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Jonathan Murray

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Edinburgh College of Art

Education

  • MA and PhD in Film & Television Studies and Scottish History, University of Glasgow.

Professional Experience / Research

  • Personal Chair of Film Theory, History and Criticism, Edinburgh College of Art.

  • Research focus: contemporary Scottish and British cinema and popular culture.

  • Editor: Scottish Cinema Now (2009), Drawn from Life: Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema (2018).

  • Author: Discomfort and Joy: The Cinema of Bill Forsyth (2011), The New Scottish Cinema (2015).

  • Co-editor: Animation Journal, Visual Culture in Britain.

  • Current co-Principal Editor: Journal of British Cinema and Television (EUP).

  • Contributing Writer for Cineaste magazine.

  • Collaborates with film festivals: Edinburgh IFF, Thessaloniki IFF, Varna World Festival of Animated Film.

Teaching

  • Focus on moving image history and theory; leads undergraduate short courses including Contemporary Cinema.