I am currently completing a book on the political economy of the Hollywood film industry. I have recently published articles on celebrity and cultural politics as well as co-edited a special issue of Cultural Politics on this issue. I have also published on image rights, political communication and personality, on distribution and marketing in Hollywood and on memory and film. I am currently involved in a number of research projects including one examining political celebrity and the public engagement with politics with Dr Michael Higgins (Strathclyde) and Dr Andy Ruddock (Monash) and another on the Kate Adie archive with Dr Angela Smith (Sunderland) and Dr Michael Higgins (Strathclyde).
I have reviewed journal, book and grant proposals for numerous organisations and publishers including the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Irish Research Council of Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSRC), Open University Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Blackwell, John Wiley, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Scope and Cultural Politics. I have received funding from the Carnegie Trust, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), The British Academy and Scottish Enterprise. In 2007 and 2004 I was awarded Carnegie Research Grants to conduct archive research in the US on the Hollywood film studios.
In 2005 I co-organised a major international conference on Celebrity Culture (with Dr Andy Miah). This hosted a wide range of international speakers with more than 80 presentations and 100 attendees, attracting a great deal of global media interest. See http://celebrity-culture.blogspot.com for details, including the substantial media coverage as well as the archived conference website at http://www.celebrity.paisley.ac.uk. I am a founding member of the American Cinema Research Group, a network of UK based scholars working in the field. See http://americancinema.blogspot.com/ for further details. I also sit on the Steering Group for Channel Four's 4 Talent Scotland.
Select publications
(forthcoming) Philip Drake (with Richard Haynes) ‘Television, Deregulation and the Reshaping of Leisure’ in Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg (eds) The New Politics of Leisure: Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2010) Philip Drake (with Andy Miah) (eds) Special edition of the international refereed journal Cultural Politics (Berg) on Celebrity.
Volume 6, Number 1, March 2010, pp.49-124. (Journal general editors: Douglas Kellner, John Armitage and Ryan Bishop.)
(2010) Philip Drake (with Andy Miah) 'The Cultural Politics of Celebrity', Cultural Politics, Volume 6, Number 1, March 2010, pp. 49-64.
(2008) 'Distribution and Marketing in contemporary Hollywood' in Janet Wasko and Paul McDonald (eds) The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry, Oxford and New York: Blackwell.
(2008) 'Stars' in Wolfgang Donsbach (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Communication, Oxford and New York: Blackwell.
(2008) 'From Hero to Celebrity: The new economics of stardom' in Susan Drucker and Gary Gumpert (eds.) Heroes in a Global World, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
(2007) 'Who owns celebrity? Privacy, publicity, and the legal regulation of celebrity images' in Su Holmes and Sean Redmond (eds.) Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader, London: Sage.
(2006) 'Reconceptualizing Screen Performance', Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 58, Nos. 1-2, Spring/Summer 2006 [special edition on Screen Performance].
(2006) (with Michael Higgins) 'I'm a Celebrity, Get me into Politics: the political celebrity and the celebrity politician' in Su Holmes and Sean Redmond (eds.) Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture, London: Routledge.
(2006) 'Celebrity, television and the tabloids' and 'Celebrity and Reality television' in Douglas Gomery and Luke Hockley (eds.) Television Industries, London: British Film Institute/University of California Press.
(2005) 'Magic moments': the textuality of musical memory in contemporary Hollywood cinema', in Geoff Stahl (ed.) Practicing popular music: IASPM 2003 Conference Proceedings, Montreal: McGill University.
(2004) (with Iain Docherty and Stuart Gulliver) 'Exploring the Potential Benefits of City Collaboration', Regional Studies, Vol. 38.(4): 445-456.
(2004) (with Andy Miah) 'Playing on the level: The 'Level Up' International Digital Games Research Conference, Utrecht University, 4–6 November 2003' Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 26(6): 906-909 [review article].
(2004) 'Jim Carrey: the cultural politics of dumbing down', in Andy Willis (ed.) Hollywood Stars and Beyond, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
(2003) (with Iain Docherty and Stuart Gulliver) 'Exploring the Potential Benefits of City Collaboration', Urban Change and Policy Research Group Discussion Paper No 8, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, ISBN 1 903825 06 7.
(2003) 'Mortgaged to music': new retro movies in 1990s Hollywood cinema' in Paul Grainge (ed.), Memory and Popular Film, Manchester University Press.
(2002) 'Low Blows? Theorizing Performance in Post-classical Comedian Comedy' in Frank Krutnik (ed.) Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader, Routledge.
