Article
Unconscious Figures and Otherness: The Case of Ex Machina
Dovalis J & Izod J (2021) Unconscious Figures and Otherness: The Case of Ex Machina. Psychological Perspectives, 64 (2), pp. 254-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2021.1959796
Professor John Izod
Professor Emeritus
Communications, Media and Culture University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
About me
I am Emeritus Professor of Screen Analysis and have worked in Stirling since the establishment of film studies here in 1978. I have retired but continue to pursue the research interests that have fascinated me for years.
Research (2)
Cinema as Therapy: Grief and Transformational Films is the latest work reflecting my research interest in the Post-Jungian analysis of film and television. Joanna Dovalis and I have begun work on its successor talking into account recent theoretical developments. I was Co-Investigator on an AHRC-funded project British Silent Cinema and the Transition to Sound, 2014 to 2017. From 2007 to 2010 I led a team in a three-year research project on The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. I am the author of several books, in addition to numerous articles. The books include: Reading the Screen (Longman 1984) Hollywood and the Box Office, 1895-1986 (Macmillan 1988) The Films of Nicolas Roeg (Macmillan 1992) An Introduction to Television Documentary (Manchester University Press, 1997) with Richard Kilborn Myth, Mind and the Screen: Understanding the Heroes of our Time (Cambridge University Press, 2001) Screen, Culture and Psyche: A Post-Jungian Approach to Working with the Audience (Routledge, 2006) Lindsay Anderson: Cinema Authorship (Manchester University Press, 2012) with Karl Magee, Kathryn Hannan and Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard Cinema as Therapy: Grief and Transformational Film (Routledge, 2015) with Joanna Dovalis
Projects
British Silent Cinema and the Transition to Sound
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Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson
PI: Professor John Izod
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Outputs (33)
Outputs
Article
Izod J & Mausli T (2021) Recovering the past: the national archives of Zimbabwe and the Central African Film Unit (1948 to 1963). Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, 41 (2), pp. 427-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2021.1921433
Article
When Squawkies Became Talkies: The Musicians' Union, Mechanical Music and British Cinemas, 1927-33
Izod J (2020) When Squawkies Became Talkies: The Musicians' Union, Mechanical Music and British Cinemas, 1927-33. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 17 (2), pp. 191-211. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2020.0519
Article
Arthur Dulay and John Grierson: fitting Drifters (1929)
Izod J (2019) Arthur Dulay and John Grierson: fitting Drifters (1929). Visual Culture in Britain, 20 (3: From Silent to Sound: Cinema in Scotland in the 1930s), pp. 261-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2019.1686416
Article
Empowering Cinema Operators in the USA and UK, 1927-1933
Izod J (2018) Empowering Cinema Operators in the USA and UK, 1927-1933. Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 12 (2), pp. 217-240. https://doi.org/10.3828/msmi.2018.12
Book Chapter
Under the Skin (2013): Images as the Language of the Unconscious
Dovalis J & Izod J (2018) Under the Skin (2013): Images as the Language of the Unconscious. In: Hockley L (ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies. Routledge International Handbooks. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 336-352. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Jungian-Film-Studies/Hockley/p/book/9781138666962
Conference Paper (unpublished)
The Partial Empowering of British Cinema Operators, 1927-33
Izod J (2017) The Partial Empowering of British Cinema Operators, 1927-33. British Silent Film Festival Symposium, Strand, London, 06.04.2017-07.04.2017. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/filmstudies/eventrecords/16-17/British-silent-film-festival-symposium-2017.aspx
Article
Alan Izod and the Central African Film Unit 1948–1963
Izod J (2016) Alan Izod and the Central African Film Unit 1948–1963. Heritage of Zimbabwe, (35), pp. 119-128.
Book Review
Izod J (2016) Katherine Spring, Saying it with Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema and Michael Slowik, After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934. Review of: Saying it with Songs: popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema by Katherine Spring (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 229 pages). ISBN 978-0199842223; and After the Silents: Hollywood film music in the early sound era, 1926-1934 by Michael Slowik (New York, NY: Columbia UP, 2014, 384 pages). ISBN 9780231165822. Screen, 57 (3), pp. 379-383. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjw035
Book Chapter
Izod J (2016) Theatre, Film and Television: Lindsay Anderson directs David Storey’s In Celebration (1969) and Home (1970). In: Hedling E & Dupin C C (eds.) Lindsay Anderson Revisited: Unknown Aspects of a Film Director. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 157-172. http://www.palgrave.com/fr/book/9781137539427; https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53943-4_12
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Musicians’ Union Campaigns in the Late 1920s
Izod J (2016) Musicians’ Union Campaigns in the Late 1920s. Working in Music: The Musicians’ Union, musical labour and employment, Glasgow, 14.01.2016-15.01.2016. http://www.muhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/Working-in-Music-programme.pdf
Conference Paper (unpublished)
British Cinema Exhibitors and Musicians, 1927-33
Izod J (2015) British Cinema Exhibitors and Musicians, 1927-33. What is Cinema History?, University of Glasgow, 22.06.2015-24.06.2015. http://earlycinema.gla.ac.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/What-is-Cinema-History-Programme-Final.pdf
Book Review
Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask
Izod J (2015) Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask. Review of:
by Harriet J. Manning, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013, 204 pp. ISBN 9780419455103. International Journal of Jungian Studies, 7 (1), pp. 74-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/19409052.2015.979057
Authored Book
Cinema as Therapy: Grief and Transformational Film
Izod J & Dovalis J (2015) Cinema as Therapy: Grief and Transformational Film. Hove, UK and New York City2015: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415718684/
Article
Ogni Pensiero Vola: the embodied psyche in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life
Izod J & Dovalis J (2014) Ogni Pensiero Vola: the embodied psyche in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. International Journal of Jungian Studies, 6 (2), pp. 151-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/19409052.2014.906484
Book Chapter
Izod J & Dovalis J (2014) Terrence Malick’s Diptych. In: Piotrowska A (ed.) Embodied Encounters: New Approaches to Psychoanalysis and Cinema. London: Routledge, pp. 60-74. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781315758541/
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Izod J (2014) Theatre, Film and Television: Lindsay Anderson directs David Storey’s In Celebration (1969) and Home (1970). Lindsay Anderson Revisited, Lund, Sweden, 15.08.2014-16.08.2014.
