Who's who
Kingsley Marshall
Senior Lecturer and Award Leader, Film
Academic interests
Kingsley Marshall has worked as a Senior Lecturer in Film since 2006, teaching across all three levels, and specialising in journalism, sound design and philosophical approaches to film. His academic research primarily orientates around the use of sound (including music and effects) in film, and the cinematic representation of the real, including historical figures and events.
Recent outputs
Kingsley has recently contributed a chapter on George W. Bush to Presidents In The Movies: American History and Politics on Screen, a book which examines the representation of US presidents in film and television, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011 as part of their esteemed Evolving Presidency series.
'The Cinematic Watergate: From All the President's Men to Frost/Nixon', a contribution to a second collection, entitled Remembering Watergate, considers the legacy of the scandal that engulfed the US presidency. Publication is scheduled to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Watergate in January 2012, again on Palgrave Macmillan.
Current projects/forthcoming outputs
A larger research project, entitled The Unification of Film Sound, interrogates the use of sound in film, and considers the relationship between craft and creativity, and the differences in approaches by studio and independently financed feature films. The project is structured around close study informed by a series of interviews conducted with leading film practitioners, including The Hurt Locker's Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and editor Chris Innis. Other interviewees include the composers David Shire, Marvin Hamlisch, Lee Ranaldo, Jon Cameron, Craig Armstrong and Lalo Schifrin, in addition to a number of cinematographers, editors, sound recordists and producers. The first work to be published from this project is due for publication in 2012, as part of Kathryn Bigelow: Conversations, through the University of Mississippi Press.
Industry background/links
Prior to joining University College Falmouth, Kingsley served as a critic for over 15 years and has written about all aspects of popular culture - from film and music through to video games, the internet and literature - for over 30 publications. His writing has featured on the BBC, MTV and Amazon, in anthologies on hip hop and soul, and countless sleeve notes and biographies. He was appointed Editor of ClashClick in 2010, a monthly section on video games and technology published in Clash magazine, and continues to contribute features and reviews in the film and music sections of the magazine. In addition, he is a regular contributor to a number of newspapers, and magazines including Little White Lies, Invert Look, Shook and Big Screen in the UK, Film International and Magnetic overseas and Sabotage Times online.
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