School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

I joined Portsmouth in 2004 and am Senior Lecturer in Film. My specific research interests include Black American Cinema, Transnational Filmmaking, Film Music and contemporary European directors. My thesis considered the political and cultural implications of the music used by Spike Lee with close musical analysis of both orchestral scores and popular music. I now have a new role as one of the four co-founding editors of the peer-reviewed journal Transnational Cinemas published by Intellect.

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]}

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

Articles^{[Back to top]}

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

Doughty, R. (In preparation). An article looking at the theme of British postcolonial guilt in recent African narratives, focusing on The Last King of Scotland (dir. Kevin Macdonald, 2006) and The Constant Gardner (dir. Fernando Meirelles, 2005). Submission planned to Journal of British Cinema and Television.

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.

Journal Articles^{[Back to top]}

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

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).