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Research
Research interests
- Historical poetics of cinema
- Classical French cinema
- History and sociology of cinephilia
- Cognitive film theory
Current research
Dominic's current research explores storytelling and style in classical French cinema (1930-1960) within a historical poetics framework. Other research interests include cognitive film theory and the history and sociology of cinephilia.
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Supervision
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Teaching
Dominic currently convenes the following modules:
FILM1001: Introduction to Film 1: Style and Analysis
FILM2006: Introduction to Film Studies
FILM6029: Research in Film Studies
Dominic has previously taught modules on Analysing Film; Art and Film; Avant-Garde and Experimental Cinema; Classical Cinema; Cognition and Emotion in Film; Fan Culture: Film, Comics and Games; Film Authorship; Film History: Research Methods; Film Programming; Film Style; Film Theory; History of British Cinema; Hollywood Studio System; Postwar European Cinema; Pulp Film: The Avant-Garde and Popular Cinema; Sound, Music and Cinema; Television Series: Narration, Engagement and Evaluation.
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Biography
Dr Dominic Topp joined the University of Southampton as a Teaching Fellow in Film Studies in 2022. Prior to this, he taught at the University of Kent (Canterbury) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Santiago). He has published articles in Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind and Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual and chapters in the edited collections Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals and Cinema History (2020) and Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences: Desire by Design (2023).
Dominic received his PhD in Film from the University of Kent for a thesis exploring the political modernist cinema of Jean-Luc Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group. He also holds an MA in History of Film and Visual Media from Birkbeck (University of London) and a BA (Hons) in English Studies from Manchester Metropolitan University.
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