Catherine O'Brien (film scholar) explained

Catherine O'Brien (born in 1962) is a British academic, film scholar, linguist and writer.^[1] Her main fields are French cinema; the First World War^[2] in French and German cultures in relation to art and comparative literature^[3] and the intersections between cinema, theology and religion.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Early life and education

O'Brien obtained a Bachelor of Arts (1985) as well as a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.;1994) both in French and German from the University of Hull in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.^{[7] [8]}

Academic career

From 1989 to 2017, O'Brien was a senior lecturer at Kingston University, a public research university located within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South West London, United Kingdom. O'Brien was mainly based at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the Penrhyn Road Campus.^{[9] [10]} She taught a wide range of courses on both the French and the Film Studies degrees and was a Module Leader for French Cinema, New Wave Cinema, European Cinema, Female Archetypes on Screen and final-year French Language.^[11] O'Brien was the Course Director for the Master of Art in Film Studies from 2003 to 2007. As Director of Studies, she has supervised Doctorate theses.^[12] She went on to become the co-director of the Center for Marian Studies at the University of Roehampton in England.^{[13] [14]} O'Brien has been a visiting professor at several universities in the West such as the University of Westminster^[15] or the University of Notre Dame located in South Bend in Indiana.^{[16] [17]}

Selected bibliography

Non-exhaustive list of her works:^[18]

Books

• Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion (2018,).^[19]
• The Celluloid Madonna: From Scripture to Screen - investigating the screen portrait of the Virgin Mary (2011,).
• Women's Fictional Responses to the First World War: A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by French and German Writers (1997,).^[20]

Articles

• "Love, What Have You Done to Me?" Eros and agape in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess. Journal of Religion and Film, 18(1), (2014,).
• "In Bruges: heaven or hell?" Literature and Theology, 26(1), pp. 93–105. (2012,).
• "Marian film in the 21st century". Marian Studies, 60, pp. 287–296. (2009,).
• "Mythological readings of Mary's motherhood". Marian Studies, 57, (2006,).
• "Seeking perfection of form: French cultural responses to the dogma of the Immaculate Conception". Marian Studies, LV, pp. 114–134. (2004,).
• "From sacred to secular: translations of the infancy narratives in Twentieth Century French culture". Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies, 3(2), pp. 226–238,(2003,).
• "When radical meets conservative: Godard, Delannoy and the Virgin Mary". Literature and theology: an international journal of religion, theory and culture, 15(2), pp. 174–186, (2001,).
• "Book Review of: Writing otherwise: Atlan, Duras, Giraudon, Redonnet, and Wittig by Jeannette Gaudet". French Studies, 55(2), pp. 276–277, (2001,).
• "Beyond the can[n]on: French women's responses to the First World War". French Cultural Studies, 7(20), pp. 201–213, (1996,).

Book sections

• "Women in the cinematic gospels". In: Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda, (ed.) The Bible in motion : a handbook of the Bible and its reception in film. Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 449–462, (2016,).
• "Mary in film". In: Boss, Sarah Jane, (ed.) Mary: the complete resource. London, U.K. : Continuum. pp. 532–536, (2007,).
• "Mary in modern European literature". In: Boss, Sarah Jane, (ed.) Mary: the complete resource. London, U.K. : Continuum. pp. 521–531, (2007,).
• "Sacrificial rituals and wounded hearts: the uses of Christian symbolism in French and German women’s responses to the First World War". In: Fell, Alison S. and Sharp, Ingrid, (eds.) The Women’s Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914–19. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 244–259, (2007,).
• "A double message: French literary responses to Mariology". In: Cooke, Paul and Lee, Jane, (eds.) (Un)faithful texts? : religion in France and Francophone literature, from the 1780s to the 1980s. New Orleans, USA : University Press of the South. pp. 201–213, (2000,).
• "There is no greater love: Biblical imagery in Women's First World War literature". In: Schneider, Thomas F, (ed.) The experience of war and the creation of myths : the image of modern war in literature, theatre, photography, and film. Osnabrück, Germany : Universitätsverlag Rasch. pp. 339–351, (1999,).

