Dr Paul Newland
Liverpool Screen School
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: P.Newland@ljmu.ac.uk
ORCID
Paul joined LJMU as Professor in September 2024.
Paul's research specialisms span the arts. His main research interests cover film, architecture, literature, and music.
Paul is the author of the books The Cultural Construction of London’s East End (2008) and British Films of the 1970s (2013), and editor of Don’t Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s (2011), British Rural Landscapes on Film (2016), British Art Cinema (with Brian Hoyle, 2019), and Cinematic Starchitecture (with Merrill Schleier, 2025).
2002-2005: PhD University of Exeter, PhD.
2001-2002: MA University of Exeter, MA English Studies (Distinction)
1998-2001: BA University of Exeter, BA (Hons) English (First Class)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
Paul composes, records and releases music as 'Clevelode'. The album 'Muntjac' was released by Fenny Compton in July 2024: a 'mix of songform and questing experimentation': Derek Walmsley (The Wire, July 2024).
Degrees
2005, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, PhD
2002, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, MA English
2001, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, BA (Hons) English
Certifications
Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom, Fellow of Higher Education Academy
Academic appointments
Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange, University of Worcester, 2020 - 2024
REF Manager, Bath Spa University, 2018 - 2020
Reader in Film, Aberystwyth University, 2008 - 2018
Journal article
Newland P. 2024. The Participants Academic guiding text Academic Quarter, 28 :75-81 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Newland P. 2023. The architecture of film sound: the construction of sonic space in Michelangelo Antonioni?s The Passenger Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 17 DOI Publisher Url
Newland P. 2023. The Architecture of Film Sound The Construction of Sonic Space in Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger MUSIC SOUND AND THE MOVING IMAGE, 17 :23-42 DOI Publisher Url
Newland P. 2020. Park Avenue & East 53rd Street International Journal of Creative Media Research, 6 DOI Publisher Url
Newland P. 2016. The Spatial Politics of the Voice in Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Ruins (2010) The New Soundtrack, 6 :129-142 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Newland P. 2015. We come, our country’s rights to save: English rural landscape and leftist aesthetics in Comrades Visual Culture in Britain, 16 :331-347 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Newland P. "I didn’t think I’d be working on this type of film": Berberian Sound Studio and British Art Film as Alternative Film History Journal of British Cinema and Television, 13 :262-277 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Newland P, Hoyle B. Introduction: Post-millennial British Art Cinema Journal of British Cinema and Television, 13 :233-242 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Composition
Newland P. 2024. Muntjac, by Clevelode Publisher Url
Chapters
Newland P. 2023. 6 My ancestors died here Folk horror on film :104-116 Manchester University Press DOI
Newland P. 2023. What wind in what trees? Listening to Blow-Up (1966) Donnelly KJ, Mollaghan A. Haunted Soundtracks: Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound Bloomsbury Publishing. London 9781501389566 Publisher Url Public Url
Newland P. 2023. My Ancestors Died Here: Requiem for a Village and the horror of modernity and socio-cultural change in rural England Donnelly KJ, Bayman L. Folk horror on film: Return of the British repressed Manchester University Press. Manchester DOI Publisher Url
Newland P. 2023. On location in 1970s London: an interview with Gavrik Losey Wagner KB, Lack R-FCC. Global London on screen : Visitors, cosmopolitans and migratory cinematic visions of a superdiverse city :61-73 Manchester University Press. Manchester Publisher Url
