M Croombs

Dr Matthew Croombs

PhD
Pronouns: He/him

Positions

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Arts, Department of Communication, Media and Film

Contact information

Email

matthew.croombs@ucalgary.ca

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 Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary. His work focuses on the intersection between documentary film, political modernism, and anti-colonialism and has been published in Discourse, Cinema Journal, Third Text, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Screen. At the moment, he is completing a manuscript entitled: Cinema Against State Terror: Documentary Aesthetics and the Algerian War.

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

  • "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)