School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

I have taught at the University of Portsmouth since 1996, initially within the School of Art, Design and Media. Since 2006, I have worked largely within the Film department of SCAFM, but I continue to teach on Media units, mainly in areas of applied writing.

All of my activities to date, either in teaching or research, have been led by the need for University life to make contact with worlds outside of the classroom – I feel rather haunted by the double meaning of the word ‘academic’ (meaning either ‘scholarly’ or ‘expendable’). I believe that knowledge should be applied and I also believe that critical ‘thinking’ and ‘doing’ should take place side-by-side. My writing to date has been dominated by my interest in the applied art of film production design. By the same token, I teach skills of journalism and scripting as the means of applying words to particular demands and audiences. Much of my critical work is given to analysing the institutional and economic determinants of media and cultural production.

Current Research

Book Chapters^{[Back to top]}

Ede, L.N. (Forthcoming). British film design of the 1970s. In S. Harper & J. Smith (Eds.), British film culture in the 1970s: the boundaries of pleasure (pp. 00-00). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Publications^{[Back to top]}

Publications since 2008 [IR]

Journal Articles^{[Back to top]}

Ede, L.N. (2005). The common touch: art direction at British National in the 1940s. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 2(1), 36-51.

Ede, L.N. (2004). Capital and creativity: some notes on the British film art director of the 1940s. Screen, 45(4), 367-374.

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Ede, L.N. (2007). Art in context. In J. Chapman, M. Glancy & S. Harper (Eds.), The new film history (pp. 113-125). London: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Ede, L.N. (2000). High reason: the Boultings meet the ghost of Matthew Arnold. In A. Burton, T. O’Sullivan & P. Wells (Eds.), The family way: the Boulting brothers and post-war British film culture (pp. 35-48). Trowbridge: Flicks Books.

Ede, L.N. (1998). Michael Relph as art director. In A. Burton, T. O’Sullivan & P. Wells (Eds.), Liberal directions: Basil Dearden and post-war British film culture (pp.249-260). Trowbridge: Flicks Books.

Encyclopaedia Entries^{[Back to top]}

Ede, L.N. (2004). Carmen Dillon. In B. Harrison (Ed.), New Oxford dictionary of national biography (pp. 123-125). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews^{[Back to top]}

Ede, L.N. (2007). Review of P. Wymer, Derek Jarman. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 4(1), 193-195.

Ede, L.N. (2006). Review of D. Altman, Gore Vidal’s America. Screening the Past, 20.
 
Ede, L.N. (2006) Review of D. Berghahn, Hollywood behind the Wall. Screening the Past, 20.

Ede, L.N. (2005). Review of J. Steemers, Selling television. Screening the Past, 18.
 
Ede, L.N. (2004). Review of S. Gwenllian-Jones & R. Pearson, Cult television. Screening the Past, 17.