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Duncan Petrie has designed and taught a wide range of courses at all levels, from stage one BA to Masters including introductory courses on film studies to courses on Hollywood, British, New Zealand, European and Silent Cinema. At Exeter he established two new Masters programmes is now taking a key role in curriculum development at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at York.
His research has been primarily in the areas of British, Scottish and New Zealand cinema and culture, with specific interests in the film-making process, the industrial structures and functioning of national cinemas, the art and craft of cinematography and the relationship between cultural expression and the question of the national.
He has written five monographs: Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry (Macmillan, 1991), The British Cinematographer (BFI, 1996), Screening Scotland (BFI, 2000), Contemporary Scottish Fictions (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) and Shot in new Zealand: The Art and Craft of the Kiwi Cinematographer (Random House, 2007), one co-written volume, A Coming of Age: 30 Years of New Zealand Cinema (Random House, 2008), edited or co-edited a further ten collections, including most recently The Cinema of Small Nations (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), and has contributed numerous book chapters, journal articles and reviews.
His current research is on the history of film schools and their contribution to the development of the art and craft of film-making. This has been inspired by on one hand the lack of serious consideration of the significance of these institutions in film history and on the other by the current lack of any engagement with the topic in debates around education and training policy in the UK and beyond. This work will be published in a monograph (co-authored with Rod Stoneman) entitled ‘Cultivating Film-makers: The Past, Present and Future of Film Schools’.
He is currently the co-principal editor of the Journal of the British Cinema and Television, published by Edinburgh University Press, and am a member of the editorial board of Studies in Australasian Cinema, published by Intellect, and the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Scottish Literature, an on-line journal published by the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.
His research has been primarily in the areas of British, Scottish and New Zealand cinema and culture, with specific interests in the film-making process, the industrial structures and functioning of national cinemas, the art and craft of cinematography and the relationship between cultural expression and the question of the national.
He has written five monographs: Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry (Macmillan, 1991), The British Cinematographer (BFI, 1996), Screening Scotland (BFI, 2000), Contemporary Scottish Fictions (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) and Shot in new Zealand: The Art and Craft of the Kiwi Cinematographer (Random House, 2007), one co-written volume, A Coming of Age: 30 Years of New Zealand Cinema (Random House, 2008), edited or co-edited a further ten collections, including most recently The Cinema of Small Nations (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), and has contributed numerous book chapters, journal articles and reviews.
His current research is on the history of film schools and their contribution to the development of the art and craft of film-making. This has been inspired by on one hand the lack of serious consideration of the significance of these institutions in film history and on the other by the current lack of any engagement with the topic in debates around education and training policy in the UK and beyond. This work will be published in a monograph (co-authored with Rod Stoneman) entitled ‘Cultivating Film-makers: The Past, Present and Future of Film Schools’.
He is currently the co-principal editor of the Journal of the British Cinema and Television, published by Edinburgh University Press, and am a member of the editorial board of Studies in Australasian Cinema, published by Intellect, and the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Scottish Literature, an on-line journal published by the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.