Dr Dan North Curriculum Vitae

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1 Dr Dan North Curriculum Vitae Employment The / The University of Exeter Lecturer in Film Research Fellow The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture 09/ / /2004 Recognised Teacher Introduction to Film: BA Level Two Module 09/ /2004 Teaching Assistant Hollywood and Europe: BA Level Two Module 02/ /2002 Teacher and Co-Convenor Weston Education Action Zone (WEAZ) English Studies Masterclasses The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture Curatorial Assistant 10/ /2002 Employment Service Job Centre, Birkenhead Employment Adviser 11/ /1998 Cubbin & North (SAAB) Autos, Liverpool Marketing and Sales Assistant 07/ /1997 Education School/College/University attended From To Qualifications awarded University of Exeter (F/T) 10/ /2003 PhD Film and Visual Culture: Special Effects and the Aesthetics of Filmic Illusion University of Exeter (F/T) 10/ /1999 MA The History of Cinema and Popular Culture Keele University (F/T) 09/ /1996 BA (Combined Hons) English/Latin (2:1)

2 Publications: Magic and Illusion in Early Cinema, pp in Studies in French Cinema; Volume 1 Number 2, 2001 Entries for Special Effects, Harry Potter and Ray Harryhausen in The Encyclopedia of British Film Brian McFarlane & Anthony Slide (eds.) London : Methuen, 2003/2005/2007 Virtual Actors, Spectacle and Special Effects: Kung Fu Meets All That CGI Bullshit in The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded Stacy Gillis (ed.) Wallflower Press, 2005 From Android to Synthespian: The Performance of Artificial Life in Multimedia Histories John Plunkett & James Lyons (eds.) University of Exeter Press, 2006 Forthcoming Publications: Presentations: Performing Illusions: Magic, Special Effects and the Coming of the Virtual Actor Wallflower Press, 2007 Sights Unseen: Unfinished British Films Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007 Introduction and Don Boyd s Gossip (1982) in Sights Unseen: Unfinished British Films Dan North (ed.) Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007 Kill Binks: Why the World Hated its First Virtual Actor in Revising the Force: Critical Engagements with the Star Wars Trilogies Carl Silvio & Tony Vinci (eds.) McFarland, 2007 Don Boyd and Independent Production in 1970s British Cinema Robert Shail (ed.) British Film Institute, 2007 Illusory Bodies in Visual Delights III Simon Popple & Vanessa Toulmin (eds.) 2007 Illusory Bodies Visual Delights III Conference The University of Sheffield 15 th 17 th July 2005 The Computer Knew Kung Fu: Virtual Actors in The Matrix Trilogy

3 The Spectacle and the Spectacular Conference Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College 24 th April 2004 From Android to Synthespian: The Myth of Mechanical Life Multimedia Histories Conference 22 nd July 2003 Exceedingly Amusing, and in No Way Repulsive : Victorian Magic Theatre and Proto-Cinema Screen Practice Before Film Colloquium 20 th September 2002 Attack of the $80 Million Remakes! Flying Saucer Myths in Mars Attacks! and Independence Day Flaming Intellects and Floating Acolytes Conference September 2001 Other Conference Participation: Panel Chair Cherchez la Femme: The Cinematic Femme Fatale, Her History and Transmissions 2 nd -3 rd September 2005 (Inter-)Facing: Theory and Practice Symposium 21 st -22 nd April 2005 Centre for Research into Film Studies, : My Body is My Special Effects Digitalising Jackie Chan March 2005 Watch Us Move! Character Animation in the Films of Winsor McCay May 2003 Aria: An Interview with Don Boyd February 2003 Magic and Illusion in Early Cinema March 2000 Fake Verité in The Blair Witch Project and Dogme95 November 1999 Media: Discussion Panel Chair Get Into Film Day Symposium

4 In Association with the Phoenix Media Centre 9 th February 2005 Co-Ordinator A New Canvas: A History of Computer Animation The Animated Exeter Festival th February 2005 Interview on Magic Theatre and Early Trick Films on Front Row BBC Radio 4, 18 th July 2004 Co-Ordinator Lillian Schwartz: A Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine; Animation Works In collaboration with Gregory Kurcewicz/ Lumen In conjunction with the Animated Exeter Festival th February 2004 Biography of Georges Méliès on Nightwaves BBC Radio 3, 14 th March 2003 Teaching: Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture Recognised Teacher Introduction to Film: BA Level Two Module 2003 Teaching Assistant / Recognised Teacher Hollywood and Europe: BA Level Two Module (SEDA Associate Award Accreditation) Teacher and Co-Convenor Weston Education Action Zone (WEAZ) Widening Participation English Studies Masterclasses Various Schools Dissertation Supervisor Level 3 BA English Studies MA English Studies Introduction to Research Methodology The Bill Douglas Centre November 2003

5 Grants: Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Trust Postgraduate Scholarship AHRB Research Fellowship The Bill Douglas Centre/ The January 2003 December 2004