School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

I joined Portsmouth in 2004 and am a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies. My research interests include African American cinema and culture, film music and theory. My PhD thesis considered the political and cultural implications of music used by the director Spike Lee, with close analysis of both orchestral scores and popular music. My current research is concerned with the representation of Hurricane Katrina across various forms of media. I am one of the co-founding editors of the peer-reviewed Intellect journal Transnational Cinemas.

I am also the Third Year Tutor within SCAFM and co-ordinate the Film Studies dissertations and 3rd year units 'Contemporary European Directors' and ‘Black American Cinema.’ I am responsible for the 2nd year core module 'Third and Transnational Cinema.’

Current Research

Books^{[Back to top]}

I am currently preparing a proposal for a single authored monograph on Hurricane Katrina and the media.

Doughty, R. (Forthcoming). The Buppie and Authentic Blackness. In Ba, S. M. & Lindvall, D. Lives and Deaths of the Yuppie.

Doughty, R. (Forthcoming). hooks, bell (b.1942) In The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism.

Doughty, R. & Etherington-Wright, C. (Forthcoming). Introduction to Film Theory: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Publications

Co-Edited Books^{[Back to top]}

Harper, G., Doughty, R. & Eisentraut, J. (Eds.) (2008). Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media. New York: Continuum. ISBN 978-0826458247.

Doughty, R. & Shaw, D. (Eds). (2008). Film: the essential study guide. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415437004.

Articles^{[Back to top]}

Doughty, R. [Co-founding editor]. Transnational Cinemas (ISSN 2040-3526).

Doughty, R. (In preparation). Malcolm X (dir. Spike Lee, 1994). In Directory of World Cinema. Bristol: Intellect.

Doughty, R. (2007). Manderlay: Lars von Trier's narrative of passing. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 5(2), 153-161.

Doughty, R., & Griffiths, K. (2006). Racial reflection: La Haine and the art of borrowing. Studies in European Cinema, 3(2), 117-127.

Book Chapters^{[Back to top]}

Doughty, R. (2008). Scoring Blackness. In Harper, G., Doughty, R. & Eisentraut, J. (Eds.) (2008), Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media (pp. 325-339). New York : Continuum.

Book Reviews^{[Back to top]}

Doughty, R. (2006, June). Comparative Review of Johnson, P.E., Appropriating blackness: performance and the politics of authenticity and Knight, A., Disintegrating the musical: black performance and American musical film. Scope: Online Journal of Film and TV Studies, 5. http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/bookreview.php?issue=5&id=136

Member of Editorial Board^{[Back to top]}

Founding editor (with Dr Deborah Shaw and Armida de la Garza) of Transnational Cinemas journal (ISSN 2040-3526).

Speaker Invitations^{[Back to top]}

Guest Speaker: A series of talks on the Films of Oscar Micheaux and African American Film Production and an introduction to the film Within Our Gates (1919). Cambridge Film Consortium in association with Anglia Ruskin University (23-24th Oct 2008)

Bohemian Bricolage: Appropriating the Operatic in Buz Luhrmann’s ‘Moulin Rouge.’ Song, Stage and Screen Conference. Portsmouth University (2006).