Dr Caroline Bainbridge

Biography and Research Interests

Caroline Bainbridge is Reader in Visual Culture and Director of the AHRC funded Media and the Inner World Research Network which she organises with Candida Yates of the University of East London. Caroline is Programme Convener for the MA Media, Culture and Identity in the School of Arts. She is also the Research Student Coordinator within the Media and Cultural Studies subject area and plays an active role in the Centre for Research in Film and Audio-Visual Cultures (CRFAC) and the Centre for Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests are in cinema, gender, psychoanalysis, visual culture, the politics of identity and the emotional turn in popular culture. Caroline supervises a number of research students and welcomes proposals for research at both the MPhil and PhD levels.

Research Student Supervision

Director of Studies for Current PhDs

Si Chan Park, 'Bresson's Style and Modernity'.

Denzell Richards, 'Interactive Practice and Intertextual Readings: The Popular DVD Collectors Market'.

Amanda Wayling-Yates, 'Teenage Girls and Female Telvision Presenters: An ethnographic study'.

PhD Supervised to Completion and Award
Greg Tuck, 'The Sexual Logic of Late Capitalism', Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. Awarded January 2005.

Elisa Pezzotta, 'Adaptations: Kubrick's Challenges', Roehampton University. Awarded July 2009.

Teaching

MA Media and Cultural Studies
'Cultural Theory and Politics'
'Media Culture'
'New Media
'Dissertation'

BA Media and Cultural Studies
'Ways of Looking'
'Screening Gender'
'Emotions in Culture'
'Independent Supervised Project'
'Independent Study'
'Dissertation'

Publications - Books

The Cinema of Lars von Trier, London: Wallflower Press, 2007.

A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film, London: Palgrave, 2008.

Publications - Edited Books and Journals

Culture and the Unconscious, London: Palgrave, 2007. (Ed. with S. Radstone, M. Rustin and C. Yates.)

Co-editor of special edition of Journal for Cultural Research (with A. Biressi & H. Nunn) entitled 'Trauma and Ethics in the Field of Vision', Vol. 8, No. 3, July 2004.

Publications - Journal Articles and Chapters

'Everything to Play For: Masculinity, trauma and the pleasures of DVD technologies' (with Candida Yates), in Bainbridge, C., Radstone, S., Rustin, M. & Yates, C. (eds) Culture and the Unconscious, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-122.

'Cinematic Symptoms of Masculinity in Transition: Memory, History and Mythology in Contemporary Film' (with Candida Yates), Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, vol.10, no. 3, pp. 299-318, 2005.

'Just Looking? Traumatic Affect, Film Form and Spectatorship', Screen, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 353-369, Winter 2004.

'Making Waves: Trauma and Ethics in the Work of Lars von Trier', Journal for Cultural Research, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 129-141, July 2004.

'On Feminine Enunciation in the Cinema', Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory Special Issue: Dialogues with Luce Irigaray, vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 129-141, 2003.

'Luce Irigaray' in Elliott, A. & Turner, B.(eds)Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory, London: Sage, pp. 184-193, 2001.

Conferences and Events

Conference and Event Planning
(2009) 'Media and the Inner World' AHRC funded Research Network - Opening Symposium', 7th March, Roehampton University, London

(2007) 'After the Fact/Still Live' series of screenings and related CRFAC symposium in collaboration with the National Film Theatre, London.

(2007) 'TV Futures', CRFAC Symposium, Roehampton University, London.

(2005-2007) Co-Organiser and Chair, 'CRFAC Research Seminar Programme', Roehampton University, London.

(2004) 'Culture and the Unconscious 2' conference, University of East London & Tavistock Clinic held at SOAS, University of London.

(2003) 'Culture and the Unconscious' conference, University of East London, Tavistock Clinic & the British Association of Psychoanalysts held at SOAS, University of London.

Invited Speaker/Chair and Selected Research Papers:
(2007)'Tanker om Trier: Caroline Bainbridge and Stig Björkman in Conversation', Copenhagen Film Festival special event held at the Danish Film Institute.

(2006) '"You can judge a man by his DVD collection": Masculine Identity, Pleasure and Consumption in the age of DVD and the Internet' (joint paper with Candida Yates of UEL), ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change ‘Media Change and Social Theory’ Conference, Oxford.

(2006) Invited Speaker, Cultural Memory Symposium, 'Memory, Bodies and Illness', Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.

