Announcing a visiting Fulbright scholar in Film Studies at UCC

7 May 2013

Awarding winning biographer and historian Patrick McGilligan will be a visiting scholar in Film Studies from October 2013.

Awarding winning biographer and historian Patrick McGilligan will be a visiting scholar in Film Studies from Oct. 2013. He will co-teach American Cinema after 1960 (with Gwenda Young) on the MA in Film Studies.

Patrick McGiligan is one of the world's leading film biographers and historians, with a prolific profile in the area of American cinema. Some of his books include:

• Clint: The Life and Legend
• Robert Altman: Jumping off the Cliff
• Cagney: The Actor as Auteur
• George Cukor: A Double Life
• Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
• Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
• Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
• Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
• Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director

In addition, he has conducted interviews with screenwriters and directors whose work spans eight decades of American cinema and has edited or co-edited several collections (e.g. Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist (with Paul Buhle); five volumes ofBackstory (interviews with screenwriters); Film Crazy (interviews with film directors); and several screenplays (White Heat; Yankee Doodle Dandy, for U of Wisconsin press). He is a renowned expert on the Hollywood blacklist. He also provided commentaries for a number of dvd releases . McGilligan has extensive teaching experience at Marquette University, Wisconsin.