Conferences

• Scorsese’s divine tragedy - Roehampton, U.K. (october 2013)
• Biblical tales - a mother's love: adapting the story of Mary and Jesus for the screen - European Cinema Research Forum Annual Conference in Ormskirk, U.K (16-18 July 2012).
• "Ave Maria”: sacred spaces in 'Lourdes' and '28 Days Later' - NECS Conference: Sonic Futures: soundscapes and the languages of screen media, London, U.K.. (June 2011)
• Agape: a maternal narrative. In: Representations of Love in Film and Television; 11–14 November, Milwaukee, U.S. (2010)
• In Bruges: heaven or hell? - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference; 24 - 27 Jun, Istanbul, Turkey. (2010).
• An ordinary extraordinary couple: performing the life of Mary and Joseph - Kingston upon Thames, U.K. (July 2009).
• The life of Mary in film - The Mariological Society of America 60th Annual Program, Florida, U.S. (May 2009).
• The celluloid Madonna : re-visioning the narrative of the mother of Jesus, Southampton, U.K. (September 2008)
• Mythological readings of Mary's motherhood - Mariological Society of America 57th Annual Meeting, Detroit, U.S. (May 2006).
• The nature of sacrifice. In: The Gentler Sex? Responses of the women's movement to the First World War 1914–1919, London, U.K. (September 2005).
• The marshmallow effect: writing the life of the Virgin Mary in French culture - Society of French Studies Conference, Sheffield, U.K. (July 2003)^[21] .

See also

• France–Germany relations.
• List of religious films.
• Cinema of France.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Classifications: PN1995.9.M334, 791.43682.. 6 June 2020. World Cat Identities.
2. Book: Fell. A.. The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-19. Sharp. I.. 2007-04-12. Springer. 978-0-230-21079-0. en.
3. Book: Rinke, andrea. Images of Women in East German Cinema, 1972-1982: Socialist Models, Private Dreamers and Rebels. 2006. Edwin Mellen Press. 978-0-7734-5684-6. en.
4. Web site: Virtual international authority file - Individual 271389553. VIAF.
5. Web site: IdRef Website - Identifiers and repositories for Higher Education. 6 June 2020. IdRef.
6. Web site: For Authors – Knowledge Unlatched. 2020-06-06. Knowledge Unlatched and EBSCO Information Services. en-US.
7. Book: Deighton, Alan. Order from Confusion: Essays Presented to Edward McInnes on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. 1995. New German Studies, German Department, University of Hull. 978-0-85958-750-1. en.
8. Book: O'Brien. Catherine. Women's Fictional Responses to the First World War: A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by French and German Writers. O'Brien. Professor Catherine. 1997. P. Lang. 978-0-8204-3141-3. en.
9. Book: Lloyd. Professor Fran. Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Rethinking Culture. Lloyd. Fran. O'Brien. Catherine. 2000. Berghahn Books. 978-1-57181-788-4. en.
10. Book: Reinhardt, Catherine A.. Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean. 2006. Berghahn Books. 978-1-84545-079-3. en.
11. Book: Leglu, Catherine. Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of the Parody in the Troubadour Lyric. 2017-12-02. Routledge. 978-1-351-19829-5. en.
12. Book: Gratton, Johnnie. Expressivism: The Vicissitudes of a Theory in the Writing of Proust and Barthes. 2000. European Humanities Res Ctr. 978-1-900755-26-9. en.
13. Web site: About The Centre for Marian Studies. 2020-06-06. CMS. en.
14. Web site: Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. 2020-06-06. www.conted.ox.ac.uk.
15. Web site: Varia University of Westminster, London. 2020-06-06. www.westminster.ac.uk.
16. Web site: Dame. University of Notre. Lecture: The Virgin Mary on Screen - Mother and Disciple // College of Arts and Letters // University of Notre Dame. 2020-06-06. College of Arts and Letters. 15 March 2016 . en.
17. Web site: In the News: May 5, 2016. 2020-06-06. udayton.edu. en.
18. Web site: Items where Kingston Author is "O'Brien, Catherine" - Kingston University Research Repository. 2020-06-06. eprints.kingston.ac.uk.
19. Book: O'Brien, Catherine. Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2018. 978-1350003293. London.
20. Book: O'Brien, Catherine. Women's Fictional Responses to the First World War: A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by French and German Writers. University of California. 1997. 0820431419. USA.
21. Web site: Dr Catherine O'Brien's Works. University of London. 6 November 2018. University of London Research Repository (Kingston Annex). 11 November 2018.