Dr Andy Birtwistle


NameDr Andy Birtwistle
Job titleReader in Film and Sound
Research instituteSchool of Creative Arts and Industries

Research outputs

Beyond beauty: Taiwan from above (2013)

Andy Birtwistle 2022. Beyond beauty: Taiwan from above (2013). in: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis and Wenchi Lin (ed.) 32 New Takes on Taiwan Cinema University of Michigan Press.

Ensemble and otherness: The jazz musician in Robert Altman’s Kansas City (1996)

Birtwistle, A. and Fox, K. 2022. Ensemble and otherness: The jazz musician in Robert Altman’s Kansas City (1996). Savoirs en prisme. (16 (part 2)), pp. 59-74. https://doi.org/10.34929/sep.vi16.257

Jack Ellitt as director: Documentary films of the 1940s

Birtwistle, A. 2021. Jack Ellitt as director: Documentary films of the 1940s. Journal of British Cinema and Television. 18 (3), pp. 329-359. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0577

Start here: Sounding the materiality of the compact audio cassette

Birtwistle, A. 2021. Start here: Sounding the materiality of the compact audio cassette. Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture. 2 (2), pp. 192-217. https://doi.org/10.1525/res.2021.2.2.192

Material resistance: towards a politics of listening

Birtwistle, A. 2020. Material resistance: towards a politics of listening. Echo. (1).

Le Moulin: audiovisual non-synchronization and the making of a historical documentary

Birtwistle, A. 2020. Le Moulin: audiovisual non-synchronization and the making of a historical documentary. in: Pickowicz, P.G. and Zhang, Y. (ed.) Locating Taiwan Cinema in the Twenty-First Century Amherst, New York Cambria Press. pp. 153-171

Big Paul: The death of video and the return of the repressed

Birtwistle, A. 2019. Big Paul: The death of video and the return of the repressed. in: Lissel, E., Jutz, G. and Jukić, N. (ed.) Reset the Apparatus! A Survey of the Photographic and the Filmic in Contemporary Art Berlin/Boston De Gruyter. pp. 91-104

Start Here - the art of the audio cassette

Birtwistle, A. 2017. Start Here - the art of the audio cassette. Canterbury Start Here.

Meaning and musicality: sound-image relations in the films of John Smith

Birtwistle, A. 2017. Meaning and musicality: sound-image relations in the films of John Smith. in: Rogers, H. and Barham, J. (ed.) The Music and Sound of Experimental Film New York Oxford University Press. pp. 167-183

Noise, agency, and the sound of obsolete technology

Birtwistle, A. 2017. Noise, agency, and the sound of obsolete technology. FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur. 61.

Photographic sound art and the silent modernity of Walter Ruttmann's 'Weekend' (1930).

Birtwistle, A. 2016. Photographic sound art and the silent modernity of Walter Ruttmann's 'Weekend' (1930). New Soundtrack. 6 (2), pp. 109-127. https://doi.org/10.3366/sound.2016.0086

Electroacoustic composition and the British documentary tradition

Birtwistle, A. 2016. Electroacoustic composition and the British documentary tradition. in: Greene, L. and Kulezic-Wilson, D. (ed.) Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated Soundtracks Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 387-402

Radical conformity: Len Lye and the theorisation of film practice

Birtwistle, A. 2015. Radical conformity: Len Lye and the theorisation of film practice.

Heavy weather: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tsai Ming-liang, and the poetics of environmental sound

Birtwistle, A. 2014. Heavy weather: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tsai Ming-liang, and the poetics of environmental sound. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 32 (1), pp. 72-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2012.757529

House

Birtwistle, A. 2014. House. Spectacle, 124 South 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY, 11249 05 - 21 Jun 2014

House

Birtwistle, A. 2014. House. The Holy Underground, Baltimore, USA 11 Jul 2014

House

Birtwistle, A. 2014. House. Osnabrueck, Germany 20 - 24 Apr 2014

House

Birtwistle, A. 2014. House. New York Jun 2014

House

Birtwistle, A. 2013. House.

Listen

Birtwistle, A. and Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury 2013. Listen. in: Stone, H. (ed.) John Smith Canterbury Sidney Cooper Gallery.

White noise: the representation of modernity in the films of Pai Ching-jui

Birtwistle, A. 2012. White noise: the representation of modernity in the films of Pai Ching-jui. in: Chang, B. and Klöter, H. (ed.) Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag.

Douglas Gordon and cinematic audiovisuality in the age of television: experiencing the experience of cinema

Birtwistle, A. 2012. Douglas Gordon and cinematic audiovisuality in the age of television: experiencing the experience of cinema. Visual Culture in Britain. 13 (1), pp. 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2012.641780

The Turner Prize: lead monkey of democracy

Birtwistle, A. 2000. The Turner Prize: lead monkey of democracy.

Noise, memory, monotony and drones: the sound of film technology

Birtwistle, A. 2008. Noise, memory, monotony and drones: the sound of film technology.

Noise, memory, monotony and drones: The sound of film technology

Birtwistle, A. 2009. Noise, memory, monotony and drones: The sound of film technology.

White Noise: The representation of Modernity in the films of Bai Jing-rui

Birtwistle, A. 2009. White Noise: The representation of Modernity in the films of Bai Jing-rui.

White Noise: The representation of Modernity in the films of Bai Jing-rui

Birtwistle, A. 2009. White Noise: The representation of Modernity in the films of Bai Jing-rui.

White Noise: The representation of Modernity in the films of Bai Jing-rui

Birtwistle, A. 2009. White Noise: The representation of Modernity in the films of Bai Jing-rui.

Disorganising organised sound: The silent modernity of Walter Ruttman's Weekend

Birtwistle, A. 2009. Disorganising organised sound: The silent modernity of Walter Ruttman's Weekend.

Stories of the Eye - Harbouring History

Birtwistle, A. 2007. Stories of the Eye - Harbouring History. Vertigo. 3 (5), p. 31.

Review: Sync: Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time James Tobias, Sync: Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010, 304 pp.

Birtwistle, A. 2011. Review: Sync: Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time James Tobias, Sync: Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010, 304 pp. Screen. 52 (4), pp. 528-531. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjr049

Cinesonica: sounding film and video

Birtwistle, A. 2010. Cinesonica: sounding film and video. Manchester Manchester University Press.

Marking time and sounding difference: Brubeck, temporality and modernity

Birtwistle, A. 2010. Marking time and sounding difference: Brubeck, temporality and modernity. Popular Music. 29 (3), pp. 351-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143010000243

Robert Altman’s Kansas City (1996) and the spaces of jazz

Fox, K. and Birtwistle, A. 2008. Robert Altman’s Kansas City (1996) and the spaces of jazz.

Real-time

Birtwistle, A. 2000. Real-time. in: Pearson, R. and Simpson, P. (ed.) Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory London Routledge.

Text

Birtwistle, A. 2000. Text. in: Pearson, R. and Simpson, P. (ed.) Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory London Routledge.

Mode of production

Birtwistle, A. 2000. Mode of production. in: Pearson, R. and Simpson, P. (ed.) Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory London Routledge.

Independent cinema

Birtwistle, A. 2000. Independent cinema. in: Pearson, R. and Simpson, P. (ed.) Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory London Routledge.

L'Adventurra (The Adventure)

Birtwistle, A. 1997. L'Adventurra (The Adventure).
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