Article
Lindsay Anderson and the Legacy of Free Cinema
Izod J & Magee K (2014) Lindsay Anderson and the Legacy of Free Cinema. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 11 (2-3), pp. 351-369. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2014.0220
Presentation / Talk
Ogni Pensiero Vola: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
Izod J & Dovalis J (2013) Ogni Pensiero Vola: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. Embodied Encounters: New Approaches to Psychoanalysis and Film, The Freud Museum, London, 14.10.2013-14.10.2013.
Article
Nachtmeerfahrten (Night Sea Journeys) (Film Review)
Izod J (2013) Nachtmeerfahrten (Night Sea Journeys) (Film Review) [Night Sea Journeys]. International Journal of Jungian Studies, 5 (3), pp. 274-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/19409052.2013.822691
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Lindsay Anderson, Film, Theatre and In Celebration (Keynote Speech)
Izod J & Magee K (2013) Lindsay Anderson, Film, Theatre and In Celebration (Keynote Speech). 20th Annual Scottish Word and Image Group Conference, University of Dundee, 22.06.2013-23.06.2013. http://www.scottishwordimage.org/conferences/2013programme.html
Authored Book
Lindsay Anderson: Cinema Authorship
Izod J, Magee K, Hannan K & Gourdin-Sangouard I (2012) Lindsay Anderson: Cinema Authorship. Manchester: Manchester University Press. http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719083389
Article
Physician, Heal Thyself: The Son's Room
Izod J & Dovalis J (2012) Physician, Heal Thyself: The Son's Room. Kinema, 37, pp. 5-20. http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/article.php?id=510&feature
Book Chapter
'Birth: Eternal Grieving of the Spotless Mind'
Izod J & Dovalis J (2011) 'Birth: Eternal Grieving of the Spotless Mind'. In: Hauke C & Hockley L (eds.) Jung & Film II: The Return. Hove, East Sussex: Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp. 66-91. http://www.jungarena.com/jung-and-film-ii-the-return-9780415488976
Book Chapter
Izod J (2011) The physician's melancholia. In: Hockley L & Gardner L (eds.) House: The Wounded Healer on Television: Jungian and Post-Jungian Reflections. Hove, East Sussex: Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp. 27-42. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415479134/
Book Chapter
Music / Industry / Politics: Alan Price's Roles in O Lucky Man!
Izod J, Magee K, MacKenzie K & Gourdin-Sangouard I (2010) Music / Industry / Politics: Alan Price's Roles in O Lucky Man!. In: Forster L & Harper S (eds.) British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 201-212. http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/British-Culture-and-Society-in-the-1970-s--The-Lost-Decade1-4438-1734-1.htm
Book Chapter
'"What is there to smile at?" Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man!'
Izod J, Magee K, MacKenzie K & Gourdin-Sangouard I (2010) '"What is there to smile at?" Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man!'. In: Newland P (ed.) Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s. Chicago: Intellect, pp. 215-228. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4699/
Article
Grieving, Therapy, Cinema and Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs: Rouge
Izod J & Dovalis J (2008) Grieving, Therapy, Cinema and Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs: Rouge. Jung Journal, 2 (4), pp. 70-94. https://doi.org/10.1525/jung.2008.2.4.70
Article
Grieving, Therapy, Cinema and Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs:Blanc
Dovalis J & Izod J (2008) Grieving, Therapy, Cinema and Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs:Blanc. Jung Journal, 2 (3), pp. 39-57. https://doi.org/10.1525/jung.2008.2.3.39
Article
Grieving, Therapy, Cinema and Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs: Bleu
Izod J & Dovalis J (2006) Grieving, Therapy, Cinema and Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs: Bleu. The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 25 (3), pp. 49-73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jung.1.2006.25.3.49; https://doi.org/10.1525/jung.1.2006.25.3.49
Edited Book
From Grierson to the Docu-soap: Breaking the boundaries
Izod J & Kilborn R (eds.) (2000) From Grierson to the Docu-soap: Breaking the boundaries. Luton: University of Luton Press.
Book Chapter
Redefining cinema: Other Genres - the documentary film
Izod J & Kilborn R (1998) Redefining cinema: Other Genres - the documentary film. In: Hill J & Church GP (eds.) The Oxford Guide to Film Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 426-434. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198711247.do
Authored Book
An Introduction to Television documentary: confronting reality
Kilborn R & Izod J (1997) An Introduction to Television documentary: confronting reality. Manchester: Manchester University Press.