-0039
Fox, A. (2015). New Zealand cinema. In K. Gabbard (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies: Cinema and media studies. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791286-0227
Fox, A. (2015). Auteurism, personal cinema, and the fémis generation: The case of François Ozon. In A. Fox, M. Marie, R. Moine & H. Radner (Eds.), A companion to contemporary French cinema [Translations by Alistair Fox]. (pp. 205-230). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Fox, A., Marie, M., Moine, R., & Radner, H. (2015). Introduction: Contemporary French cinema: Continuity and change in a global context. In A. Fox, M. Marie, R. Moine & H. Radner (Eds.), A companion to contemporary French cinema [Translations by Alistair Fox]. (pp. 1-14). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Fox, A. (2015, June). Neuroscience and the reaction against postmodernist critical theory. Verbal presentation at the What [in the World] Was Postmodernism? SYMPOSIUM, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2014
Journal - Research Article
Fox, A. (2014). From hypnosis to animals by Raymond Bellour [Translated by Alistair Fox]. Cinema Journal, 53(3), 1-25. doi: 10.1353/cj.2014.0030
2013
Edited Book - Research
Fox, A. (Ed.). (2013). François Truffaut: The lost secret by Anne Gillian [Translated by Alistair Fox]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 334p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2013). Exploring the dynamics of epochal change: Shifting identities in the historical novels of Heretaunga Pat Baker:Behind the Tattooed Face, and The Strongest God. In J. Bessière & S. André (Eds.), Littératures du Pacifique insulaire: Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouvelle-Zélande, Océanie, Timor Oriental Approches historiques, culturelles et comparatives [Literatures of the Pacific Islands: New Caledonia, New Zealand, Oceania, East Timor Historical, Cultural and Comparative Perspectives. (pp. 81-93). Paris: Honoré Champion.
Fox, A. (2013). Emotion and the authorial fantasmatic: An introduction to the English edition of Anne Gillian's François Truffaut: the lost secret. In François Truffaut: The lost secret by Anne Gillian [Translated by Alistair Fox]. (pp. xxv-xxxvi). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Journal - Research Other
Fox, A. (2013). In search of genuine equality: The problem with multiculturalism [Review of the book What was multiculturalism? A critical retrospective]. Diaspora [2007], 16(3), 423-430. [Book Review].
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Fox, A. (2013). Genre and gender in Mike Wallis's Good for Nothing (2011): Contemporary New Zealand cinema and "the demise of the guys". In E. C. M. Grant, A. Alfaro & H. Radner (Eds.), At a Crossroads: Reconsidering Gender and Identity Research Colloquium: Refereed Abstracts. (pp. 7-8). Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of History and Art History, University of Otago. [Abstract]
2012
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2012). Psychological trauma: Representations of gay male sexuality in Māori and Pākehā New Zealand literature. In J. Gywnne & A. Poon (Eds.), Sexuality and contemporary literature. (pp. 147-165). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.
Journal - Research Article
Fox, A. (2012). Hybridity and the symbolization of postcolonial identity in New Zealand Māori literature. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 39(2), 152-169.
2011
Authored Book - Research
Fox, A. (2011). Jane Campion: Authorship and personal cinema. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 288p.
Edited Book - Research
Fox, A., & Hine, G. (Eds.). (2011). Cinematic adaptation and the articulation of New Zealand identity. Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago, 88p.
Fox, A., Grant, B. K., & Radner, H. (Eds.). (2011). New Zealand cinema: Interpreting the past. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 350p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2011). Jane Campion. In Oxford bibliographies online. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791286-0039
Fox, A. (2011). Hybridity and indigeneity in contemporary Maori literature of Aotearoa/New Zealand: Witi Ihimaera. In J. Bessière (Ed.), Littératures d'aujourd'hui: Contemporain, innovation, partages culturels, politique, théorie littéraire: Domaines européan, latino-américain, francophone et anglophone. (pp. 91-101). Paris: Honoré Champion.
Fox, A. (2011). Cinematic adaptation, personal cinema, and inter-generational change: The case of Roger Donaldson's Sleeping Dogs (1977). In A. Fox & G. Hine (Eds.), Cinematic adaptation and the articulation of New Zealand identity. (pp. 15-29). Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago.
Fox, A. (2011). Introduction: The function and purposes of adaptation in the articulation of identity. In A. Fox & G. Hine (Eds.), Cinematic adaptation and the articulation of New Zealand identity. (pp. 7-14). Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago.
Fox, A., Grant, B. K., & Radner, H. (2011). Introduction: The historical film in New Zealand cinema. In A. Fox, B. K. Grant & H. Radner (Eds.), New Zealand cinema: Interpreting the past. (pp. 13-44). Bristol, UK: Intellect.
