Dr Robert G. White
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Journalism, Publishing and Media
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Lecturer in Media and Communication
- Email:
- r.white@kingston.ac.uk
About
I teach on the BA and MA in Media and Communication at Kingston. I am the module leader for the spring semester MA module Media and Globalisation, which examines how media can both reinforce and resist globalised neoliberalism and neocolonialism. I have also taught Media Studies at Edge Hill University, and Film Studies here at Kingston and at the University of Brighton.
I completed my PhD—entitled: Beyond Partition: A Topology of al-Shatat in Post-Palestinian Cinema—at the London Graduate School, here at Kingston University. My research interests explore the intersection of film, philosophy and politics, particularly global cinemas of resistance. My doctoral research utilised a topological approach to examine the dual questions of partition and the resistance of the image in contemporary Palestinian cinema.
I am the co-editor of Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault (Bloomsbury, 2018) and my research has been published in Film Criticism and the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. My current research draws on Theodor Adorno's notion of atonality and Edward Said's thinking of counterpoint to examine the use of intertextual dialogue in contemporary Palestinian Cinema, through which works both reference and critique cinematic and literary texts which have constructed an ‘Image of Palestine.' This research is the focus of my forthcoming monograph, An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Qualifications
- PhD in Film Studies and Critical Theory, LGS, Kingston University
- MA Film Studies, Kingston University
- BA Politics, University of Leicester
Domains
in June 2016 I completed the Introduction to Learning and Teaching 1 course at Kingston. I now hold Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education. I am keen to continue my professional development and pursue Fellowship of the HEA. I aim to deliver a balance in my lectures between ‘doing' and ‘thinking', breaking them into 20-minute cycles, so that students have ample opportunity to reflect on and apply new knowledge to practical examples. This is an extension of both my HE development and teaching experience in English as a Foreign Language.
Qualifications
- AFHEA
Courses taught
My research interests explore the intersection of film, philosophy and politics, particularly global cinemas of resistance. My doctoral research utilised a topological approach to examine the dual questions of partition and the resistance of the image in contemporary Palestinian cinema.
I am the co-editor of Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault (Bloomsbury, 2018) and my research has been published in Film Criticism and the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. My current research draws on Theodor Adorno's notion of atonality and Edward Said's thinking of counterpoint to examine the use of intertextual dialogue in contemporary Palestinian Cinema, through which works both reference and critique cinematic and literary texts which have constructed an ‘Image of Palestine.' This research is the focus of my forthcoming monograph, An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Qualifications
- PhD in Film Studies and Critical Theory, LGS, Kingston University
Specialisms
- Cinema of Palestine/Israel
- Global Cinemas of Resistance
- Film-Philosophy
Scholarly affiliations
- Kingston School of Art
- LGS, Kingston University
Publications
From Bethlehem to Basilicata : framing Pasolini from Palestine
White, Robert, 2022, (10), 1, pp 59-76
Spacing the interior : the carceral body as heterotopia in contemporary Palestinian cinema
White, Robert (2018). In: Hancock, David, (eds.), Faramelli, Anthony, (eds.) and White, Robert, (eds.), Spaces of crisis and critique : heterotopias beyond Foucault. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 79-104
Beyond partition : a topology of al-shatat in Post-Palestinian cinema
White, Robert G. (2019), PhD thesis, Kingston University