Jo Fox
Encyclopedia
Professor Jo Fox is an academic historian specialising in the history of film and propaganda in twentieth-century Europe. She is currently a professor at Durham University
.
Before becoming a university lecturer, she had intended to use her historical training to work in heritage
, but changed her mind after a student at the University of Kent
told her, 'You have been an inspiration to all of us! You should be teaching!'
In 2007, she was appointed a National Teaching Fellow
. She is also a member of the Council for the International Association of Media and History and is on the editorial board of their academic journal, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
Her interest in using new learning technologies has influenced others within Durham University, and in other institutions. Notably, she contributed a case study to the National Blackboard Conference, chaired by Lord Dearing.
Her most significant published work is Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II (2007), in which she compares the use of cinema in propaganda in Britain and Germany in the Second World War.
documentary, Love, Hate & Propaganda. She also appeared as an expert on the BBC Radio 4
programme Making History on 1 March 2011 to discuss satire and anti-fascist propaganda, and on The One Show
on 9 May 2011 to discuss public and media reactions to Rudolf Hess
's 1941 parachute landing.
Durham University
The University of Durham, commonly known as Durham University, is a university in Durham, England. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...
.
Before becoming a university lecturer, she had intended to use her historical training to work in heritage
Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations...
, but changed her mind after a student at the University of Kent
University of Kent
The University of Kent, previously the University of Kent at Canterbury, is a public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom...
told her, 'You have been an inspiration to all of us! You should be teaching!'
In 2007, she was appointed a National Teaching Fellow
National Teaching Fellowship
The Higher Education Academy's National Teaching Fellowship scheme recognises and rewards individual excellence in teaching in higher education in England and Northern Ireland. Fifty awards are made annually. The scheme began in 2000, with total funding per year of £2.5 million.-External links:***...
. She is also a member of the Council for the International Association of Media and History and is on the editorial board of their academic journal, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
Her interest in using new learning technologies has influenced others within Durham University, and in other institutions. Notably, she contributed a case study to the National Blackboard Conference, chaired by Lord Dearing.
Her most significant published work is Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II (2007), in which she compares the use of cinema in propaganda in Britain and Germany in the Second World War.
Media appearances
Jo Fox appeared as an expert for some of the episodes of the 2010 CBC TelevisionCBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
documentary, Love, Hate & Propaganda. She also appeared as an expert on the BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
programme Making History on 1 March 2011 to discuss satire and anti-fascist propaganda, and on The One Show
The One Show
The One Show is a topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD, hosted by Alex Jones and Matt Baker. Chris Evans joins Jones to present the programme on Friday...
on 9 May 2011 to discuss public and media reactions to Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s...
's 1941 parachute landing.
Monographs
- Filming Women in the Third Reich Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000. ISBN 9781859733967
- Review, German Quarterly . German Quarterly, Winter, 2003, vol. 76, no. 1, p. 121-122.
- Review, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Oct 2001 v21 i4 p417
- Review, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Oct 2005 v25 i4 p647(7)
- Review, CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries July–August 2001 v38 i11-12 p1968(1)
- Review, Times Higher Education Supplement March 2, 2001 i1476 p30(1)
- Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II ) Oxford ; New York : Berg, , 2007. ISBN 9781859738917
- Review, American Historical Review April 2008 v113 i2 p567(2)
- Review, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television March 2008 v28 i1 p80(3)
- Review, CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Oct 2007 v45 i2 p288(2)
Other works
- '"Heavy hands and light touches": approaches to the study of cinematic culture in the Third Reich', History Compass 1 (2003)
- 'Resistance and the Third Reich', Journal of Contemporary HistoryJournal of Contemporary HistoryThe Journal of Contemporary History is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of twentieth-century history. It was established in 1966 by Walter Laqueur and George L. Mosse and is now published quarterly by Sage Publications and edited by Richard J...
39 (2004) - 'Winston Churchill and the "men of destiny": reflections on leadership and the role of the Prime Minister in the British wartime feature films', in Richard Toye & Julie Gottlieb (eds.), Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics (2005)
- '"The mediator": images of radio in wartime feature film in Britain and Germany', in Mark Connelly & David Welch (eds.), War and the Media. Reportage and Propaganda 1900-2003 (2005)
- 'John Grierson, his "documentary boys" and the British Ministry of Information, 1939-1942', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and TelevisionHistorical Journal of Film, Radio and TelevisionThe Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is an academic journal dedicated to the study of media history. It is published quarterly by Routledge on behalf of the International Association for Media and History. The current editor-in-chief is James Chapman ....
25 (2005) - 'Millions Like Us? Accented Language and the "Ordinary" in British Films of the Second World War', Journal of British StudiesJournal of British StudiesThe publication of the , The Journal of British Studies is an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press aimed at scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages through the present. JBS presents scholarly articles and book reviews from renowned international authors who share...
45 (2006) - 'German cinema and the United Kingdom, 1933-45', in Roel Vande Winkel & David Welch (eds.), Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of the Third Reich Cinema (2007)
- 'A thin stream issuing through closed lock gates' : German cinema and the United Kingdom, 1933-45 in Winkel, Roel Vande, and David Welch. Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- '"Everyday Heroines": Heroic motherhood in Nazi film - Mutterliebe (1939) and Annelie (1941)', Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 35 (2009)
- "Jana F. Bruns. Nazi Cinema's New Women".The American Historical Review 115, no. 4: 1240-.(2010)
- 'Propaganda and the Flight of Rudolf Hess, 1941-45', Journal of Modern History 83 (2011)