Rod Stoneman is Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. Before coming to NUI Galway, he was Chief Executive of Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board and previously a Deputy Commissioning Editor in the Independent Film and Video Department at Channel 4 Television.

1. Books Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Wallflower Press, November 2008). Scottish Cinema Now, co-edited with Jonathan Murray and Fidelma Farley, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). The Quiet Man ... and Beyond, co-edited with Seán Crosson, (Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2009). Including ‘The Quiet Man: Myth, Commodity and Fetish'

2. Recent Articles ‘Recycled Electrons: Film and the Digital'; Kinema, Fall 2001. ‘All Generalisations are False'; Film Ireland, November/December 2002; Kinema, Fall 2002. ‘Five Easy Pieces'; Film Ireland, March/April 2004; Kinema, Spring 2004; ScriptWriter, November 2004. 'The Sins of Commission II' Screen v46 n2, Summer 2005. ‘Soft and Hard: Indications Intimations Implications' Jean-Luc Godard Documents Ed. Witt, 2006; ‘Soft and Hard: Intimations Insinuations Implications' Film Ireland, May/June 2006; Kinema, Fall 2006. ‘War of the Flea,' Re-imagining Ireland, Ed. Andrew Higgins Wyndham, University of Virginia Press, 2006 ‘Alexander Kluge: Utopian Cinema', Processes of Transposition - German Literature into Film, ed. Christiane Schonfeld (Amsterdam / New York: Rodolpi, 2007). ‘Ireland/Cinema and Reality/Illusion' The Irish Knot: Essays on Imaginary/Real Ireland, ed. María José Carrera, Anunciación Carrera (Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 2008). ‘Chance and Change', Film and Risk, ed. Mette Hjort, (Forthcoming: Wayne State University Press, 2010).

3. Recent Films A Tourist Excursion to the Burren (2006, 30 mins), screened at the Burren Spring Conference, Feb 2006, Dublin Film Festival February 2008. -Nolens Volens- (Whether Willing or Unwilling)' (2006, 50 mins), screened at festivals in Sao Paolo, Brazil; Aardhus, Denmark; Cork, Ireland. Available on the internet via Google video. 12,000 Years of Blindness (2007, 51 mins), screened at the Cork Film Festival October 2007, Dublin Film Festival February 2008. The Spindle: How Life Works, 17 mins, 2009.

Visual culture, Film and politics, Jean-Luc Godard, The avant garde, Early cinema