Dr. Conn Holohan
Department:
Huston School of Film & Digital Media
Phone:
353 (0)91 495686
Office location:
Block Q, Earls Island
Biography:
Dr. Conn Holohan is Assistant Director of Research and Development at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. He teaches on a number of postgraduate programmes offered by the Huston School.
Publications/Lectures/Conferences:
Books
Cinema on the Periphery: Contemporary Irish and Spanish Cinema (Dublin and Oregon: Irish Academic Press, 2010)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
‘Deleuze and the Image of Film Theory’ in Benoît Dillet, Iain MacKenzie & Robert Porter (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism, Edinburgh University Press (2012, forthcoming)
‘Disturbing types: gender stereotypes and the short film’ Short Film Studies 1.2 (2011)
‘Dreams of Home: Migrant Spaces and Narrative Desire in Felicia’s Journey’, Irish Studies Review, 19,1 (2011)
‘‘Wrong Turns: radical spaces in the road movies of Tony Gatlif’, Transnational Cinemas, 1.3 (2011).
‘Aesthetics of Intimacy in the Short Film’ Short Film Studies, 1.1 (2010)
Research interests:
Dr Holohan’s research interests include cinematic space, Irish and Spanish Cinema, migrant cinema, onscreen sexuality and short films. His current research explores utopian spaces in film, focusing particularly on the melodrama and road movies.