Dr Ruth Doughty
Liverpool Screen School
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
School: Liverpool Screen School
Email address: R.J.Doughty@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 4769
Dr Ruth Doughty is the Programme Leader for Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research interests include African American cinema, Film Music, Theory and Liverpool. Ruth is one of the co-founding editors of the peer-reviewed Routledge journal Transnational Screens (formerly Transnational Cinemas). She has also co-authored the book Understanding Film Theory (2017, 2nd edition) which has been translated into easy Chinese 电影理论自修课. Ruth is the principal investigator on a Heritage Lottery Funded project looking at the history of the Littlewoods Pools building in Liverpool as part of an oral history/audio-visual community project.
Degrees
2005, Keele University, United Kingdom, PhD
Academic appointments
Programme Leader - Film Studies, Film Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014 - present
Internet publication
Doughty RJ. 2018. Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It takes aim at the ‘clown with the nuclear codes’ Publisher Url
Doughty RJ. 2017. Spike Lee: Selling the Black Aesthetic. In Media Res: A Media Commons Project Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
Doughty RJ. 2017. The Buppie and Authentic Blackness: Middle-class cultural producers in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled and HBO’s Treme Film International, 3-4 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Doughty RJ. 2012. Katrina’s City? New Orleans, Race, Myth, Forced Migration and Return Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, 3 DOI Publisher Url
Doughty RJ. 2007. Manderlay (2005): Lars von Trier’s Narrative of Passing New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 5 :153-161 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Doughty RJ, Griffiths K. 2007. Racial Reflection: La Haine and the Art of Borrowing. Studies in European Cinema, 3 :117-127 DOI
Doughty R, Griffiths K. 2006. Racial reflection: La haine and the art of borrowing Studies in European Cinema, 3 :117-127 DOI Publisher Url
Book
Doughty R, Etherington-Wright C. 2017. Understanding Film Theory Palgrave MacMillan. Basingstoke 978-1137528230 Publisher Url
Doughty RJ, Etherington-Wright C. 2011. Understanding Film Theory Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke 9780230217102
Chapters
Doughty RJ, Shaw D. 2016. Teaching ‘the World’ Through Film Bennett B, Marciniak K. Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy Routledge. New York and Oxford 9781317401056
Doughty RJ. 2015. bell hooks Ness I, Cope Z. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Palgrave MacMillan. Houndmills, Basingstoke 978-0-230-39277-9 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Doughty RJ. 2009. African American Film Sound: Scoring Blackness Harper G, Eisentraut J, Doughty RJ. Sound and music in film and visual media :325-339 Continuum International Publishing, London 9780826458247 Public Url
Research Grants Awarded:
QR Funding, Littlewoods Heritage Project: 1 x Digital Archive Curator (Research Assistant), 2 x Museum Archive Assistants (Internships), 2 x LJMU Special Collection Interns, 1 x Facelab Intern and 1 x Web Design Intern and 1 x Historical Researcher Intern, Caroline Wilkinson LJMU, Grant value (£): 8307.55, Duration of research project: 5 months. 2022
QR Policy Support Fund, Littlewoods Heritage Project: Digital Archive Curator (Research Assistant), 4 x Museum Archive Assistant (Internships) and 2 Web Design and Content Creation (Internships), Grant value (£): £9,995.68, Duration of research project: 6 months. 2021
LJMU Funded Internship, Littlewoods Heritage Project: 4 x Museum Archive Assistants, Grant value (£): 9,955.80, Duration of research project: 10 months (20 days). 2019
Heritage Lottery, Littlewoods Heritage Project, Pete Woodbridge, Grant value (£): 48,100, Duration of research project: 18 months (Extended to 2024 due to COIVD). 2019
LJMU Funded Internship Programme, Littlewoods Heritage Project: 2 x Museum Archive Assistants (internships), Grant value (£): £1643.84, Duration of research project: 3 Months. 2019
LJMU Curriculum Enhancement Internships, Littlewoods Heritage Project: 2 x Archive Researchers and Oral History Interviewers (internships), Grant value (£): 1,596.98, Duration of research project: 3 Months (12 days). 2018
Accommodation Partnership Income (API), The Motivations Expectations and Preparedness of Students from Northern Ireland and Other UK Students Project, Danielle Chavrimootoo, Grant value (£): 27,000, Duration of research project: 1. 2017
Other invited event:
Big Ideas: Community Research Event, LJMU, Invited to talk about the Littlewoods Heritage Project. 2022
Ignite: Littlewoods Heritage Project, Leaf, Bold St, Liverpool, Talk for the general public about the Lottery Funded Littlewoods Hertiage Project: https://igniteliverpool.com/2019/09/littlewoods-heritage-project-ruth-doughty/. 2019
The BlacKkKlansman, The Slavery Museum, Liverpool, A public lecture Introducing Spike Lee's 2018 film, The BlacKkKlansman. 2019
Scoring Psycho, Liverpool Philharmonic, The public lecture on the use of music in the iconic Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho (1960). 2016
Other Professional Activity:
Above All: Inside the Littlewoods Dream Factory - Premiere Screening. 2022
Media Coverage:
Inside Out: BBC North West 2020
Radio Merseyside: Littlewoods Coffee Morning 2020
Radio Merseyside: Littlewoods Heritage Project Launch 2019
Editorial boards:
Transnational Screens Journal, Co-founding Editor, https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rtrc20. 2019
Transnational Cinemas Journal, Founding Editor of Routledge Peer Reviewed Journal (Formerly Published by Intellect), http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rtrc20#.VtRwq9ASeXc. 2008
Conference presentation:
She’s Gotta Have It (2017): Spike Lee and the Commodification of Black Culture, BAFTSS, Kent/University of Kent, Oral presentation. 2018
Supporting students from Northern Ireland: Exploring the barriers and enablers for a successful transition to higher education in the UK, HEA Annual Conference, Manchester/University of Manchester, Oral presentation. 2017
The City that Time Forgot: Filmic Temporality in New Orleans, Post-Katrina, BAFTSS, Bristol/University of Bristol, Oral presentation. 2017
A Comparative Analysis of Students from Northern Ireland and the UK: Motivation, Preparedness and Expectations, Enhancing Student Engagement Conference, London/NCVO Society Building, Oral presentation. 2017
How to Hide a Hurricane: Sprinkling Fairy Dust on Disaster in The Princess and the Frog, Film and the Environment, Norwich/University of East Anglia, Oral presentation. 2016
Teaching qualification:
PostGraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP). 2016
Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. 2007
Fellowships:
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Academy, https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/recognition-accreditation/fellowships/become-fellow-hea.
Membership of professional bodies:
Member of BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies), British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS),, http://www.baftss.org/.
Member of MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association), Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA),, http://www.meccsa.org.uk/.