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Biography
I am a Lecturer in Drama and Screen Studies. My interest is in Film History, specialising in British Cinema, Screen Acting and the relationship between Film and the other Arts. I have a particular interest in archives and have used them in my research (eg. Robert Donat archive, Basil Dean archive in JRULM and Jocelyn Herbert archive, Univeresity of the Arts, London). At the moment I am thinking about archive methodologies to research inter-medial performance practices across theatre and film. Prior to becoming a Lecturer in Drama and Screen Studies, I worked as a producer in Drama across radio, television and film. I was also a script reader for BBC Wales and the BBC Radio Drama Department in Manchester and Film Education Manager at FACT in Liverpool. I have a PGCE in Drama and English from the University of Aberystwyth.
Research interests
My research interests include; stage/screen adaptation: theatricality in the cinema; intermediality; screen acting and stardom and the voice in cinema. I welcome any proposals for post-graduate study in these areas.
My thesis examined the relationship between performance and stardom in British Cinema in the 1930s, drawing extensively on the collection of the actor Robert Donat's personal papers in the Donat Archive, John Rylands University Library, Manchester. This was an interdisciplinary project which considered the relationships between both theatre and film and acting and stardom, in the process challenging the notion of film as a predominantly visual medium by looking at the role of the actor's voice, both as a signifying and performance practice.
Current research projects:
1. Adapating Performance: Stage and Screen. 80, 000 word monograph for Intellect.
Further information
Current/recent teaching:
My teaching interests cover Contemporary British Cinema, the relationships between stage and screen, screen acting, and contemporary UK performance practices. .
Courses:
DRAM 30171: Between Stage and Screen
DRAM 10032: Art of Film
DRAM 20031: Contemporary British Cinema
DRAM 30222: Screen Acting and Stardom
MA: Options
Beyond the Method:Traditions in Screen Performance
Research Tools and Methods: Archive Methodology.
Contemporary British Cinema
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Digital Futures
- Creative Manchester
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'This genuine theatre condition': Basil Dean and the 1938 BBC outside broadcast of J. B. Priestley's When We Are Married
Lowe, V., Apr 2022, Screen plays: Theatre plays on British television. Wrigley, A. & Wyver, J. (eds.). Manchester University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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A Cuckoo in the Nest (Walls 1933) From Theatre to Film
Lowe, V., 11 May 2021, Transmedia Cultures : A companion . Bacon, S. (ed.). Oxford: Peter Lang, p. 33 - 40 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen
Lowe, V., 23 Dec 2020, Intellect Ltd. 220 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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A Genuine Theatre Condition’: The Outside Broadcast in Early Television Drama: J.B Priestley's When We are Married (November 1938)
Lowe, V., 2020, (Accepted/In press) ScreenPlays. Manchester University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Reframing Performance: The British New Wave on Stage and Screen
Lowe, V., Stewart, M. (ed.) & Munro, R. (ed.), May 2020, Intercultural Screen Adaptation: British and Global Case Studies. Edinburgh University Press, (British and Global Case Studies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review