Kevin Rockett is an Irish film historian, writer, and scholar specializing in the history of Irish cinema.
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He is currently an associate professor in Film Studies and head of the School of Drama, Film and Music, at Trinity College, Dublin, and the author, co-author, or editor of numerous books, including Cinema and Ireland (1987), The Irish Filmography (1996), Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries (2003) and Irish Film Censorship (2004).
Kevin Rockett | |
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Occupation | Film historian Author Scholar |
Language | English |
Nationality | Irish |
Education | PhD University of Ulster, 1989 M.A. (jure officii) Trinity College, 2004 |
Alma mater | University of Ulster |
Period | 1980–present |
Genre | Film history |
Subject | Irish film |
Notable works | – Cinema and Ireland - The Irish Filmography - Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries - Irish Film Censorship |
Notable awards | Irish Film Institute Award |
Rockett became a member of the Irish Film Institute in 1979, and was its chairman from 1984 through 1991. He received his doctorate from the University of Ulster in 1989. He taught film studies at University College Dublin before joining the faculty at Trinity College in 2000. Rockett was made a Fellow of the college in 2004, receiving his Master in Arts (jure officii), and currently serves as head of Trinity College's school of drama, film and music.
In 1995, Rockett wrote the screenplay for the film Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?, directed by Donald Taylor Black.
The Irish Times wrote in 1996 of Rockett's early work Cinema and Ireland (1987), offering that it "remains the Bible of Irish film studies." Filmmaker Bob Quinn wrote of Irish Filmography: Fiction Films 1896 – 1996 (1996), "[the book is] an extraordinary opus. Rockett is an excellent and painstaking scholar. Never before has anybody attempted to document in one volume every film ever made in or about Ireland. The amount of detail he has unearthed is no less than stupendous. The nearest literary analogy I can think of is Dineen's Irish Dictionary." Jeff Brownrigg of Australia's National Film and Sound Archive wrote that the book is "an indispensable tool for the researcher," and that it "provides a valuable source of information about a large group of international narrative feature films gathered together under the head of their general association with Ireland." He comments on the book's nearly two thousand entries and makes note of its comprehensive nature, concluding that it "is clearly an essential reference for libraries and will be sought by film buffs."
Lir Mac Cárthaigh of Film Ireland wrote that Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries (2003) "provides a convenient starting-point for anyone intending to write about Jordan's work, the history of Irish film, or cinematic representations."
John Kelleher, former Director of the Irish Film Classification Office, referred to Rockett's book Irish Film Censorship (2004) as the key text on the subject. It was described as "magisterial," (Hugh Linehan, Irish Times) "monumental," (RTÉ Radio 1) "meticulous," (Luke Gibbons, Irish Times) and "fascinating" (Kim Bielenberg, Irish Independent).
In 2001, Rockett received the Irish Film Institute Award for Contribution to Irish Film.
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