Dr Kingsley Marshall
Head of Film & Television
Dr Kingsley Marshall is Head of Film & Television at the CILECT accredited School of Film & Television, based within Falmouth University, UK. The subject area consists of 25 staff working with over 500 undergraduates, supplemented by a postgraduate community studying from MA level through to PhD. He is currently external examiner at the University of the West of England.
As a film practitioner, Kingsley focuses on the relationship between sound design and music composition for film, and the production of short and micro-budget feature films. He was executive producer on the feature "Wilderness" (Director: Justin John Doherty, 2017), written by Neil Fox, and developed and produced "Backwoods" (Director: Ryan Mackfall, 2019) with Neil in 2018, which premiered in Portland, Oregon in October 2019 and London Short Film Festival in 2020. Working again with Neil, he is currently developing Ryan's next short film "The Birdwatcher". As composer, Kingsley worked with director Mark Jenkin ("Bait", 2019), writing the score for "Hard, Cracked the Wind" (2019), which premiered at Encounters Film Festival in September 2019 and has since played Cork Film Festival, Leeds Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival and is next scheduled to screen at Dublin International Film Festival 4 March 2020.
Kingsley's academic research focuses on cultures of film and television production, and the representation of real events - specifically asymmetrical conflict, the US presidency, and the ethics of artificial intelligence development as part of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’. He has published widely, and speaks regularly at international conferences, including events at Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, New York University, the University of Pavia and as an invited speaker at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.
Published works include: Presidents In The Movies: American History and Politics on Screen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Watergate Remembered (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews (University of Mississippi Press, 2014), Brian Eno: Oblique Music, (Bloomsbury, 2016), the Journal of Visual Arts Practice (2016), the Musicology Research Journal (2017) and Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). In 2018, Kingsley conducted a series of interviews with members of the team behind HBO's Westworld, including Co-Creator Jonathan Nolan, Producer Stephen Semel and Supervising Music Editor Christopher Kaller for an edited collection, Reading Westworld (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Current research includes an examination of the rhizomic storytelling of Twin Peaks: The Return for a collection due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020, a study on the representation of asymmetrical conflict for the Handbook on Violence in Film and Media (Palgrave, 2020), an examination of the film composer/director working relationship for A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis (Lexington Books, 2020) and a piece that explores the ethics of artificial intelligence/machine learning development for an edited collection on Black Mirror (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Prior to joining Falmouth University, Kingsley served as a critic 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 and MTV, in Little White Lies, anthologies on hip hop and soul, and countless sleeve notes and biographies.
As a film practitioner, Kingsley focuses on the relationship between sound design and music composition for film, and the production of short and micro-budget feature films. He was executive producer on the feature "Wilderness" (Director: Justin John Doherty, 2017), written by Neil Fox, and developed and produced "Backwoods" (Director: Ryan Mackfall, 2019) with Neil in 2018, which premiered in Portland, Oregon in October 2019 and London Short Film Festival in 2020. Working again with Neil, he is currently developing Ryan's next short film "The Birdwatcher". As composer, Kingsley worked with director Mark Jenkin ("Bait", 2019), writing the score for "Hard, Cracked the Wind" (2019), which premiered at Encounters Film Festival in September 2019 and has since played Cork Film Festival, Leeds Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival and is next scheduled to screen at Dublin International Film Festival 4 March 2020.
Kingsley's academic research focuses on cultures of film and television production, and the representation of real events - specifically asymmetrical conflict, the US presidency, and the ethics of artificial intelligence development as part of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’. He has published widely, and speaks regularly at international conferences, including events at Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, New York University, the University of Pavia and as an invited speaker at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.
Published works include: Presidents In The Movies: American History and Politics on Screen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Watergate Remembered (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews (University of Mississippi Press, 2014), Brian Eno: Oblique Music, (Bloomsbury, 2016), the Journal of Visual Arts Practice (2016), the Musicology Research Journal (2017) and Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). In 2018, Kingsley conducted a series of interviews with members of the team behind HBO's Westworld, including Co-Creator Jonathan Nolan, Producer Stephen Semel and Supervising Music Editor Christopher Kaller for an edited collection, Reading Westworld (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Current research includes an examination of the rhizomic storytelling of Twin Peaks: The Return for a collection due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020, a study on the representation of asymmetrical conflict for the Handbook on Violence in Film and Media (Palgrave, 2020), an examination of the film composer/director working relationship for A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis (Lexington Books, 2020) and a piece that explores the ethics of artificial intelligence/machine learning development for an edited collection on Black Mirror (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Prior to joining Falmouth University, Kingsley served as a critic 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 and MTV, in Little White Lies, anthologies on hip hop and soul, and countless sleeve notes and biographies.
