Dr Robert G. White
Contact
- Email: r.white@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Department: Department of Journalism, Publishing and Media
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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).
Academic responsibilities
Lecturer in Media and Communication
Qualifications
- PhD in Film Studies and Critical Theory, LGS, Kingston University
- MA Film Studies, Kingston University
- BA Politics, University of Leicester