Colin MacCabe

Colin MacCabe is a British writer and film producer. He is distinguished professor of English and film at the University of Pittsburgh, professor of English and humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, and a visiting professor at the University of Exeter.

MacCabe was educated at St Benedict's School and the University of Cambridge where he began his academic career. He came to public prominence in 1981 when he was denied tenure, apparently in consequence of his position at the centre of a much publicised dispute within the faculty of English concerning the teaching of structuralism.^[1]

He has published widely on film and literature with particular emphasis on James Joyce, Jean-Luc Godard, and topics in the history and theory of language. He has served as chairman of the London Consortium, which he co-founded with Mark Cousins, Paul Hirst, and Richard Humphreys. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Critical Quarterly.^[2]

Selected writings

• James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word
• Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics
• Tracking the Signifier: Theoretical Essays on Film, Linguistics, Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985)
• Diary of a Young Soul Rebel (with Isaac Julien)
• The Eloquence of the Vulgar: Language, Cinema and the Politics of Culture

Filmography

• Caravaggio - (Executive Producer / 2002 / Released / Cinevista Video)
• Howard Hawks: American Artist - (Executive Producer / 1997 / Released /)
• 100 Years of Polish Cinema - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1996 / Released / Miramax Films)
• 40,000 Years of Dreaming: a Century of Australian Cinema - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1996 / Released /)
• Aristotle's Plot - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1996 / Released /)
• Irish Cinema - Ourselves Alone? - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1996 / Released / Miramax Films)
• The Russian Idea - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1996 / Released / Miramax Films)
• The Show Goes On - The Indian Chapter - (Executive Producer / 1996 / Released / BIM Distribuzione)
• The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera - (Producer / 1996 / Released /)
• 100 Years of Japanese Cinema - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1995 / Released / Miramax Films)
• 2 X 50 Years of French Cinema - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1995 / Released / Miramax Films)
• Cinema of Tears - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1995 / Released / Miramax Films)
• Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey By Sam Neill - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1995 / Released / Miramax Films)
• Cinema on the Road - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1995 / Released / Miramax Films)
• I am Curious, Film - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1995 / Released / Miramax Films)
• The Night of the Film-Makers - (Executive Producer((BFI-TV)) / 1995 / Released / Miramax Films)
• The Long Day Closes - (Executive Producer / 1993 / Released / Mayfair Entertainment UK)
• On the Black Hill - (Executive Producer / 1991 / Released / Roxie Releasing)
• Young Soul Rebels - (Executive Producer / 1991 / Released / Prestige Films)
• Fellow Traveller - (Executive Producer((BFI)) / 1990 / Released / British Film Institute)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives - (Executive Producer / 1989 / Released / Avenue Entertainment)
• Friendship's Death - (Executive Producer / 1989 / Released / British Film Institute)
• Melancholia - (Producer / 1989 / Released / Mikado Films)
• Venus Peter - (Executive Producer / 1989 / Released / International Video Productions)

References

1. ^ Newsweek, February 16 (1981), p. 95; see also Philip Lewis, "The Post-Structualist Condition," Diacritics 12:1 (1982): 2-24, p. 2.
2. ^ "Critical Quarterly". Wiley Online Library. Wiley-Blackwell. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8705. Retrieved 2011-02-04. 

External links

• Colin MacCabe at the Internet Movie Database
• MacCabe's homepage from University of Pittsburgh

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