| kingsley.marshall@falmouth.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | 01326 254176 (ext 4176) |
Research Outputs
Publications and research outputs
Article
| Loydell, Rupert and Marshall, Kingsley (2017) Sound Mirrors: Brian Eno & Touchscreen Generative Music. Musicology Research, Music on Screen: From Cinema Screens to Touchscreens (Volume 3, Autumn 2017). pp. 27-50. ISSN 2515-981X | |
| Loydell, Rupert and Marshall, Kingsley (2016) Thinking Inside the Box: Brian Eno, music, movement and light. Journal of Visual Art Practice, 16 (2). ISSN 1470-2029 (Print), 1758-9185 (Online) | |
| Marshall, Kingsley, Shear, Tim and Truran, Chris (2009) AltDiss: Creativity, Reflection and TV Production Practice. Media Education Research Journal, 1 (1). pp. 79-84. ISSN 2040-4530 Item not available from this repository. |
Book Section
| Loydell, Rupert and Marshall, Kingsley (2020) Sound Design, Music and The Birth of Evil in Twin Peaks: The Return. In: Listen to the Sounds: Music and Sound Design in Twin Peaks (Co-edited Reba Wissner, Katherine Reed). Routledge, London. ISBN not yet known (Submitted) Item availability may be restricted. | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/text.png) |
| Marshall, Kingsley (2019) The Gulf War Aesthetic? Cinema’s representation of asymmetrical warfare. In: The Handbook for Violence in Film & Media. London:. The Palgrave Handbook . Palgrave Macmillan., London. ISBN TBC (Submitted) Item availability may be restricted. | |
| Marshall, Kingsley (2019) You Were Never really Here: Representations of Artificial intelligence in Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. In: Black Mirror. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN TBC (In Press) Item availability may be restricted. | |
| Loydell, Rupert and Marshall, Kingsley (2019) 'Listen to the Sounds': Sound and Storytelling in Twin Peaks: The Return. In: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks: The Return. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 269-280. ISBN 9783030047979 Item availability may be restricted. | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/2888/3/CriticalEssaysonTwinPeaks.jpg) |
| Marshall, Kingsley and Loydell, Rupert (2019) ‘Listen to the Sounds’: Sound and Storytelling in Twin Peaks: The Return. In: Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 269-280. ISBN 978-3-03-004797-9 Item availability may be restricted. | |
| Marshall, Kingsley (2018) Music as a source of narrative information in HBO's Westworld. In: Reading Westworld. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 97-118. ISBN 978-3-030-14514-9 (In Press) Item availability may be restricted. | |
| Loydell, Rupert and Marshall, Kingsley (2016) Control & Surrender: Eno Remixed: Collaboration and Oblique Strategies. In: Brian Eno: Oblique Music. Bloomsbury Academic, London. ISBN 9781441117458 | |
| Marshall, Kingsley and Loydell, Rupert (2016) Eno Remixed: Collaboration & Oblique Strategies. In: Brian Eno: Oblique Music. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 978-1441155344 Item availability may be restricted. | |
| Marshall, Kingsley (2013) The Hurt Locker: Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal. In: Kathryn Bigelow: Conversations. University of Mississippi Press, Mississippi, USA. ISBN 978-1617037740 Item not available from this repository. |
| Marshall, Kingsley (2012) The Cinematic Watergate: From All the President's Men to Frost/Nixon. In: Watergate Remembered. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 978-0230116504 Item not available from this repository. |
| Marshall, Kingsley (2011) Oliver Stone's Improbable W. In: Presidents in the Movies: American History and Politics on Screen. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 978-0230113282 Item not available from this repository. |
Conference or Workshop Item
| Fox, Neil, Annesley, Angela and Marshall, Kingsley (2019) Making Strange: Adapting H. P. Lovecraft for the Screen. In: Folk Horror In The 21st Century, 4-6 September, 2019, Falmouth University. | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/slideshow.png) |
| Marshall, Kingsley (2019) The Gulf War Aesthetic? Sound design, and the representation of asymmetrical warfare. In: Music and Sound Design for the Screen, 6-7 September 2019, Maynooth University. |
| Loydell, Rupert and Marshall, Kingsley (2018) ‘Listen to the Sounds': Sound and Storytelling in Twin Peaks: The Return. In: Mapping Spaces, Sounding Places: Geographies of Sound in Audiovisual Media, 19-22 March 2019, Cremona, Italy. (Unpublished) | |
| Marshall, Kingsley (2018) These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends: Representing Artificial Intelligence in HBO’s Westworld. In: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, 19 April 2019, Marriot Wardman Park, Washington DC. (In Press) | |
| Loydell, Rupert and Marshall, Kingsley (2018) Sound Design, Music and the Birth of Evil in Twin Peaks: The Return. In: Music and the Moving Image, 24-27 May 2018, NYU Steinhardt, New York. (Unpublished) | |
| Marshall, Kingsley and Loydell, Rupert (2018) Sound Design, Music and The Birth of Evil in Twin Peaks: The Return. In: Music & The Moving Image, 27 May 2018, NYU, New York. | |
| Marshall, Kingsley (2018) Sound and Music Use in Twin Peaks: The Return. In: Sound and Storytelling, Dodge College, Chapman University, Los Angeles, USA. | |
| Loydell, Rupert and Marshall, Kingsley (2014) Thinking Outside the Box: Brian Eno, music, movement and light. In: Music and Moving Image, Steinhardt, New York University. Item not available from this repository. |
| Loydell, Rupert and Marshall, Kingsley (2014) Control & Surrender: Eno Remixed: Collaboration and Oblique Strategies. In: Modular Forms, Roehampton University. Item not available from this repository. |
| Marshall, Kingsley (2013) Stone/Dubya: The Improbable President. In: The Films of Oliver Stone Conference, November 2013, Rider University, Princeton, New Jersey. (Unpublished) |
Composition
| Marshall, Kingsley (2019) Original Film Soundtrack to Hard, Cracked the Wind (Director, Mark Jenkin, 2019). [Composition] |
Media
| Marshall, Kingsley and Fox, Neil (2019) Backwoods (Dir. Ryan Mackfall, 2019) - Short Film. [Media] Item availability may be restricted. | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/video.png) |
| Fox, Neil (2017) 'Wilderness'. [Media] |
Other
| Fox, Neil, Llinares, Dario and Marshall, Kingsley (2015) The Cinematologists. UNSPECIFIED. Item availability may be restricted. | |