Biography:Catherine O'Brien (film scholar)

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Catherine O'Brien (born in 1962) is a British academic, film scholar, linguist and writer.[1] Her main fields are French cinema; the First World War[2] in French and German cultures in relation to art and comparative literature[3] and the intersections between cinema, theology and religion.[4][5][6]

Early life and education

O'Brien obtained a Bachelor of Arts (1985) as well as a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.;1994) both in French and German from the University of Hull in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England .[7][8]

Academic career

From 1989 to 2017, O'Brien was a senior lecturer at Kingston University, a public research university located within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South West London, United Kingdom . O'Brien was mainly based at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the Penrhyn Road Campus.[9][10] She taught a wide range of courses on both the French and the Film Studies degrees and was a Module Leader for French Cinema, New Wave Cinema, European Cinema, Female Archetypes on Screen and final-year French Language.[11] O'Brien was the Course Director for the Master of Art in Film Studies from 2003 to 2007. As Director of Studies, she has supervised Doctorate theses.[12] She went on to become the co-director of the Center for Marian Studies at the University of Roehampton in England .[13][14] O'Brien has been a visiting professor at several universities in the West such as the University of Westminster[15] or the University of Notre Dame located in South Bend in Indiana .[16][17]

Selected bibliography

Non-exhaustive list of her works:[18]

Books

  • Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion (2018, ISBN:9781350003309).[19]
  • The Celluloid Madonna: From Scripture to Screen - investigating the screen portrait of the Virgin Mary (2011, ISBN:9780231501811).
  • Women's Fictional Responses to the First World War: A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by French and German Writers (1997, ISBN:0820431419).[20]

Articles

  • "Love, What Have You Done to Me?" Eros and agape in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess. Journal of Religion and Film, 18(1), (2014, ISSN 1092-1311).
  • "In Bruges: heaven or hell?" Literature and Theology, 26(1), pp. 93–105. (2012, ISSN 0269-1205).
  • "Marian film in the 21st century". Marian Studies, 60, pp. 287–296. (2009, ISSN 0464-9680).
  • "Mythological readings of Mary's motherhood". Marian Studies, 57, (2006, ISSN 0464-9680).
  • "Seeking perfection of form: French cultural responses to the dogma of the Immaculate Conception". Marian Studies, LV, pp. 114–134. (2004, ISSN 0464-9680).
  • "From sacred to secular: translations of the infancy narratives in Twentieth Century French culture". Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies, 3(2), pp. 226–238,(2003, ISSN 1462-4087).
  • "When radical meets conservative: Godard, Delannoy and the Virgin Mary". Literature and theology: an international journal of religion, theory and culture, 15(2), pp. 174–186, (2001, ISSN 0269-1205).
  • "Book Review of: Writing otherwise: Atlan, Duras, Giraudon, Redonnet, and Wittig by Jeannette Gaudet". French Studies, 55(2), pp. 276–277, (2001, ISSN 0016-1128).
  • "Beyond the can[n]on: French women's responses to the First World War". French Cultural Studies, 7(20), pp. 201–213, (1996, ISSN 0957-1558).

Book sections

  • "Women in the cinematic gospels". In: Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda, (ed.) The Bible in motion : a handbook of the Bible and its reception in film. Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 449–462, (2016, ISBN:9781614515616).
  • "Mary in film". In: Boss, Sarah Jane, (ed.) Mary: the complete resource. London, U.K. : Continuum. pp. 532–536, (2007, ISBN:0860123413).
  • "Mary in modern European literature". In: Boss, Sarah Jane, (ed.) Mary: the complete resource. London, U.K. : Continuum. pp. 521–531, (2007, ISBN:0860123413).
  • "Sacrificial rituals and wounded hearts: the uses of Christian symbolism in French and German women’s responses to the First World War". In: Fell, Alison S. and Sharp, Ingrid, (eds.) The Women’s Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914–19. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 244–259, (2007, ISBN:0230019668).
  • "A double message: French literary responses to Mariology". In: Cooke, Paul and Lee, Jane, (eds.) (Un)faithful texts? : religion in France and Francophone literature, from the 1780s to the 1980s. New Orleans, USA : University Press of the South. pp. 201–213, (2000, ISBN:1889431524).
  • "There is no greater love: Biblical imagery in Women's First World War literature". In: Schneider, Thomas F, (ed.) The experience of war and the creation of myths : the image of modern war in literature, theatre, photography, and film. Osnabrück, Germany : Universitätsverlag Rasch. pp. 339–351, (1999, ISBN:9783934005143).

