Barry K. Grant

Department of Film Studies, Dramatic and Visual Arts

Office: TH146K
Tel: (905) 688-5550 ext.3215
Internet: bgrant@spartan.ac.brocku.ca

• ($500.00) Research for the Second edition of Film Genre Reader (1992).

($900.00) Research and acquiring stills for Film Genre Reader II (Fall, 1993).

• Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1992, 267 pages.

• "Point of View and Spectator position in Meat and Primate," Wide Angle, Volume 13, No. 2, 1991, pp. 56 - 67.
• "Taking Back The Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, feminism and the Horror film," Wide Angle, Volume 14, No. 1, 1991, pp. 4 - 16.
• "Looking Upwards: Reason and the Visible in Science Fiction Film," Gender, Language and Myth: Essays in Popular Narrative, ed. Glenwood Irons, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, pp. 185 - 207.
• "The Body Politic: Ken Russell in the Eighties," Fires Were Started: British Cinema in the Thatcher Era, ed. Lester Friedman, University of Minnesota Press, 1993, pp. 188 - 203.

• Boris Karloff: A Critical Biography, Scott Allen Nollen, Choice, October 1991.
• The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terrence Fisher, Metuchn, Choice, January 1992.
• Essays on Quebec Cinema, ed. Donahoe, Choice, April 1992.
• A Night in Tunisia: Imaginings of Africa In Jazz, Norman C. Weinstein, Journal of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, Volume 25, No. 4 (Fall, 1992), pp. 94 - 95.
• The Aesthetics of Ambivalence, Brooks Landon, Choice, April 1993.
• Review of Bill Nichols, Representing Reality in Film Quarterly 46, no. 4 (Summer, 1993) 50-51.
• Review of Mark Jancovich, Horror in Choice (March, 1994).
• Review of Michael Renov, Theorizing Documentary in Choice (May, 1993).

• "Standards: documentary film on popular music", Expert Interviewee, Broadcast CBC, March 1991.
• Board of Editors for Literature/Film Quarterly.
• Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) executive for second year of two year term.
• FSDVA Representative, Niagara Arts Council, combined initiative with the Lincoln County School Board.
• Coverage of Toronto Film Festival for CKTB/AM/HTZ-FM, St. Catharines, September, 1993.
• Adjudicator, Kervi Awards (Annual Lincoln County School Board Video Competition), April 1994.
• Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman, (nominated for Theatre Library Book Award), University of Illinois Press, 1992.

• "Taking back The Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism and the Horror Film," Film Studies Association, Learned Societies, Kingston, May 1991.
• "The Spiritual Alternative in the Documentaries of Frederick Wiseman," James Beveridge Lecture Series, York University, November 1991.
• "The Body Politic: Ken Russell in the Eighties," Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh, May 1992; Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, Learned Societies, University of Prince Edward Island, May 1992.
• "Rich and Strange, or Something Thirty This Way Comes: The Yuppie Horror Film," Literature/Film Association Annual Conference, University of Rhode Island, October 1992; Film Studies Association Annual Conference, Learneds, Ottawa, June 1993; Fullbright 2nd Annual American Studies Conference, University of Waikato, New Zealand, July 1993; 18th Annual Literature/Film Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Flori da, January 1994.

• "Reality Fictions," Third Annual Humanities Symposium, December 1991.
• Respondent, "Current Media Issues," Panel of Interdisciplinary Conference on Censorship, Society and Politics, Department of History, November 1991.
• "The Relevance of the Humanities," Third Annual Humanities Symposium, January 1993, after-dinner address.