Catherine Fowler (film and media academic)

Catherine Fowler
Born1969
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Warwick
Thesis
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago, Southampton Solent University

Catherine Fowler (born 1969) is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in historical and contemporary film studies.

Academic career

Fowler completed a PhD titled The films of Chantal Akerman: a cinema of displacements at the University of Warwick in 1995.[1] Fowler lectured on film studies for ten years at Southampton Institute of Higher Education (now known as Solent University), where she also set up and led a master's programme in independent film and filmmaking.[2] Fowler then joined the faculty of the University of Otago, rising to associate professor in 2014 and full professor in 2022.[3][4] From 1994 to 1998, Fowler was screen correspondent for the Créteil International Women's Film Festival.[2]

Fowler has written books on British film director Sally Potter and the Chantal Akerman film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.[5][6]

Fowler was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to visit UCLA, Yale and Harvard Universities to talk about video art.[4] In 2014 Fowler was runner-up in the 2014 British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies prize for best article, for her article Remembering Cinema “elsewhere”: From Retrospection to Introspection in the Gallery Film.[7] The judges described Fowler's essay as an "insightful analysis of moving image installations that utilise and reflect on sequences from existing films suggests new ways of thinking about our engagement with cinema history, and provides an interesting intervention into contemporary debates around the notion of cinephilia."[7]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Catherine Fowler (Q109666136).

Books and edited books

  • Fowler, C. (Ed.). (2002). The European cinema reader. London, UK: Routledge, 255p
  • Fowler, C. & Helfield, G. (Eds.). (2006). Representing the rural: Space, place, and identity in films about the land. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 384p.
  • Fowler, C. (2008). Sally Potter. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 168p.
  • Fowler, C. (2013) Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781839022821
  • Higgins, T., & Fowler, C. (Eds.). (2023). Epistolary entanglements in film, media and the visual arts. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 280p. doi: 10.5117/9789463729666

Journal articles

  • Catherine Fowler (December 2012). "Remembering Cinema "Elsewhere": From Retrospection to Introspection in the Gallery Film". Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. 51 (2): 26–45. doi:10.1353/CJ.2012.0008. ISSN 0009-7101. Wikidata Q125167631.
  • Catherine Fowler (December 2008). "Into the light: re‐considering off‐frame and off‐screen space in gallery films". New Review of Film and Television Studies. 6 (3): 253–267. doi:10.1080/17400300802418578. ISSN 1740-0309. Wikidata Q125456876.
  • Catherine Fowler (2013). "The Clock: Gesture and Cinematic Replaying". Framework. 54 (2): 226–242. doi:10.1353/FRM.2013.0020. ISSN 0306-7661. Wikidata Q125167618.

References

  1. ^ Fowler, Catherine (1995). The films of Chantal Akerman: a cinema of displacements (PhD thesis). University of Warwick.
  2. ^ a b Media, Film and Communication (15 February 2023). "Professor Catherine Fowler". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  3. ^ Gibb, John (2 January 2014). "12 staff to become professors". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  4. ^ a b Centre, Bioethics (22 November 2021). "Otago announces Professorial promotions for 2022". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  5. ^ "The greatest film you've never seen". RNZ. 10 December 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  6. ^ bloomsbury.com. "Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  7. ^ a b Media, Film and Communication (1 November 2013). "2014 BAFTSS award to Associate Professor Catherine Fowler". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 April 2024.