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Dr James Ballands
Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries

Biography

After completing a BA and an MA in English and Related Literature at the University of York, I began a PhD in the TFTI department under the supervision of Professor Duncan Petrie, graduating in 2016. My thesis focused on the British filmmaker Terence Davies, and I have delivered several conference papers on his work.

Having taught regularly in TFTI since my time as a PhD student, I was appointed to the position of Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries in 2023. I teach on a range of undergraduate modules, including Creative Materials, The Discipline of Genre, Business for Performance, Non-Fiction Forms of Film and Television, Individual Project (BCI) and Group Project (BCI).

I have also worked extensively with the Centre for Lifelong Learning and the City Screen cinema, facilitating short courses on a variety of cinematic subjects, including the French New Wave, Ingmar Bergman, film noir, Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Japanese cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, and Agnès Varda.

Contact details

Dr James Ballands
School of Arts and Creative Technologies
University of York
York
YO10 5GB

Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 5235