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Name : Coral Houtman
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Job Title : Senior Lecturer
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Email Address : coral.houtman@newport.ac.uk
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Contact Telephone Number : 01633 857856
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Campus : City Campus
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Academic Faculty and School or Department : School of Film, Photography and Digital Media
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Research Centre or Group : Screen Media and Performance
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Biography : Coral Houtman is a fiction filmmaker and theorist particularly interested in integrating theory and practice in her teaching and research. She gained her Ph.D in 2003 (University of Kent) on the subject of Female Voice and Agency in Film Adaptations. A graduate directing student at the National Film and Television School where she directed Augustine, a forty minute costume drama which won the award for Best Film 1995 at the Houston International Film Festival. She joined the University of Newport in 2001 and teaches film practice, directing and film theory.
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- Research Expertise or Interest : I am a fiction-film maker and theorist, and my research interest lies primarily in the area of practice-as-research. My PhD concentrated on aspects of narrative and point of view, examining the practical aspects of film adaptation, in relationship to mainstream thrillers and feminist films. I have continued to explore matters of female point of view through multi-screen emmersive narrative drama. I am currently completing a research project consisting of a multi-screen narrative installation entitled Echo and Narcissus, working with students and fellow academics, and supported by Skillset, and researching “The Digital Media Essay”.
- Grants Awarded :
- Celt (Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching) Award in 20011 for implementing the Digital Media Essay.
- University Development Grant to support Echo and Narcissus in 2008.
- Skillset grant to pay actors and crew for Echo and Narcissus 2009.
- Research Degree Examiner Appointments : I was also External Examiner for a successful practice as research PhD in filmmaking at the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television, B ol University, on June 12th 2008.
- Publications :
- Forthcoming, “Adventures in Remediation: The Making of Echo” in Digital Creativity
- “The Student Author, Lacanian Discourse Theory and La Nuit Américaine”. in Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice. Clive Myer (Editor), Bill Nichols (Introduction) (Wallflower Press, 2011)
- “Cultural Androgyny and Gendered Authorship in Don’t Look Now” PsyArt: An Online Journal for the psychological study of the arts. Editors, N. Holland, M. Schwarz. March 2009. http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/board.shtml
- Voice and Agency in Film Practice” The Journal of Media Practice Intellect Publications. Vol 5, Issue 2 2004. p101 – 110.
- “Questions of Unreliable Narration in The Sixth Sense” in Scope, the online journal of the University of Nottingham. 2004. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/index.htm.
- Review: Reading Psychoanalysis by Peter L. Rudnitysky, and Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism, by Ranjana Khanna in Leonardo Reviews. (online and printed journal of MIT) 2005
- “Lacan’s Theory of the Four Discourses and The Sixth Sense”. In Journal for Cultural Research. Vol 2. Issue 3. 2003 p277 -297