Tony Tracy

Dr Tony Tracy is Lecturer in Film and Media Studies (above the bar). He joined the University of Galway in 2000 with a brief to establish film studies at undergraduate level and was a co-founder of the Huston School of Film amp; Digital Media in 2003. He has designed and directed established a number of Hustons flagship programmes including the BA with Film Studies and the MA Film Studies [Theory amp; Practice] and taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules including: Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood cinema; Early amp; Silence Cinema, Global Cinemas; Irish Cinema; Film Exhibition and Distribution in Digital Age; Media amp; Audiences. Dr Tracy brings a wide range of interests and experience to his teaching, research and supervision; combining a background in film education and productiondistribution with scholarship of high quality and impact.Published research areas include: Irish cinema as a cultural and industrial phenomena; masculinities in film and popular culture; Irish America in film and literature; early and silent cinema.More recently he has undertaken research in cultural constructions of ageing and was Irish PI (Principal Investigator) for the EU funded project MASCAGE: IMAGES OF AGEING MASCULINITY IN EUROPEAN FICTION AND FILM. Among his Public - No restrictionations are the monograph White Cottage-White House: Irish-American Masculinities in Hollywood (SUNY Press) and the co-edited collections Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinem a (Routledge) , Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture (Routledge), Irish Masculinities and Popular Culture: Tigers Tales (Palgrave) and John Huston; Reflections on a Restless Director (McFarland). He is co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema and since 2014 was founding editor of the annual review of Irish film for the journal Estudios Irlandeses . He has also published about and produced a documentary on the pioneering KALEM film company and the pioneering role of Gene Gauntier as an early female actorscreenwriterproducer. Along with a notable Public - No restrictionation record and regular contributions to a range of festivals and cultural forums, Tony is a frequent contributor to Irish media (notably radio) on a variety of film related themes. From 2005-2015 he was a board member of the Fresh Film Festival and a judge on Irelands Young Filmmaker competition. He works regularly with filmmakers in film development and PR.

Published research areas include:Irish cinema as a cultural and industrial phenomena; masculinities in popular culture; Irish America in film and literature; early and silent cinema.More recently he has undertaken research incultural constructions of ageingand is the Irish PI (Principal Investigator) for the EU funded project MASCAGE: IMAGES OF AGEING MASCULINITY IN EUROPEAN FICTION AND FILM.He is enthusiastic to offer research supervision in any of these or related fields.Among his Public - No restrictionations are the monographWhite Cottage-White House: Irish-American Masculinities in Hollywood and the edited collectionsIrish Masculinities and Popular Culture: Tigers Tales (Palgrave) andJohn Huston; Reflections on a Restless Director (McFarland). He is co-author of theHistorical Dictionary of Irish Cinema and the annual review of Irish Film for the journalEstudios Irlandeses , the only review of its kind. He has also published about and produced a documentary on the pioneering KALEM film company and the role of Gene Gauntier within it.

Key teaching areas include: Masculinities and popular culture; Irish Cinema; European Cinemas; Early and Silent and Film; Hollywood Histories; Film After Film: Contexts of Consumption and Conservation;Cultural constructions of ageing.