(2006) 'Everything to Play For: Masculinity, trauma and the pleasures of DVD technologies' (joint paper with Candida Yates of UEL), Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Vancover, Canada.

(2005) Invited Speaker, 'Making Waves: Discourses of Difference in the Work of Lars von Trier', University of Essex.

(2005) Chair, 'Image and Audience' Panel, CRFAC 'Tabloid Culture and Media Spectacle' Symposium, Roehampton University, London.

(2004) Chair Plenary session – Stuart Hall, 'Culture and the Unconscious 2' – University of East London and Tavistock Clinic, SOAS, University of London.

(2004)Invited Speaker, 'The Moment of Truth: Fiction Film and the Documentary Aesthetic', CRFAC 'Reality TV: Contexts, Debates, Futures' Symposium, Roehampton University, London.

(2004)'Digital Technologies and Masculinity in Trauma: Re-staging the fictions of Memento via DVD and the Internet', Console-ing Passions Conference, New Orleans.

(2004) Panel Speaker at the second of the ICA/Wellcome Trust/Documentary Film Group London series of discussion events on pain: 'Documentary cinema and pain, trauma and loss', ICA, London.

(2003) 'True Lies? Memory, Masculinity and The Question of Trauma in Memento’, National Communication Association Convention, Miami, US.

(2003) Invited Speaker, 'True Lies?', Film@Lancaster seminar, University of Lancaster.

(2003) 'Screening Trauma: Form and Affect', Panel of 3 papers (with Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn), Screen conference, Glasgow.

(2003) 'A Dialogue on Cinematic Trauma and Masculinity', Panel (with Candida Yates), Literature/Psychology conference, University of Greenwich, London.

(2003) Invited speaker, 'Irigarayan approaches to The Piano', Centre for Narrative Research Visual Workshop, King’s College, Cambridge.

(2002) 'Constructing Masculinities in Memento', Language/Communication/Culture Conference, Universidad de Evora, Portugal.

(2002) 'Making Waves: Constructions of subjectivity and spectatorship in the cinema of Lars von Trier', Psychological Cultural Studies panel convened by Valerie Walkerdine, Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland.

(2001) Guest Lecture: 'Reading Gender in Orlando’, The Tavistock Clinic, London.

(2001) Invited Speaker, 'Feminine Enunciation in the Cinema', International, Intercultural, Intergenerational Dialogues about the Works of Luce Irigaray, University of Leeds (AHRB funded).

(2000) 'Unspeakable moments of Feminine Cinema', Screen Conference, University of Glasgow.

Publications

(2008) A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film, London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 223pp..

Bainbridge, C., Radstone, S., Rustin, M. & Yates, C. (eds) (2007) Culture and the Unconscious, London: Palgrave.

Bainbridge, C. & Yates, C. (2007) Everything to Play For: Masculinity, Trauma and the Pleasures of DVD Technologies, in Culture and the Unconscious. London: Palgrave.

Bainbridge, C. (2007) The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice, London: Wallflower Press.

Bainbridge, C. & Yates, C. (2005) Cinematic Symptoms of Masculinity in Transition: Memory, History and Mythology in Contemporary Film, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 10: 3, 299-318.

Bainbridge, C. (2004) 'Just Looking? Traumatic Affect, Film Form and Spectatorship', Screen, 45 (4), 391-400.

Bainbridge, C. (2004) 'Making Waves: Trauma and Ethics in the Work of Lars von Trier', Journal for Cultural Research, 8 (3), 353-369.

Bainbridge, C. & Yates, C. (2003) 'Cinematic Symptoms of Masculinity: Trauma, Hysteria and Difference', Literature and Psychoanalysis: Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Literature and Psychoanalysis, Greenwich, London, UK, July 2003, 43-46.

Bainbridge, C. (2003) 'Reconstructing Memories of Masculine Subjectivity in Memento: Narrative Form and the Fiction of the Self, the Twentieth International Conference on Literature and Psychoanalysis, Greenwich, London, UK, July 2003, 47-52.

Bainbridge, C. (2002) 'Feminine Enunciation in Cinema', Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, 25 (3), 129-141.

Bainbridge, C. (2001) 'Luce Irigaray', in Anthony Elliott & Bryan S. Turner (eds), Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory. London: Sage., 184-193.

Research Projects Undertaken

(2007) AHRC award (Research Leave Scheme) to enable completion of A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, women and film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

(2009) AHRC award (Research Network Scheme), Media and the Inner World. See www.miwnet.org