Conferences

  • Scorsese’s divine tragedy - Roehampton, U.K. (october 2013)
  • Biblical tales - a mother's love: adapting the story of Mary and Jesus for the screen - European Cinema Research Forum Annual Conference in Ormskirk, U.K (16-18 July 2012).
  • "Ave Maria”: sacred spaces in 'Lourdes' and '28 Days Later' - NECS Conference: Sonic Futures: soundscapes and the languages of screen media, London, U.K.. (June 2011)
  • Agape: a maternal narrative. In: Representations of Love in Film and Television; 11–14 November, Milwaukee, U.S. (2010)
  • In Bruges: heaven or hell? - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference; 24 - 27 Jun, Istanbul, Turkey. (2010).
  • An ordinary extraordinary couple: performing the life of Mary and Joseph - Kingston upon Thames, U.K. (July 2009).
  • The life of Mary in film - The Mariological Society of America 60th Annual Program, Florida, U.S. (May 2009).
  • The celluloid Madonna : re-visioning the narrative of the mother of Jesus, Southampton, U.K. (September 2008)
  • Mythological readings of Mary's motherhood - Mariological Society of America 57th Annual Meeting, Detroit, U.S. (May 2006).
  • The nature of sacrifice. In: The Gentler Sex? Responses of the women's movement to the First World War 1914–1919, London, U.K. (September 2005).
  • The marshmallow effect: writing the life of the Virgin Mary in French culture - Society of French Studies Conference, Sheffield, U.K. (July 2003)[21].

See also

  • France–Germany relations.
  • List of religious films.
  • Cinema of France.

References

  1. ↑ "Classifications: PN1995.9.M334, 791.43682.". https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n96003756/. 
  2. ↑ Fell, A.; Sharp, I. (2007-04-12) (in en). The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-19. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-21079-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=ku6ADAAAQBAJ. 
  3. ↑ Rinke, andrea (2006) (in en). Images of Women in East German Cinema, 1972-1982: Socialist Models, Private Dreamers and Rebels. Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-5684-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=eNEbAQAAIAAJ. 
  4. ↑ "Virtual international authority file - Individual 271389553". https://viaf.org/viaf/271389553/#O'Brien,_Catherine,_1962-. 
  5. ↑ "IdRef Website - Identifiers and repositories for Higher Education". https://www.idref.fr/058574557. 
  6. ↑ "For Authors – Knowledge Unlatched" (in en-US). https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/for-authors/. 
  7. ↑ Deighton, Alan (1995) (in en). Order from Confusion: Essays Presented to Edward McInnes on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. New German Studies, German Department, University of Hull. ISBN 978-0-85958-750-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Hs4gAQAAIAAJ. 
  8. ↑ O'Brien, Catherine; O'Brien, Professor Catherine (1997) (in en). Women's Fictional Responses to the First World War: A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by French and German Writers. P. Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-3141-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=UPizAAAAIAAJ&q=catherine+o'brien+hull+university. 
  9. ↑ Lloyd, Professor Fran; Lloyd, Fran; O'Brien, Catherine (2000) (in en). Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Rethinking Culture. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-788-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=VJT5CZABDx8C. 
  10. ↑ Reinhardt, Catherine A. (2006) (in en). Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-079-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=7ItZ3rkWk8MC. 
  11. ↑ Leglu, Catherine (2017-12-02) (in en). Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of the Parody in the Troubadour Lyric. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-19829-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=9CNBDwAAQBAJ. 
  12. ↑ Gratton, Johnnie (2000) (in en). Expressivism: The Vicissitudes of a Theory in the Writing of Proust and Barthes. European Humanities Res Ctr. ISBN 978-1-900755-26-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=nvFYAAAAMAAJ. 
  13. ↑ "About | The Centre for Marian Studies" (in en). https://www.marianstudies.ac.uk/about. 
  14. ↑ "Oxford University Department for Continuing Education". https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/tutors/3735. 
  15. ↑ "Varia | University of Westminster, London". https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/varia. 
  16. ↑ Dame, University of Notre (15 March 2016). "Lecture: The Virgin Mary on Screen - Mother and Disciple // College of Arts and Letters // University of Notre Dame" (in en). https://al.nd.edu/news/events/2016/03/15/lecture-the-virgin-mary-on-screen-mother-and-disciple/. 
  17. ↑ "In the News: May 5, 2016" (in en). https://udayton.edu/blogs/imri/2016-05-05-news.php. 
  18. ↑ "Items where Kingston Author is "O'Brien, Catherine" - Kingston University Research Repository". https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/view/creators/4815.html. 
  19. ↑ O'Brien, Catherine (2018). Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1350003293. 
  20. ↑ O'Brien, Catherine (1997). Women's Fictional Responses to the First World War: A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by French and German Writers. USA: University of California. ISBN 0820431419. 
  21. ↑ University of London (6 November 2018). "Dr Catherine O'Brien's Works". https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/view/creators/4815.html. 



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