Corin Depper
Corin Depper is a British film scholar. He is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Kingston University, London, a member of The Memory Network, and part of the multi-institutional research project "Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity in Innovation and Practice" (ELMCIP). Depper's work examines the relationships among technology, metaphor, and memory. He has published book chapters and articles on JG Ballard, Matthew Barney, and Jean-Luc Godard.
Early life and education[edit]
Depper obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English and Drama from University of Bristol, a Master of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Warwick and a PhD in Film Studies from the University of East Anglia.[1]
Career[edit]
Depper is a Senior Lecturer in Film in the Department of Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston University as well as a course leader for the MA in Film Studies.[2] His areas of specialism encompass Film Theory, Avant-Garde and Experimental Film, Film Philosophy as well as Modernist Poetry and Poetics. As of November 2018, he has supervised numerous undergraduate and postgraduate Film dissertations and five PhDs. His research examines new technologies’ impacts on the understanding of canonical works of modernism or the relationship between metaphor and memory, focusing on such theories as Aby Warburg’s "Mnemosyne Atlas" or Chris Marker’s "Immemory".
Specialist on memory affiliated to Film Theory, Dr Depper is one of the few researchers members of The Memory Network, multi-disciplinary think tank led by the University of Roehampton, Durham University, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) with support from the Wellcome Trust. Through this network, Dr. Depper addresses new critical perspectives offered by technology, philosophy, biosciences and psychology to explore individual and collective memory in literary narratives and filmic diegeses.[3] He has written about JG Ballard.[4] Dr. Depper is also part of the "Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice" (ELMCIP) research project jointly coordinated by the University of Bergen, the Edinburgh College of Art, the Blekinge Institute of Technology, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Ljubljana and the University of Jyväskylä.[5]
Depper's published work includes book chapters and articles on JG Ballard, Matthew Barney, and Jean-Luc Godard. In a Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts review of the edited volume J. G. Ballard, D. Harlan Wilson wrote that Depper's chapter on film adaptations of Ballard's novels "may be the anthology's most important chapter".[6] Depper has also delivered papers on numerous other topics such as expatriate American poet and critic Ezra Pound amd American painter, sculptor and photographer Cy Twombly.[7]
Selected publications[edit]
- Depper, Corin (2003). The dwelt-in image: Pound & Godard: towards the being of cinema (PhD). University of East Anglia. OCLC 500219073.
- Depper, Corin (2008). "Death at work: the cinematic imagination of J.G. Ballard". In Baxter, Jeannette. J. G. Ballard. Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Continuum. pp. 50–65. ISBN 9780826497260. Search this book on
- Depper, Corin (2009). "Theatres of memory and restraint: Matthew Barney amongst the Neo-Platonists". In Georganta, Konstanta; Collignon, Fabienne; Millim, Anne-Marie. The Apothecary’s Chest: Magic, Art and Medication. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 71–82. ISBN 9781443804943. Search this book on
- Depper, Corin (2016). "Metaphors of memory: from the classical world to modernity". In Groes, Sebastian. Memory in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 27–37. ISBN 9781137520579. Search this book on
Sources[edit]
- ↑ "Academic Contributors". Close Up Film Center. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- ↑ "MA in Film Studies Academic Staff". Kingston University. 24 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ↑ "Our Members - Memory Network". The Memory Network. 12 January 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ↑ J. Baxter, R. Wymer (2011). J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions. New-York: Springer Publishing. pp. 50–67. ISBN 9780230346482. Search this book on
- ↑ "Our Members". ELMCIP. 21 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ↑ Wilson, D. Harlan. "J. G. Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Jeannette Baxter". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 21 (3): 494. JSTOR 24352284.
- ↑ "Corin Depper". Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP). 20 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
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