Dr Robert Edgar

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Name:

Dr Robert Edgar

Email:

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:

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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2021) Venue Stories: music venues as creative, transformative territories. In: Bodies Territories Touch 8th International Conference of Autoethnography, 18-20th July 2021, Online. (Submitted)
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2021) Horrifying Tales: An Anthology - Introduction. In: Horrifying Tales. Greenteeth Press
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2019) Hiatus: Music, memory and liminal authenticity. In: Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen, (eds.) Music, Memory and Memoir. London, Bloomsbury, pp. 13-24
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and King, Liesl (2019) Science fiction for survival. Scarborough, Valley Press
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Marland, John (2019) Adaptation for Scriptwriters. Bloomsbury
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2009) Basics Film-Making 03: Directing Fiction. 1st ed. London, Bloomsbury
Richards, James, Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Marland, John (2009) Basics Film-Making 02: Screenwriting. 1st ed. Bloomsbury
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Fairclough-Isaacs, Kirsty and Halligan, Benjamin, eds. (2013) The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop. Routledge
Halligan, Benjamin, Fairclough-Issacs, Kirsty, Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Spelman, Nicola (2015) The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. New York, Bloomsbury

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop	183
2	Music, Memory and Memoir	154
3	Music, Memory and Memoir: Critical and creative engagement with an emerging genre	129	81
4	The Language of Film	102	3
5	Science fiction for survival	80	1
6	The Aesthetics of the Arena: Live and Recorded	78
7	Basics Film-Making 02: Screenwriting	58
8	Adaptation for Scriptwriters	51
9	The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment	51
10	Basics Film-Making 03: Directing Fiction	49