Dr Michael Goddard

Senior Lecturer in Media

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Wednesday 11.00am-14.00pm

Thursday 10.00am-13.00pm

Michael Goddard has been teaching and researching at the University of Salford since 2007. During this time he contributed research support to the EU project Societies and Lifestyles (SAL) and also has organized several international conferences on The Fall, Subcultures and Lifestyles in Eastern Europe, Polish Cinema, and Noise as well as numerous invited seminars. He was involved with the foundation of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema and worked as both Reviews editor and Co-Editor and is now serving on the advisory board. He was also a founding member of the Network for European Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) and served for three years on the publications committee working towards the successful establishment of the NECSUS journal amongst other activities. As well as actively developing an international research and teaching profile, Michael has been active in numerous conferences and other events in the UK and Europe, North America, Latin America and the Antipodes and has delivered invited presentations in many of these locations. Until recently he was programme leader of the English and Film programme  and is now the PGR Co-ordinator for the Media, Music and Performance students of the School of Arts and Media. Prior to this Michael was a Visiting Professor at the University of Lódz, Poland (2004-2007) and before that held numerous positions including Lecturer in Television at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and Lecteur d’anglais at the Charles V Institute, of the University of Paris.

Michael Goddard’s teaching ranges across undergraduate and postgraduate levels and is focused on both film and media studies. He has taught a range of modules on the TV and Radio programme including the core module Media Texts and Audiences, New Media and Digital Culture and Alternative Media, and has also taught film studies modules such as Critical Approaches to Film, Research Methods and Film and Theory. He also teached subjects such as Digital Culture, and Film Form on several MA programmes, and is supervising MA and PHD research in Electronic Dance Music, Film Adaptations, and the use of social media in political movements.

Michael Goddard's current research centres on European cinema and media culture, particularly in Poland from the 1960's to the present as well as on radical media in the spheres of film and video, radio, post-punk musics and cyberculture. This research has resulted in multiple book chapters and journal articles. His research into radical media is connected to his contribution to the paradigms of media archaeology and especially media ecologies and this approach underlies his current research project on radical media ecologies of the 1970s, as well as the issue of Fibreculture, he co-edited with Jussi Parikka, namely Unnatural Ecologies. He has also done substantial research into Gilles Deleuze's aesthetic and film theories, which has also resulted in a number of publications. Currently he is finishing the monograph Impossible Cartographies for publication by Wallflower Press in late 2013 on the cinema of the Chilean-born filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. Another strand of his research concerns Italian post-autonomist political thought and media theory, particularly the work of Antonio Negri and Franco Berardi (Bifo), which has resulted in several journal publications. More recently he has co-edited two volumes on noise for Continuum and is currently co-editing a collection on music videos.

Michael Goddard was awarded a PHD in Art History and Theory from the University of Sydney (2004) and an MA with high distinction from the University of Otago in Film Studies (1998). He also completed a BA Honours in Communications at UTS, Sydney with first class honours (1995).

He is a founding member of the NECS network as well of the Network for Eastern European Film Scholars in the UK (NEEFSUK), for which he has organised research events.

Authored Books

2013, Impossible Cartographies: The Cinema of Raul Ruiz, Wallflower Press, London, UK. 

2010, Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism and the Subverison of Form, Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, USA. 

Refereed Journal Articles

2012, Goddard, M & Halligan, B, 'Filming the Post-Fordist Worker: From Industrial Hollywood to Digital Biopolitics', Framework

2012, Goddard, M 'Cinematic and Aesthetic Cartographies of Subjective Mutation', Subjectivity.

2010, 'Towards a Genealogy of Media Ecologies: The Case of Italian Free Radios', FibreCulture.

2007, 'East-West European Superpositions as Transvergent Cinema: Greg Zglinski's 'Tout un hiver sans feu (2005).'', Studies in French Cinema, Vol 7, No. 2, pp.107-117.

