Dr Terence McSweeney is an independent researcher who has published on a variety of film, history and literature topics. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Essex on Andrei Tarkovsky in 2009. He is the co-editor of Millennial Cinema: Memory in Contemporary Global Film (Wallflower Press, 2011). His most recent project is a full length book called Contemporary American Cinema: 9/11 Frames per Second. His research specialisms are: Andrei Tarkovsky; Russian cinema from pre-Soviet to post-Glasnost; South East Asian Cinemas (especially South Korea); cinematic representations of memory; film theory; video game theory; Gilles Deleuze.
Terence has delivered papers on a wide range of subjects from Andrei Tarkovsky to George Romero and Kim Ki Duk.
Selected Publications:
McSweeney, T. “Sculpting the Time Image: A Deleuzian Reading of Tarkovsky”. In T.H. Ottarrson and G.A. Jonsson, eds. Through the Mirror-Reflections on the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006).114-167.
McSweeney, T. “‘A State of Mind, Not a Way of Thinking’”: The Spiritual Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky”. In K. Morefield, ed. Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). 58-72.
McSweeney, T. “Apocalypto Now: A New Millennial Pax Americana in Crisis?”. In K. Patrick-Hart and A. Holba, eds. Media and the Apocalypse Anthology (New York: Peter Lang, 2009). 167-188.
McSweeney, T. “Land of The Dead: George Romero’s Vision of a Post 9/11 America”. In J. Birkenstein, K. Randell and A. Froula, eds. Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the War on Terror. (New York & London: Continuum Press, 2010). 172-189.
McSweeney, T. “‘Nobody Helps the Family’: South Korean Cultural Identity in Bong Joon-ho’s The Host.” In Cross Cultural Studies. Vol 20, September 2010 (Centre for Cross Culture Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea). 275-294.
