Personal Info

E-mail: andrew.klevan(at)st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 281147

Web links: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/about-faculty/faculty-members/film-and-media/klevan-dr-andrew

Academic Background:

BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (University College, University of Oxford, 1991); MA in Film and Television Studies (Department of Film and Television, University of Warwick, 1993); PhD in Film Studies (University of Warwick, 1996); Senior Lecturer in Film Studies (University of Kent, 1996–2007); Fellow and Tutor at St Anne’s College, University Lecturer in Film Studies (2007–present). 

Teaching Interests:

Close study of film style, film criticism and interpretation; aesthetics; film theory and philosophy. I am interested in Doctoral supervision related to any of my areas of research and have supervised successful Doctoral theses on Intricacy and Intimacy in Contemporary US Cinema, The Body in Physical Comedy and The Interiority of the Unknown Woman in Film. I am currently supervising projects on female presence on film, and on coherence as a critical concept. 

Research Interests:

The history and theory of criticism; philosophical criticism, especially the work of Stanley Cavell; film aesthetics; film interpretation; the close analysis of film style, especially the mise-en-scène tradition in Hollywood and French cinema; film performance in the mise-en-scène tradition (especially female performance); how aspects of film style may be articulated in writing; film and pedagogy. 

I am on the editorial board of the newly relaunched MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism. The journal is a joint project between the Univeristies of Warwick, Reading and Oxford. Please contact me if you are interested in contributing an essay to the journal.

Other Information:

Master's Degree in Film Aesthetics

I jointly run Oxford University's one-year Master's Degree in Film Aesthetics. Click on the link for details. Many film activities are centred around St Anne's, and the college particularly welcomes film applicants.

Selected Publications:

Books: 

Andrew Klevan, Barbara Stanwyck (forthcoming, Palgrave, 2013)

Andrew Klevan and Alex Clayton (eds.), The Language and Style of Film Criticism (Routledge, 2011); reviews at: Lhttp://blogs.bu.edu/lightandshadow/2011/07/14/508/ight&Shadow

Andrew Klevan, Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (Wallflower Press/ Columbia University Press, 2005)

Andrew Klevan, Disclosure of the Everyday: Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film Flicks Books (Trowbridge, 2000)

Articles:

Andrew Klevan, 'Vertigo and The Spectator of Criticism' in Kattalin Makkai (ed.), Philosophers on Film (forthcoming, Routledge, 2012)

Andrew Klevan, 'Living Meaning: The Fluency of Film Performance' in Aaron Taylor (ed.), Theorizing Film Acting (forthcoming Routledge, 2012)

Andrew Klevan, 'Expressing the In-Between', LOLA, No. 1, 2011

Andrew Klevan, 'Notes on Stanley Cavell and Philosophical Criticism' in Havi Carel and Greg Tuck (eds.), New Takes in Film-Philosophy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011)

Andrew Klevan, 'Internalising the Musical' in Tom Brown and James Walters (eds.), Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory (British Film Institute, 2010)

Andrew Klevan, 'A Reply to Adrian Martin', Undercurrent, Issue 4, 2008

Stanley Cavell in conversation with Andrew Klevan, ‘What Becomes of Thinking on Film?’ in Rupert Read and Jerry Goodenough (eds), Film as Philosophy (Palgrave, 2005)

Andrew Klevan, ‘Notes on Teaching Film Style’ in Douglas Pye and John Gibbs (eds), Style and Meaning (Manchester University Press, 2005); review

Andrew Klevan, ‘Guessing the Unseen from the Seen: Stanley Cavell and Film Interpretation’ in Russell Goodman (ed.), Contending with Stanley Cavell (OUP, 2005); review

Andrew Klevan, ‘The Purpose of Plot and the Place of Joan Bennett in Fritz Lang’s The Woman in the Window’, Cineaction, 62, 2003 

Andrew Klevan, ‘The Mysterious Disappearance of Style: Some Critical Notes about the Writing on Dead Ringers’ in Michael Grant (ed.), The Films of David Cronenberg (Flicks Books, 2000); review

Andrew Klevan, ‘The Composition of Charisma: The Lines of Sporting Seduction in Ron Shelton’s Tin Cup’, Journal of Film Studies, Vol.1 No.1 March 1999, 51–62

Journal Editor:

Screen Special Issue on Film and Television Aesthetics 2012 with Annette Kuhn (Deadline for articles June 2011)

MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism 2012 with V.F. Perkins Issue 4 (Deadline for articles October 2011)