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Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard
Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard, MPhil., is a doctoral candidate at Stirling University and part of the AHRC-funded project ‘The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson’. She taught film, media and French language and culture, as a lecturer at Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (2004-07) and as a teaching assistant at the University of Aberdeen (2000-06). Her main research area is the work of Lindsay Anderson as a film critic and film, TV and theatre director (1946-1994). Her research interests also lie in Authorship in Film, the British, French, Polish and Czechoslovak New Waves of the 1960s, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis applied to screen analysis, screenwriting for film and television, media and education, with presentations and a workshop at IAMCR 2006 and ECREA (2007 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School).
She also has practical experience in writing and directing for feature films with workshops and training courses at Raindance Festivals LTD, London and ESRA (Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle), Nice, France. She also did a couple of placements in television production at the BBC Aberdeen (factual programming), and the former Grampian TV, now STV, Aberdeen (News broadcasting).
She has contributed a number of conference papers and articles to the project – two of which were published in 2010 as a sole author:
June 2010: "The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson: Anderson's Directorial Practice”, Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, Vol. 3, No. 1. ISSN 1755-9944
January 2010: “Creating Authorship? Lindsay Anderson and David Sherwin’s Collaboration on If…. (1968)”, Journal of Screenwriting 1:1., pp. 131-148., Intellect Journals, ISSN: 1759-7137
Two as a contributor:
June 2010: “What Is There To Smile At? Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man!” in Don’t Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s, Paul Newland ed., Intellect Books, 215-27. ISBN 9781841503202.
February 2010: “Music/Industry/Politics: Alan Price’s Roles in O Lucky Man!” in British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade, Laurel Forster, Sue Harper eds., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 201-12. ISBN 978-1-4438-1734-9.
‘The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson’ is an AHRC-funded project at the University of Stirling (Sept 2007 - Sept 2010). The Principal Investigator is Professor John Izod,with Karl Magee as Senior Archivist and Co-investigator, Kathryn Mackenzie as Archivist and Research Assistant, and Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard.