Prof. Allen Richard William
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Richard Allen’s research interests as a scholar began in the areas of film theory and the philosophy of film. His first book, Projecting Illusion (Cambridge University Press, 1997), articulated a sophisticated version of the illusion theory of representation as a basis for defending a psychoanalytic conception of spectatorship. In addition, he edited, with Murray Smith, one of the first anthologies of analytic film theory, in the philosophical sense of "analytic," entitled Film Theory and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1999). Without relinquishing a belief in the value of conceptual clarity within humanistic inquiry, his work has moved towards a revised conception of theory that is manifest in Wittgenstein, Theory, and the Arts (Routledge, 2001), co-edited with Malcolm Turvey.
Research Interest
Research Interests/Areas Bollywood Bombay Cinema Film Theory Hitchcock Melodrama Philosophy of Film Psychoanalysis Wittgenstein
