Dr Patrick Adamson

Associate Lecturer in Film Studies

Researcher profile

Email

pa41@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

First floor

Location

101a North Street

Office hours

By appointment only

 

Research areas

Patrick Adamson is an Associate Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, Editor at Open Screens, and Assistant Editor at Film Journal.

His research has been published in Film History: An International Journal (2019), Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film (ed. by David Roche and Hervé Mayer, 2022), Film Journal (2024), and Motifs (2025).

He received the “Best Doctoral Student Article or Chapter” award from BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) in 2020 and the “Best PhD Dissertation on English-Language Cinema” award from SERCIA (Société pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche du CInéma Anglophone) in 2021. 

His monograph Projecting America: The Epic Western and National Mythmaking in 1920s Hollywood will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press in October 2025.

Selected publications

• Projecting America: The Epic Western and National Mythmaking in 1920s Hollywood

  Adamson, P., 15 Oct 2025, (Accepted/In press) University of Oklahoma Press. 248 p. (The Popular West; vol. 3)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Trouble on the historical frontier: Will Rogers’ Two Wagons—Both Covered (1924)

  Adamson, P., 25 Feb 2025, In: Motifs. 9, 1137.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Fractured Flickers (1963–64): Comic corruptions of the silent screen

  Adamson, P., 1 Dec 2024, In: Film Journal. 10, p. 1-19

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Transnationalism on the Transcontinental Railroad: John Ford’s The Iron Horse (1924)

  Adamson, P., 9 Apr 2022, Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film. Mayer, H. & Roche, D. (eds.). Indiana University Press, p. 33-50

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• American History at the Foreign Office: Exporting the Silent Epic Western

  Adamson, P., 19 Sept 2019, In: Film History. 31, 2, p. 32-59

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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