James Harvey

Dr James Harvey is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Hertfordshire. His research is preoccupied with the politics and aesthetics of film and screen media, with an emphasis on documentary, artists’ moving image and art cinema. He is especially interested in themes of race, coloniality and nation.

James is the author of John Akomfrah (BFI Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2023), Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and the editor of Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).