Victoria Lowe

Victoria Lowe

Dr, Senior Lecturer Drama and Film Studies

  • Senior Lecturer in Drama and Screen Stud, Drama

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Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Film Studies. My interest is in Film and Television History, specialising in British Cinema and Television , 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, C. A Lejeune archive in JRULM and Jocelyn Herbert archive, Univeresity of the Arts, London). 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; early television, 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.

 

Current research projects:

 'Granadaland Revisited: Regional identity, innovation and creativity in UK broadcasting 1956-2004'

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 10032: Art of Film 
DRAM 20031: Contemporary British Cinema 
DRAM 30222: Screen Acting and Stardom 

 

 

MA Teaching 

Cinema and Nation 
Research Tools and Methods: Archive Methodology.

Film Theories 

Film Cultures 

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Digital Futures
  • Creative Manchester

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