Fox, A. (2011). Rudall Hayward and the cinema of Maoriland: Genre-mixing counter-discourses in Rewi's Last Stand (1925), The Te Kooti Trail (1927) and Rewi's Last Stand/The Last Stand (1940). In A. Fox, B. K. Grant & H. Radner (Eds.), New Zealand cinema: Interpreting the past. (pp. 45-64). Bristol, UK: Intellect.
Chapter in Book - Other
Fox, A. (2011). An intricate, intimate compromise. In G. M. Logan (Ed.), Utopia: Thomas More: A revised translation, backgrounds and criticism. (3rd ed.) (pp. 228-240). New York: W. W. Norton.
Journal - Research Other
Fox, A. (2011). [Review of the book Medieval literature and postcolonial studies]. Commonwealth Essays & Studies, 34(1), 103-104.
Fox, A. (2011). [Review of the book The snake-haired muse: James K. Baxter and classical myth]. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 10, 190-192.
Fox, A. (2011). Cinema of unease [Review of the book New Zealand film: An illustrated history]. Landfall, 222, 188-192.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Fox, A. (2011). The current state and future directions of adaptation theory. In E. Todd, C. Da Gama, E. Pullar & H. Radner (Eds.), Creative Imitations and Appropriations: From Cinematic Adaptations to Re-makes Research Colloquium: Selected Refereed Papers. (pp. 3-9). Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity. [Full Paper]
Mulholland, M., Fox, A., Gillett, G., Ruru, J., Ballantyne, T., & Rae, M. (2011). Responses to Malcolm Mulholland's "Challenging our symbols of nationhood" [Roundtable discussion]. In A. Fox (Ed.), Symbolising New Zealand: Papers presented at the Centre for Research on National Identity Conference. (pp. 111-123). Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago. [Full Paper]
Fox, A. (2011). Symbolising the shadow-side of New Zealand experience in contemporary literature and film. In A. Fox (Ed.), Symbolising New Zealand: Papers presented at the Centre for Research on National Identity Conference. (pp. 55-68). Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Fox, A. (2011). Cinematic adaptation, auteur cinema and inter-generational change: The case of Roger Donaldson's ″Sleeping Dogs″ (1977). In E. Todd (Ed.), Creative Imitations and Appropriations: From Cinematic Adaptations to Re-makes: Research Colloquium: Programme and Refereed Abstracts. (pp. 6-7). Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago. [Abstract]
Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings
Fox, A. (Ed.). (2011). Symbolising New Zealand: Papers presented at the Centre for Research on National Identity Conference. Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago. 126p.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Fox, A. (2011, February). Cinematic adaptation, auteur cinema, and inter-generational change: The case of Roger Donaldson's ″Sleeping Dogs″ (1977). Verbal presentation at the University of Otago Cultures, Histories and Identities in Film, Media and Literature Research Network Colloquium: Creative Imitations and Appropriations: From Cinematic Adaptations to Re-makes, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Other Research Output
Fox, A. (2011). Introduction. In A. Fox (Ed.), Symbolising New Zealand: Papers presented at the Centre for Research on National Identity Conference, (pp. 7-11). Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago. [Other Research Output].
2010
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2010). Cultural hybridity in contemporary New Zealand fiction: A theoretical intervention. In R. Ramsey (Ed.), Cultural crossings: Negotiating identities in francophone and anglophone Pacific literatures [Á la croisée des cultures: De la négociation des identités dans les littératures francophones et anglophones du Pacifique. (pp. 273-284). Brussels, Belgium: Peter Lang.
Journal - Research Article
Fox, A. (2010). Italy in the Maori imaginary: The novels of Witi Ihimaera and Te Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti / The Maori merchant of Venice. CNZS Bulletin of New Zealand Studies, 2, 1-13.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Fox, A. (2010, November-December). Cinematic adaptation as evidence of inter-generational change: Sleeping dogs (1977). Verbal presentation at the XVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand: Cinema, Modernity and Modernism, Sydney, Australia.