(2001) 'Sociology and the Screen' - review of the Screen Studies Conference 2001, Inter/Sections: Journal of global communications and culture, Vol 1 Issue 2.
Select conference papers / invited presentations
(2009) ‘Rights, contracts, action!: a critical production studies perspective on Hollywood authorship’. Invited Research Paper, Centre for Screen Studies, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow, Dec 2009 [invited paper].
(2009) ‘Talent and reputation in Hollywood: the case of Hal Ashby’ Archives and Auteurs: filmmakers and their archives conference, September 2009, University of Stirling.
(2008) 'The Art of the Deal: analysing contracts in contemporary Hollywood', SCMS Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 6-9 March 2008 [organiser of panel 'New Approaches to the contemporary Hollywood Industry'].
(2007) 'Show me the money! : star contracts in contemporary Hollywood cinema', University of Salford Research Seminar, 18th April [invited paper].
(2007) 'Untangling Spider -Man’s web: contracts and creative accounting in a contemporary Hollywood franchise', SCMS Annual Conference, Chicago, 8-11 March 2007.
(2006) 'Framing Cameron: the cultural politics of political celebrity', Political Studies Association: Media and Politics Group, 17-18 November 2006 [w. Michael Higgins].
(2006) 'Hollywood contracts and creative accounting'', American Cinema Research Group, University College, University of London, 18 September 2006.
(2006) 'Framing politics: politicians and the resources of celebrity', Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Reading, 3-6 April 2006 [w. Andy Ruddock and Michael Higgins].
(2006) 'Reconceptualizing method acting: stars and supporting actors in The Godfather (1971)', SCMS Annual Conference, Vancouver, 1-5 March 2006.
(2005) 'Arnold Schwarzenegger and the rhetoric of political celebrity', Political Studies Association, Media and Politics Group, University of East Anglia, 11-12 November 2005 [w. Michael Higgins].
(2005) 'Opening Address', Celebrity Culture: an international conference, University of Paisley, 12-14 September 2005 [also Conference Chair]
(2005) 'High concept: the monster that ate Hollywood?', Glasgow School of Art, April 2005 [invited lecture]
(2004) 'Cultural Studies, Games and Gamers', Scotland at Play: DIGRA Scotland Lecture, Glasgow Caledonian University, December 13th 2004 [invited lecture].
(2003) 'The Cultural Study of Computer Games: the emergence of a research area', MeCCSA Conference, University of Brighton, December 20-22nd 2003 [w. Andy Miah].
(2003) ''Magic moments': the textuality of musical memory in contemporary Hollywood cinema', IASPM 2003 Biennial Conference, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, July 3rd-7th 2003.
(2002) 'Stardom, intentionality and performance', MeCCSA Conference, University of Reading, December 18-20th 2002.
(2002) 'Celebrity Post-Fordism and the economics of the media conglomerates', Capitalism and Communications Conference, University of Westminster, June 13th-14th 2002.
(2002) ''Prosthetic Pasts': Mediated memory in contemporary Hollywood cinema', Retro Culture, Glasgow School of Art, May 2002 [invited].
(2002) 'High Concept: making movies and making money', Glasgow School of Art, April 2002 [invited].
(2002) 'Collaborative Cities: Inter-city Networks as a distinctive urban asset', Urban Affairs Association Annual International Conference, Boston, USA, March 20-23, 2002 [w. Iain Docherty].
(2002) 'Promoting the urban way of life as part of city revitalisation strategies', Urban Affairs Association Annual International Conference, Boston, USA, March 20-23, 2002 [w. Iain Docherty].
(2001) ''Mortgaged to Music': Retro Perspectives in Jackie Brown', Screen Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, July 2001.
(2000) 'The Economics of Contemporary Hollywood', Research Paper, University of Paisley, November 2000 [invited].
(2000) 'Theorising Screen Performance: a phenomenological approach', University of York, February 2000 [invited].
(1999) 'Jim Carrey: the framing of comic performance', Screen Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, July 1999.
(1998) 'You've been framed!': film studies and performance', Stage and Screen Conference, University of Glasgow, 1998.
Conferences attended include:
(2009) Researching Cinema History: perspectives and practices in film historiography, University of Portsmouth and the British Universities Film & Video Council, July 2009, London.
(2005) SCMS Conference, Institute of Education, University of London, March 31-April 3, 2005.
(2003) 'Level Up': DIGRA Inaugural Conference, University of Utrecht, Nov 3-7, 2003.
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