Newland P, Hoyle B. 2019. Introduction – British art cinema British art cinema :1-21 Manchester University Press DOI
Newland P, Hoyle B. 2019. Introduction: British art cinema: creativity, experimentation and innovation Newland P, Hoyle B. British Art Cinema: creativity, experimentation and innovation :12-44 Manchester University Press. Manchester DOI Publisher Url
Newland P. 2019. The reputation of Nicolas Roeg Newland P, Hoyle B. British Art Cinema: creativity, experimentation and innovation :128-143 Manchester University Press. Manchester Publisher Url
Newland P. 2019. Space, Place and Architecture in British Films: The Case of Last Resort (2000) Hill J. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema :372-385 John Wiley & Sons. Hoboken, NJ DOI Publisher Url
Newland P, Hoyle B. 2019. Introduction - British art cinema: creativity, experimentation and innovation BRITISH ART CINEMA :1-21 978-1-5261-0087-0
Newland P. 2017. Shaun of the Dead and the Construction of Cult Space in Millennial London Hirsch P, O’Rourke C. London on Film: The City and Social Change :193-203 Palgrave Macmillan. Cham, Switzerland DOI Publisher Url
Newland P. 2017. Shaun of the Dead and the Construction of Cult Space in Millennial London LONDON ON FILM :193-203 978-3-319-64978-8 DOI
Newland P. 2016. 12 Film and the repossession of rural space British rural landscapes on film :190-198 Manchester University Press DOI
Newland P. 2016. 10 Folk horror and the contemporary cult of British rural landscape British rural landscapes on film :162-179 Manchester University Press DOI
Newland P. 2016. Film and the repossession of rural space Newland P. British Rural Landscapes on Film :190-198 Manchester University Press. Manchester 978-0-7190-9157-5 DOI Publisher Url
Newland P. 2016. Folk horror and the contemporary cult of British rural landscape: the case of Blood on Satan’s Claw Newland P. British Rural Landscapes on Film :162-179 Manchester University Press. Manchester DOI Publisher Url
Newland P. 2016. Introduction: approaching British rural landscapes on film Newland P. British Rural Landscapes on Film :1-23 Manchester University Press. Manchester 978-0-7190-9157-5 DOI Publisher Url
Newland P. 2016. sleep furiously: interview with Gideon Koppel Newland P. British Rural Landscapes on Film :180-189 Manchester University Press. Manchester 978-0-7190-9157-5 DOI Publisher Url
Newland P. 2016. sleep furiously: interview with Gideon Koppel BRITISH RURAL LANDSCAPES ON FILM :180-189 978-0-7190-9157-5
Book review
Newland P. 2023. Book Review: Amelia Watts and Phil Wickham (eds), Bill Douglas: A Film Artist Journal of British Cinema and Television, 20 :527-530 DOI Publisher Url
Other
Newland P. 2022. Suburban London in 1970s British Television Comedies Publisher Url
Newland P. 2022. The life of the Good Life House: the spatial legacies of "site" in a suburban London situation comedy Publisher Url
Newland P. 2022. Homesteading in the Anthropocene: future visions of rural landscapes and home in Interstellar and US sci-fi films of the 2010s Publisher Url
Newland P. 2022. Modern magnificence: memories of British cinema architecture of the late 1920s and 1930s Publisher Url
Newland P. 2011. Blended, Deep and Active Learning Publisher Url
Newland P. 2011. Information Technology and the Muddiest Point - Using Podcasts for Active Learning Publisher Url
Newland P. 2011. Reframing Assessment Publisher Url
Conference publication
Cussans J, Newland P, Golz P, Evans S, Taylor S. 2022. Arts for Health symposium The Arts for Health Symposium, Publisher Url
Film
Newland P. 2021. Park Avenue & East 53rd Street Publisher Url
Books (authored)
Newland P. 2019. British Art Cinema: Creativity, Experimentation and Innovation Newland P, Hoyle B. Manchester University Press. Manchester 978-1-5261-0087-0 Publisher Url
Newland P. 2016. British Rural Landscapes on Film Newland P. Manchester University Press. Manchester 978-0-7190-9157-5 Publisher Url
Newland P. 2015. British films of the 1970s Manchester University Press 9781526102300
Newland P. 2008. The Cultural Construction of London's East End Urban Iconography, Modernity and the Spatialisation of Englishness Rodopi 9789042024540