Professor Peter William Evans

Profile

My published work has been mainly on Spanish cinema (especially Buñuel and Almodóvar), Hollywood (especially the Musical, Romantic Comedy, and the Biblical Epic), and British cinema (especially Carol Reed). My most recent publication is Written on the Wind (BFI, 2013).

I curated the 2006 NFT Carol Reed season, and co-curated with Charles Drazin the 2008 BFI South Bank David Lean season.

Teaching

Current PhD supervision

Lisa Duffy: ‘Fantasy Spaces of Postwar Hollywood Musicals: Explorations of Gender and Sexuality’, co-supervised with Professor Sue Harris

Research

Publications

Some publications:

Spanish Cinema

Bigas Luna: Jamón jamón (Paidós, Barcelona, 2004)
Ed., with Isabel Santaolalla, Luis Buñuel; New Readings (BFI, London, 2004)
Ed., Spanish Cinema; the Auteurist Tradition (OUP, Oxford, 1999)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (BFI, London, 1996)
The Films of Luis Buñuel; Subjectivity and Desire (OUP, Oxford,1995

Hollywood

Written on the Wind (BFI, 2013)
Top Hat (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Ed. With Celestino Deleyto, Terms of Endearment; Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s (EUP, Edinburgh, 1998)
Co-authored with Bruce Babington, Biblical Epics; Sacred Narratives in the Hollywood Cinema (MUP, Manchester, 1993)
Co-authored with Bruce Babington, Affairs to Remember; the Hollywood Coemdy of the Sexes (MUP, Manchester, 1993)
Co-authored with Bruce Babington, Blue Skies and Silver Linings; Aspects of the Hollywood Musical (MUP, Manchester, 1985)

British

Carol Reed (MUP, Manchester, 2005)