Dr Matthew Croombs
Positions
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts, Department of Communication, Media and Film
Film Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Department of Communication, Media and Film
Contact information
Background
Credentials
Postdoctoral Fellow , King's College London , 2017
Educational Background
Doctor of Philosophy Cultural Mediations , Carleton University, 2013
M.A. Film Studies , Carleton University, 2006
Hons BA Cinema studies , University of Toronto , 2002
Biography
Matthew Croombs is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on the intersection between anti-colonial film, documentary, and film theory, and has been published in Screen, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (Cinema Journal), Discourse, Third Text, Quarterly Review of Film and Television Studies, Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies and several other journals. He is the author of Cinema Against State Terror: French Anti-colonial Documentary and the Algerian War (forthcoming with Rutgers University Press) and the co-editor of Cinemas of Global Solidarity (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| FILM 201 LAB 01 B01 | Introduction to Film Studies | 2020 |
| COMS 71110 SEC 02 S02 | Directed Studies | 2020 |
| FILM 201 LEC 01 01 | Introduction to Film Studies | 2020 |
| FILM 201 TUT 01 T01 | Introduction to Film Studies | 2020 |
| FILM 201 TUT 02 T02 | Introduction to Film Studies | 2020 |
| FILM 201 TUT 03 T03 | Introduction to Film Studies | 2020 |
| FILM 201 TUT 04 T04 | Introduction to Film Studies | 2020 |
| FILM 201 TUT 05 T05 | Introduction to Film Studies | 2020 |
| FILM 201 TUT 06 T06 | Introduction to Film Studies | 2020 |
| FILM 30524 LAB 02 B02 | Topic in Genre | 2020 |
| FILM 30524 LEC 02 02 | Topic in Genre | 2020 |
Publications
- Introduction: From International Humanism to More-than-Human Solidarity. Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies . 1-6. (2025)
- "The Simple Image: On Militant Cinema in Turkey". Matthew Croombs and Mert Orsler . Quarterly Review of Film and Video 37 (8). pp.755-781. (2020)
- "In the Wake of Militant Cinema: Challenges for Film Studies". Discourse, 41(1). 68-89. (2019)
- "Legacies of Militant Cinema: Réne Vautier and the Anti-Colonial Combat Film". Matthew Croombs . Afterthoughts and Postscripts, Cinema Journal . (2018)
- "La jetee in historical time: torture, visuality, displacement". Matthew Croombs. Cinema Journal . 25-45. (2017)
- "Loin du Vietnam Solidarity, Representation and the Proximity of the French Colonial Past". Matthew Croombs . Third Text. 489-505. (2014)
- "French Algeria and the police: horror as political affect in three short documentaries "by Alain Resnais. Matthew Croombs. Screen. 29-47. (2014)
- "Pasts and futures of 1970s film theory". Matthew Croombs . Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies. 1-18. (2011)
- "Algeria deferred: The logic of trauma in Muriel and Caché.". Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies. 1-13. (2010)
- Cinemas of Global Solidarity . Co-edited with Masha Salazkina . Oxford University Press. (2026)
- Cinema Against State Terror: French Anticolonial Documentary and the Algerian War. Rutgers University Press. (2026)
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