Dr Anthony Paraskeva - Lecturer
Contact Details
E-Mail : A.Paraskeva@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (01382) 38-4440
Room Location: 3.3, Tower Extension
Research Interests
- Modernism and film
- writing and theatricality
- gesture and language
- performance style in theatre and cinema
- politics and the star system
Anthony Paraskeva's main research interests are in the relations between literature, theatre and cinema, with a focus on writers, filmmakers and dramatists including Joyce, Lewis, Beckett, Kafka, Proust; Lang, Gance, Dreyer, Keaton, Eisenstein, Resnais, Godard; Artaud, Gordon Craig, Brecht, Meyerhold.
He is currently preparing articles on early talkies, the use of kinesics and film in Robert Wilson, Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, Lars Von Trier, Iain Sinclair and Nicholas Roeg, Wyndham Lewis and Theodor Adorno, and Brecht in Hollywood. He is also working on his forthcoming monograph The Speech-Gesture Complex: Modernism, Theatre, Cinema.
Publications
Articles & Book Chapters
'"An Actor Prepares": The Rehearsal Process in David Lynch's Inland Empire' (forthcoming, 2011)
'In the beginning was the gest': Theatre, Cinema and the Language of Gesture in 'Circe', in Bloomsday 100: Re-Reading Ulysses, ed. by Anne Fogarty and Morris Beja (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009).
'Wyndham Lewis Vs Charlie Chaplin', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 43:2 (July 2007)
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