Background
Colin MacCabe was born on February 9, 1949, in the United Kingdom. He is a son of Myles Joseph and Ruth Ward MacCabe.
54 Eaton Rise, Ealing, London W5 2ES, UK
From 1956 to 1966 Colin MacCabe was educated at St. Benedict’s School, Ealing in London.
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
From 1972 to 193 Colin MacCabe attended Ecole Normale Superieure.
Trinity College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
In 1971 Colin MacCabe received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College, Cambridge and a Master of Arts degree in 1974, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976.
Trinity College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
In 1971 Colin MacCabe received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College, Cambridge and a Master of Arts degree in 1974, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976.
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
From 1972 to 193 Colin MacCabe attended Ecole Normale Superieure.
54 Eaton Rise, Ealing, London W5 2ES, UK
From 1956 to 1966 Colin MacCabe was educated at St. Benedict’s School, Ealing in London.
(This second edition of Colin MacCabe's James Joyce and th...)
This second edition of Colin MacCabe's James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word reprints a classic critical text on Joyce and adds a wealth of new material which places the text in its political and historical context. The argument links politics and literature, sex and language, to provide an account of Joyce which places him continually in both Irish and European history.
https://www.amazon.com/James-Joyce-Revolution-Word-Second/dp/0333531531/?tag=2022091-20
1979
(Godard: Images , Sounds, Politics is an important step in...)
Godard: Images , Sounds, Politics is an important step in making [experiments in image and sound beyond the institutions of cinema and television] visible. It reads the earlier films through the more recent work, focusing on politics, technology and sexuality. These insistent themes dominate Godard's investigation of our representation in the image, a representation always inflected by sound. These terms enable us to understand more critical the circulation of moeny and images in which we participate, a circulation which Godard's work cuts across.
https://www.amazon.com/Godard-images-politics-British-Institute/dp/0253212669
1980
(This book, which grew out of a series of seminars at King...)
This book, which grew out of a series of seminars at King's College, Cambridge, addresses itself to the problem of understanding the relations between psychoanalysis and language not only in terms of contemporary linguistic and philosophical conceptions of language but also in relation to the wider field of the human sciences.
https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Cure-Psychoanalysis-Language-Discourse/dp/0333235606/?tag=2022091-20
1981
https://www.amazon.com/James-Joyce-Perspectives-Colin-MacCabe/dp/0710800282/?tag=2022091-20
1982
https://www.amazon.com/Tracking-Signifier-Theoretical-Linguistics-Literature/dp/0816614601/?tag=2022091-20
1985
https://www.amazon.com/High-Theory-Low-Culture-Television/dp/0719019516
1986
https://www.amazon.com/Public-Service-Broadcasting-Images-Culture/dp/0719019656
1986
https://www.amazon.com/Futures-English-Colin-MacCabe/dp/071902546X/?tag=2022091-20
1988
https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Young-Rebel-Isaac-Julien/dp/0851703100/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(In The Eloquence of the Vulgar, the distinguished academi...)
In The Eloquence of the Vulgar, the distinguished academic Colin MacCabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual in contemporary life. A radical argument emerges from the book's diverse concerns. Cinema and television - the new and democratic art forms of the twentieth century - demand a fundamental rethinking of our concepts of language and culture. What is at stake is the very idea of a liberal and humane education.
https://www.amazon.com/Eloquence-Vulgar-Colin-MacCabe/dp/0851703941/?tag=2022091-20
1993
https://www.amazon.com/New-Scholarship-Research-Working-Papers/dp/0851705200/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(The original and varied articles comprising Who is Andy W...)
The original and varied articles comprising Who is Andy Warhol? were specially written by an amazing variety of authors - including Christopher Hitchens, Peter Wollen, and Victor Bockis - for an event held at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Through these pieces writers, researchers, and friends explore the nature of Warhol's achievements and the extent of his influence.
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Andy-Warhol-Colin-MacCabe/dp/085170588X/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(In this book, having conducted extensive interviews with ...)
In this book, having conducted extensive interviews with surviving participants, Colin MacCabe presents the definitive history of the making of Performance, as well as a new interpretation of its artistry.
https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Film-Classics-Colin-MacCabe/dp/0851706703
1998
(Cultural theorist Colin McCabe reflects on cultural chang...)
Cultural theorist Colin McCabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between the popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual in contemporary life. Cultural theorist Colin McCabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between the popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual in contemporary life.
https://www.amazon.com/Eloquence-Vulgar-Language-Politics-Culture/dp/0851706770/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Drawing on his own working experience with Godard and his...)
Drawing on his own working experience with Godard and his coterie, Colin MacCabe, in this first biography of the director, has written a thrilling account of the French cinema's transformation in the hands of Truffaut, Rohmer, Rivette, and Chabrol - critics who toppled the old aesthetics by becoming, legendarily, directors themselves - and Godard's determination to make cinema the greatest of the arts.
https://www.amazon.com/Godard-Portrait-Artist-at-Seventy/dp/0571211054/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(T.S. Eliots's life took him from the United States to Eng...)
T.S. Eliots's life took him from the United States to England, from philosophy to poetry and from modern scepticism to traditional Christianity. Colin MacCabe's study places Eliot's poetry in the context of these journeys and uses Eliot's life to illuminate his poetry. This poetry, although very modest in quantity, remains one of the great artistic triumphs of the English language. In his ironic accounts of adolescent desire in 'The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock' and 'Portrait of a Lady', he performs masculine self-doubt with a pathos and wit that has yet to be surpassed in poem, book or song. But these early poems can seem like mere exercises beside the astonishing achievements of 'Gerontion' and 'The Wasteland', poems which defined a generation and which broke the mould in English verse to allow a symphony of despairing voices to bear witness to the destruction in Europe. Finally, in 'Four Quartets' he forges an original form and a compelling tone to hymn both religious belief and national destiny.
https://www.amazon.com/T-S-Eliot-Writers-Their-Work/dp/0746310544/?tag=2022091-20
2006
("The Butcher Boy" is perhaps the finest film to have come...)
"The Butcher Boy" is perhaps the finest film to have come out of Ireland. Although it breaks clearly with the banal canons of realism, it is nonetheless the most realistic of Irish films. It engages with the society and culture of modern Ireland with a wit and ferocity that denies the viewer any easy moral position. Cinema is often thought of as a purely visual art, but this film is adapted from a groundbreaking novel by a filmmaker who is himself a writer of prose fiction. In this present study, Colin MacCabe examines the process by which fiction becomes film, and writing becomes image. The book places "The Butcher Boy" in the overall context of Neil Jordan's career, and analyzes the trajectory between his international and national films.
https://www.amazon.com/Butcher-Boy-Ireland-into-Film/dp/1859182860/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(Upholding literature and film together as academically in...)
Upholding literature and film together as academically interwoven, Perpetual Carnival underscores the everlasting coexistence of realism and modernism, eschewing the popularly accepted view that the latter is itself a rejection of the former. Mining examples from both film and literature, Colin MacCabe asserts that the relationship between film and literature springs to life a wealth of beloved modernist art, from Jean-Luc Godard's Pierre le Fou to James Joyce's Ulysses, enriched by realism's enduring legacy. The intertextuality inherent in adaptation furthers this assertion in MacCabe's inclusion of Roman Polanski's Tess, a 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's nineteenth-century realist novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Showcasing essays enlivened by cosmopolitan interests, theoretical insight, and strong social purpose, Perpetual Carnival supports a humanities which repudiates narrow specialization and which seeks to place the discussion of film and literature firmly in the reality of current political and ideological discussion. It argues for the writers and directors, the thinkers and critics, who have most fired the contemporary imagination.
https://www.amazon.com/Perpetual-Carnival-Essays-Film-Literature-ebook/dp/B01N0LOLDV/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(The volatile life of the eponymous 17th-century painter i...)
The volatile life of the eponymous 17th-century painter is gorgeously re-imagined through his brilliant, near-blasphemous paintings and flirtations with the underworld. With Tilda Swinton, Sean Bean, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gough, and Nigel Terry in the title role.
https://www.amazon.com/Caravaggio-Noam-Almaz/dp/B00241VL42/?tag=2022091-20
1986
(The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of W...)
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs and land disputes.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Hill-Aled-Baker/dp/B01N42MZKO/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(The lives of an English working-class family are told out...)
The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.
https://www.amazon.com/Distant-Voices-Still-Terence-Davies/dp/B002QM8S4K/?tag=2022091-20
1988
Colin MacCabe was born on February 9, 1949, in the United Kingdom. He is a son of Myles Joseph and Ruth Ward MacCabe.
From 1956 to 1966 Colin MacCabe was educated at St. Benedict’s School, Ealing in London. In 1971 MacCabe received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College, Cambridge and a Master of Arts degree in 1974, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976. From 1972 to 193 he attended Ecole Normale Superieure.
From 1976 to 1981 Colin MacCabe was a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, an assistant lecturer of English from 1976 to 1981, and a professor of English studies from 1981 to 1985. From 1983 to 1985 he was a director of John Logie Baird Centre for research in television and film and a chairman from 1985 to 1991. From 1985 to 1991 MacCabe served as a visiting professor at Strathclyde University.
From 1985 to 1989 MacCabe was a head of production at British Film Institute, London, and a head of research from 1989 to 1998. In 1987 MacCabe was appointed a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1998 he up a fractional professorship at the University of Exeter and served until 2006, and then at Birkbeck, University of London from 1992 to 2006.
In 2014 he was appointed a visiting Professor of English at University College London. He is currently a distinguished professor of English and film at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a visiting Professor of English at University College, London and at the Birkbeck Institute. MacCabe is a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Colin MacCabe is best known as the author of James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word and Diary of a Young Soul Rebel. His books received high praise from critics. He also gained a good reputation as executive producer of films Caravaggio, On the Black Hill, Distant Voices, Still Lives, which received international awards.
(Drawing on his own working experience with Godard and his...)
2003(This book, which grew out of a series of seminars at King...)
1981(In The Eloquence of the Vulgar, the distinguished academi...)
1993(The original and varied articles comprising Who is Andy W...)
1997(Upholding literature and film together as academically in...)
2016(Cultural theorist Colin McCabe reflects on cultural chang...)
1999(This second edition of Colin MacCabe's James Joyce and th...)
1979(In this book, having conducted extensive interviews with ...)
1998(Godard: Images , Sounds, Politics is an important step in...)
1980("The Butcher Boy" is perhaps the finest film to have come...)
2007(T.S. Eliots's life took him from the United States to Eng...)
2006(The volatile life of the eponymous 17th-century painter i...)
1986(The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of W...)
1987(The lives of an English working-class family are told out...)
1988Colin MacCabe is a member of Academia Europaea.
Colin MacCabe has two sons and one daughter.
