Dr. Gareth Stanton
Position held:
Senior Lecturer in Communications
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7624
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7919 7616
Email:
g.stanton (@gold.ac.uk)
Gareth Stanton's research interests include histories of anthropology and the media, migration and diaspora, postcolonial criticism, literature and identity, 'third cinema' and the ethnography of the Maghreb.
Areas of supervision
Gareth is particularly interested in supervising research in the following areas: postcolonial cultural production, postcolonial discourse theory, world cinema, cultural/media histories of the Maghreb, histories of British cultural studies, ethnographies and writing. Current research students include: Anna Seif, 'Discourses of dispossession: Palestine and the Palestinians in early photography and film'; Richard McDonald, 'World Cinema and the Connoisseur Mode of Spectatorship'; Min-Kyoung Kwon, 'The 'Lotteriazation' of Korean society'; Theresa Cronin, 'The Body in the Machine: Science Fiction Cinema, subjectivity and the Body'; Hsiu-Chin Hung, 'Japanese and Korean 'Trendy Drama' and Youth Identity in Taiwanese culture'.
Research interests
Gareth's current research includes work on football culture in Morocco and the Welsh film industry.
Selected publications
Driss ChraÔbi, Une EnquÍte au pays (editor, Introduction, Notes and Bibliography), Bristol Classical Press, 1999.
Postcolonial Criticism (edited with Bart Moore-Gilbert and Willy Maley), Longman, 1997.
'The Oriental City: a North African Itinerary', Third Text, 3/4, 1988, 3-38
'Military Rock: a mis-anthropology', in Cultural Studies, 12:2, 1996, 270-287.
'Gaucho Aesthetics', in Critique of Anthropology, 19:4, 1999, 443-447.
'Gorer's Gaze: aspects of the inauguration of audience studies in British Television', Goldsmiths Occasional Papers in Anthropology, 2000.
'The Way of the Body: Paul Stoller's search for sensuous ethnography', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 3:2, 2000, 259.
'Frantz Fanon in Context', History Workshop Journal, 53, 2002, 246-254.
'"New Welsh Cinema as postcolonial critique', Journal of Popular British Cinema, 5, 2002, 77-89.
'The Play of Identity: Gibraltar and Its Migrants', in V. Goddard, et al (eds.), The Anthropology of Europe, Berg, 1994.
'In Defence of Savage Civilisation: Tom Harrisson, Cultural Studies and Anthropology', in S. Nugent and C. Shore (eds.), Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Pluto, 1997.