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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).

Truffaut on Cinema coverFox book titled speaking pictures

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

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