2006, 'We Are Time: Laibach/NSK, Retro-Avantgardism and Machinic Repetition', Angelaki: A Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 11(1), pp.45-54.

2005, 'Diagram for a Transversal, Molecular Feminism?', Women: A Cultural Review: Special Issue on Guattari and Feminism, 16 (3), pp.271-283. 

2005, '68-77-99 and Beyond: Bifo's Futural Thought', Cultural Studies Review, 11(2), pp.49-56.

2005, 'The Surface, the Fold and the Subversion of Form: Towards a Deleuzian Aesthetic of Sobriety', PLI: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Vol 16

Book Chapters

2013, 'Noise from Nowhere: Exploring 'Noisyland's' Darker, Experimenatal and Industrial Music', in: Goddard, M & Halligan, B & Spelman, N (eds.), Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music, Continuum, New York, London, UK, USA. 

2013 'No Wave Film and the Music Documentary: From "Documents" to Retrospective Documentaries', in: Halligan, B & Fairclough, K & Edgar, R (eds.), The Music Documentary, Routledge, New York, USA.

2013 'Beyond Moral Realism: The Subversive Cinema of Andrzej Zulawski', in: Beyond the Border: Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context, Rochester University Press, Rochester, NY, USA.

2011 'The Impossible Polish New Wave and its Accursed Auteurs', in: Imre, A (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Eastern European Cinema, Blackwell, New York, USA.

2010 'Eastern Europe as Site of Monstorsity in Import-Export and La Vie Nouvelle', in: Kendall, T & Horeck, T (eds.), The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2010 'Escaping Socialist Realism: The 'Chaste' Ruiz of the 1970s', in: Critical Perspectives on the Cinema of Raul Ruiz, Cinamateque of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.

2010 'The Ontology and Ethics of the Multitude: The Place of Spinoza in the Political Philosophy of Toni Negri', in: Reading Negri, Open Court, Chicago, USA, p.0.

2010 Goddard, M and Halligan, B  'Introduction: 'Messing up the Paintwork'', in: Mark E Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics, Ashgate, London, UK.

2009 'Raymond Bellour', in: Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, Acumen, Durham, UK, pp.256-265.

2009, 'Unravelling HollyLodz: The Industrial and Cinematic Imaginary of Lodz', in: Images of the City, edited Agnieszka Rasmus et al, Cambridge Scholars Press.

2008 'Sonic and Cultural Noise as Production of the New: The Industrial Music Media Ecology of Throbbing Gristle', in: Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New, Ed. Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zebke, Continuum, Continuum, London, UK, pp.162-172.

2008, 'Eurotrash Between Trash Culture and the Avant-Garde: The Strange Case of Walerian Borowczyk', in: Rubbish, Waste and Litter: Culture and its Refus(e)als. Tadeusz Rachwal ed. Warsaw: Academica..

2008, 'Figure of Post-Communist Desire?: The Performance of Katarzyna Figura or, how Polish Cinema Became Popular', in: KINO POLSKIE: REINTERPRETACJE, Eds. Konrad Klejsa and Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska, Wydawnictwo Rabid, Krakow. 2008, 'Deterritorialised Spaces and Anomalous Bodies: New Corporeal Cartographies in Hungarian Cinema', in: Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context, Eds. Miyase Christensen and Nezih Erdogan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Edited Books

2013, Goddard, M & Mazierska, E  Beyond the Border: Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context, Rochester University Press, Rochester, USA. 

2013, Goddard, M, Halligan, B & Spelman, N 2013, Resonances: Noise

2012, Goddard, M, Halligan, B & Hegarty, P 2012, Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics of Noise, Continuum, London, United

2010, Goddard, M & Halligan, B, Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics, Ashgate, London, UK.

2009, McKay, G, Williams, C, Goddard, M, Foxlee, N & Ramanauskaite, E Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe, Peter Lang, Oxford, UK.