Dr Robert Edgar

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Name:

Dr Robert Edgar

Email address:

r.edgar@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy

Organisation:

York St John University

Address:

York ST John University Lord Mayor's Walk York YO23 1NG

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Homepage URL:

https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/york-centre-for-writing/meet-the-team/rob-edgar/dr-rob-edgar.html

Biography

Expertise:

Scriptwriting, Film Adaptation, Popular Music Memoirs, Folk Horror and the Eerie, Theories of Comedy, Adaptation, Genre Writing, Film Theory

Job title:

Associate Professor in Creative Writing

Biography:

Robert Edgar is an Associate Professor in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy at York St John University. His teaching specialisms include scriptwriting, memoir and genre fiction. He has published on Screenwriting (AVA 2009), Directing Fiction (AVA 2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (Routledge 2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury 2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury 2019) and Film Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury 2019). Ongoing research and creative projects include writing sound, writing the eerie and indie music memoirs.

Qualifications:

BA, PhD, SFHEA

My Latest

Edgar, Robert and King, Liesl (2019) Science fiction for survival. Scarborough, Valley Press
Edgar, Robert, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2019) Music, Memory and Memoir: Critical and creative engagement with an emerging genre. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 12 (1-2). pp. 181-199.
Edgar, Robert and Marland, John (2019) Adaptation for Scriptwriters. Bloomsbury (In Press)
Edgar, Robert (2009) Basics Film-Making 03: Directing Fiction. 1st ed. London, Bloomsbury
Richards, James, Edgar, Robert and Marland, John (2009) Basics Film-Making 02: Screenwriting. 1st ed. Bloomsbury
Edgar, Robert, Fairclough-Isaacs, Kirsty and Halligan, Benjamin, eds. (2013) The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop. Routledge
Halligan, Benjamin, Fairclough-Issacs, Kirsty, Edgar, Robert and Spelman, Nicola (2015) The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. New York, Bloomsbury
Edgar, Robert, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2019) Music, Memory and Memoir. London, Bloomsbury (In Press)
Edgar, Robert, Marland, John and Rawle, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7908-8249 (2015) The Language of Film. 2nd ed. Basics filmmaking . London, Bloomsbury
Edgar, Robert (2017) The Aesthetics of the Arena: Live and Recorded. In: The Screen Media Reader Culture, Theory, Practice. Bloomsbury, pp. 421-434

My Most Viewed

	Item title	Views
1	Desperately seeking Kylie!: Critical reflections of William Baker's White Diamond	1266
2	The Aesthetics of the Arena: Live and Recorded	442
3	The Language of Film	438
4	Music, Memory and Memoir	267
5	Music, Memory and Memoir: Critical and creative engagement with an emerging genre	240
6	Basics Film-Making 02: Screenwriting	202
7	Basics Film-Making 03: Directing Fiction	189
8	Adaptation for Scriptwriters	181
9	The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop	175
10	The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment	163