Accepting applications from PhD students.
Email: D.Topp@soton.ac.uk
Dominic's current research explores storytelling and style in post-war French, Italian and British cinema within a historical poetics framework.
Dominic currently convenes the following modules:
FILM1001: Introduction to Film: Form, Style and Analysis
FILM2006: Introduction to Film Studies
FILM6045: Auteur Filmmakers: Case Studies in Cinema
Dominic has previously taught modules on the following topics: Analysing Film; Art and Film; Avant-Garde and Experimental Cinema; Classical Film Theory and Textual Analysis; Classical Hollywood Cinema; Cognition and Emotion in Film; Fan Culture: Film, Comics and Games; Film Authorship; Film History: Research Methods; Film Programming; Film Style; Film Theory; History of British Cinema; Hollywood Studio System; Postwar European Cinema; Pulp Film: The Avant-Garde and Popular Cinema; Sound, Music and Cinema; Television Series: Narration, Engagement and Evaluation.
Dominic joined the University of Southampton in 2022, having previously taught at the University of Kent (Canterbury) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Santiago). He has published articles in Film Education Journal, Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind and Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual and chapters in the edited collections Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals and Cinema History (2020), Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences: Desire by Design (2023) and French Popular Cinema of the 1950s: Quality, Tradition and Innovation (forthcoming).
Dominic holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Kent (for a thesis on the political modernist cinema of Jean-Luc Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group), an MA in History of Film and Visual Media from Birkbeck, University of London and a BA (Hons) in English Studies from Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a member of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image.