Fox, A. (2010, September). Symbolising the shadow-side of New Zealand experience in contemporary literature and film. Verbal presentation at the Centre for Research on National Identity Conference: Symbolising New Zealand, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2009
Edited Book - Research
Radner, H., Fox, A., & Bessière, I. (Eds.). (2009). Jane Campion: Cinema, nation, identity. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 400p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2009). The reluctant champion: More's Responsio ad Lutherum and Letter to Bugenhagen. In A. D. Cousins & D. Grace (Eds.), A companion to Thomas More. (pp. 208-224). Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Fox, A. (2009). Puritanism and the erotics of transgression: The New Zealand influence in Jane Campion's thematic imaginary. In H. Radner, A. Fox & I. Bessière (Eds.), Jane Campion: Cinema, nation, identity. (pp. 103-122). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
Fox, A., & Radner, H. (2009). Introduction: An antipodean filmmaker in an international context. In H. Radner, A. Fox & I. Bessière (Eds.), Jane Campion: Cinema, nation, identity. (pp. xi-xvi). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
Journal - Research Article
Fox, A. (2009). Inwardness, insularity, and the Man Alone: Postcolonial anxiety in the New Zealand novel. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 45(3), 265-275. doi: 10.1080/17449850903064690
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Fox, A. (2009, June). Hybridity and identity in New Zealand Maori literature: Alan Duff's Dreamboat Dad. Verbal presentation at the Journees d'Etudes: Hybridite Culturelle Reconsiderer la Notion et ses Applications en Critique Litteraire, Paris, France.
Fox, A. (2009, August-September). Cultural hybridity and the construction of Māori identity in the works of contemporary Māori novelists. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand's National Identity Research Colloquium: Fact or Fiction? Dunedin, New Zealand.
Fox, A., Brookes, B., & Downes, G. (2009, August-September). Problems and issues relating to the conceptualisation of national identity. Panel discussion at the New Zealand's National Identity Research Colloquium: Fact or Fiction? Dunedin, New Zealand.
2008
Authored Book - Research
Fox, A. (2008). The ship of dreams: Masculinity in contemporary New Zealand fiction. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 230p.
Edited Book - Research
Fox, A., & Radner, H. (Eds.). (2008). Cinema genre by Raphaëlle Moine [Translated by Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner]. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 248p.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Fox, A. (2008). Italy in the Maori imaginary: The novels of Witi Ihimaera. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Studies Association. (pp. 30). Retrieved from http://www.nzsa.co.uk/conferences.htm
Fox, A. (2008). Counter-discourses, identity, and the interpretation of history in New Zealand cinema. In C. Fowler & R. Simmons (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand (Vol. 1: Refereed Abstracts). (pp. 28-29). Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Film, Media and Communication, University of Otago. [Abstract]
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Fox, A. (2008, November). Cultural hybridity as 'transformational object': A theoretical intervention. Verbal presentation at the Cultural Crossings: Negotiating Identities in Francophone and Anglophone Pacific Literatures Colloquium, Auckland, New Zealand.
2007
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Fox, A. (2007, December). 'Going global': Self-construction, hybridity and the Maori dilemma in Witi Ihimaera's The rope of man. Verbal presentation at the Self-Narratives 'Research Conversation' Day, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2006
Journal - Research Article
Fox, A. (2006). The symbolic function of the operatic allusions in Witi Ihimaera's The Dream Swimmer. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 42(1), 4-17.
Journal - Research Other
Fox, A. (2006). [Review of the book A Thomas More source book]. Catholic Historical Review, 92(2), 279-280.
2005
Chapter in Book - Research
Fox, A. (2005). Feminine ″neoneeds″ and masculine brutality after the sexual revolution: Melissa P's One hundred strokes of the brush before bed. In C. Gibson & L. Marr (Eds.), New windows on a woman's world: Essays for Jocelyn Harris. (pp. 180-193). Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of English, University of Otago.
Journal - Research Other
Fox, A. G. (2005). Introduction: Rethinking utopia in the wake of postmodernism. Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2(2), 1-8. doi: 10.5130/portal.v2i2.98
Fox, A. (2005). In search of the postmodern utopia: Ben Okri's In Arcadia. Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2(2), 1-16. Retrieved from http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal
Other - Edited Journal
Fox, A., Pratt, M., & Radner, H. (Eds.). (2005). Strange Localities: Utopias, Intellectuals and Identities in the 21st Century [Special issue]. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2(2). http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal. [Journal Editors].
2004
Journal - Research Other
Fox, A. (2004). [Review of the book Elizabethan rhetoric: Theory and practice]. American Historical Review, 109(4), 1307.
2003
Journal - Research Other
Fox, A. (2003). [Review of the book English works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester: Sermons and other writings, 1520-1603]. Albion, 35(3), 463.
1999
Journal - Research Other
Fox, A. (1999). [Review of the book Pastoral transformations: Italian tragicomedy and Shakespeare's late plays]. Modern Language Review, 94(2), 495.
1997
Authored Book - Research
Fox, A. (1997). The English Renaissance: Identity and Representation in Elizabethan England. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 240p.