"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education." Will Rogers, Film Actor (1879 – 1935)

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2025 update: Independent scholar/author/consultant/external examiner.

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TOUR OF DUTY.

Deputy Manager/Teacher in Expressive Arts/Literature, thru Media Theory & Production, to Film Professor.

- UK, South Africa, the John. F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin.

ALUM, i.e.,

• the London Film School
• the Department of Education, the University of Oxford.

2025 MEMBER

• The Oxford (University) Education Society
• International Association for Media Education.
• the Screenwriting Research Network
• Media Literacy Ireland.
• The Aristotelian Society.

THEORY AND PRACTICE

As an SRN member, teaching narrative has been informed by my own creative and reflective practice in writing original scripts short stories and adaptations.

2024 - 2025.Current research and drafitng into the teaching and learning moments of Aristotle, Lenin, and Virginia Woolf.

NOW AVAILABLE

As well as authoring my own books (Hitchcock, Jacobean drama, New Hollywood, new rhetoric, US film and news broadcasting histories) -

• I have also collaboated as project initiator, contributor, and co-editor on the first two Volumes (p. 799) of the 21st Century Book Project for CILECT - Centre international de liaison des écoles de cinéma et de télévision.
• Hence, ‘As well as monitoring and thorough proofreading, Alan has brought his extensive teaching experience (U.K., Europe, and South Africa) to advise upon and help guide the project’s main pedagogic goal - to “advance an on-going commitment by CILECT to encourage and share best practice in film and media education".
• Prof. Dr. Stanislav Semerdjiev, CILECT Executive Director.

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Thanks for the visit. More details and enjoyment to be had via the portfolio link above.

ALAN

• Founding member IAME
• No Musk or Zuckerberg.
• …good folk instead.