BA (University of California, Irvine), PhD (University of California, Davis)

Pathway Leader and Senior Lecturer, Film Studies

Office Hours: Tuesday 2.00 - 3.00pm, Thursday 3.00-5.00pm

Room: Hel 269

Email: tina.kendall@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2924
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2924



Dr Tina Kendall's research activity

Dr Tina Kendall is Pathway Leader for Film Studies. She is module leader for 'Film, Modernity and Postmodernity', 'Theorizing the Specular' and 'Introduction to Film & Cinema', and co-leader of the MA module on 'The New Extremism' in European cinema.

Her current research interests include European and American cinema and continental philosophy. She is particularly interested in theories of affect, ethics and unpleasure, and in materialist theory and 'new materialist' philosophy. She is co-editor of The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), the first collection of essays devoted to provocative work of filmmakers such as Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, Gaspar Noé, Catherine Breillat, and others. Her own chapter for this book explores the influence of Georges Bataille in the films of the new extremism, focusing on Christophe Honoré's adaptation of Ma Mère.

Other published work includes articles and book chapters on Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher in New Review of Film & Television Studies and on DVD stills galleries and the 'digital uncanny'.

More recently, Kendall has edited a special issue of Film-Philosophy on disgust (15.2). She is presently working on an article on Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers, and is preparing a monograph study of the films of Bruno Dumont.

Tina is interested in supervising research in the following areas:

• The 'new extremism' in European cinema
• Cinema and ethics
• Theories of affect and visceral spectatorship
• 'New Materialist' approaches to film

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