Professor Phil Powrie
Academic and research departments
Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, Literature and Languages.About
Biography
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My latest published poems:
- ''', morphrog 32, January 2026.
- ', The Gentian 22, 21 December 2025.
- '', Fragmented Voices, 5 December 2025.
- ', Pollux 6, 11 November 2025.
- '', Feral, 'Joy issue', 30 September 2025.
- '', ³¢'´¡±ô³Ùé°ù¾±³Ùé, 22 septembre 2025.
My latest academic publication: (2026). '', in Music, Ideology, Commerce, and Popular Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s, edited by Michael Baumgartner and Ewelina Boczkowska, 128-150.
My latest book:
—‘a thought-provoking revision, a brilliant read on what we thought we knew’ (Kathryn Kalinak)
—‘wonderfully rich in its range…astonishing one with its revelation of the joyous and disturbing things musical moments can do’ (Richard Dyer)
—‘highly original analyses of hitherto marginalised films’ (Estella Tincknell)
Phil Powrie with Greg Hainge at Phil's public lecture as part of the University of Queensland's Distinguished ÌÇÐÄVlogor Programme August 2018
Phil Powrie as Chair of BAFTSS opening the BAFTSS 2017 Conference in Bristol
Phil Powrie as Chair of BAFTSS with Sarah Street, winner of the Best Book Award at the BAFTSS conference in London 2014
Phil Powrie as Executive Dean opening the International Guitar Centre 2014, with the guitarist John Williams, Steve Goss, the Director of the Centre, and Nadine Powrie
Phil Powrie as Executive Dean signing an MOU at the Taiwan Embassy in 2014
Phil Powrie as ÌÇÐÄVloging Professor with Beijing Film Academy's PhD students in 2013
Phil Powrie as ÌÇÐÄVloging Lecturer with the Head of Film at Shanghai Theatre Academy 2010
Phil Powrie with the undergraduate film class at the Shanghai Theatre Academy 2010
Phil Powrie reappointed as ÌÇÐÄVloging Professor at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing 2010
Phil Powrie, Will Higbee and James Williams on the panel Phil and Peter Barta organised for the conference on Bicultural Literature and Film 2010
ResearchResearch interests
I have written across the range of French cinema, including silent cinema as well as recent French films. In 1999 I was made Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government for services to French cinema.
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Indicators of esteem
Distinguished ÌÇÐÄVlogor Programme, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2018
ÌÇÐÄVloging Professor, Beijing Film Academy 2012-2014
ÌÇÐÄVloging Professor, Central Academy of Drama (Beijing) since 2005
Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques 1999
Research interests
I have written across the range of French cinema, including silent cinema as well as recent French films. In 1999 I was made Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government for services to French cinema.
Please visit to see details. You can see a .
Indicators of esteem
Distinguished ÌÇÐÄVlogor Programme, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2018
ÌÇÐÄVloging Professor, Beijing Film Academy 2012-2014
ÌÇÐÄVloging Professor, Central Academy of Drama (Beijing) since 2005
Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques 1999