Dr Andrea Wright
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
Andrea Wright joined Edge Hill University in January 2006 as a full-time lecturer in Film Studies. She teaches on a range of modules across all levels of the programme, is first year tutor and admissions tutor. She also teaches a more specialist module on national cinemas for which she delivers a case study of New Zealand and Australia. Before coming to Edge Hill she gained a BA in the History of Design and the Visual Arts from Staffordshire University and a Masters in Cinema Studies from Nottingham Trent University. She completed her PhD entitled Telling Stories: Gender, Representation and the Appeal of Screen Fairy Tales at London's Roehampton University in November 2007. She has taught on undergraduate programmes in film, media and cultural studies at Nottingham Trent University and The University of Derby. She is a member of the New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA).
Research
- Screen fairytales/ fantasy cinema
- Set design
- Film marketing and merchandising
- New Zealand cinema
Publications
- ‘A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? The Problematic Representation of Women and the Female Body in 1980s Sword and Sorcery Cinema’, Journal of Gender Studies (forthcoming 2012/13)
- 'Quiet Earths: Adaptation, Representation and National Identity in New Zealand’s Apocalypse', in Thomas Van Parys and Ian Hunter (eds.) Science Fiction Across Media: Adaptation/Novelisation, Canterbury: Gylphi (forthcoming 2012)
- ‘Imagining the Fairy Tale: Production Design in The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, 1984) and Legend (Ridley Scott, 1985)’, in Anna Kérchy (ed.), Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.
- “Selling the Fantastic - The Marketing and Merchandising of the 1980s Fairytale Film”, in Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume 2, Number 2, 2005.
- “Myths of Britishness: Four Weddings and a Funeral (1995), Notting Hill (2000), and Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)”, in Anglofiles (Denmark), Issue 128, May 2003.
- “Realms of Enchantment: New Zealand Landscape as Tolkienesque”, in Ian Conrich and David Woods (eds.), New Zealand - A Pastoral Paradise? Nottingham: Kakapo Books, 2000.
Conference Papers
- 2009 - “Quiet Earths: Adaptation, Representation and National Identity in New Zealand’s Apocalypse” presented at Science Fiction across Media: Adaptation/Novelisation, The Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
- 2009 - “Imagining the Fairy Tale: Production Design in The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, 1984) and Legend (Ridley Scott, 1985)” presented at The Fairy Tale after Angela Carter, University of East Anglia.
- 2009 - “A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? The Representation of Women in 1980s Sword and Sorcery Cinema” presented at the British Association for American Studies 54th Annual Conference, University of Nottingham.
- 2008 – “Summers of Love: Film and the Coming of Age in 1970s New Zealand”, accepted for presentation at the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand on a special panel entitled ‘NZ Films in the UK’, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
- 2008 – “Classical Myths and Legendary Journeys: Hercules and New Zealand”, presented at the New Zealand and the Mediterranean, the 15th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, Florence, Italy.
- 2003 – “Animal Magic: Fantasy Beasts and the 1980s Screen Fairytale”, presented at Texts and Beasts, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds.
Critical Reviews
- Review of Duncan Petrie, Shot in New Zealand: The Art and Craft of the Kiwi Cinematographer, in NZSA Bulletin of New Zealand Studies (Issue 2, 2010), pp.296-298.
- 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'(2002), in British Review of New Zealand Studies (BRONZS), Issue 14, 2005.
- 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' (2001), in British Review of New Zealand Studies (BRONZS), Issue 13, 2003.
- 'The Family Way: The Boulting Brothers and British Film Culture' by Alan Burton, Tim O'Sullivan and Paul Wells (eds.) in Journal of Popular British Cinema, Issue 4, 2001.