Dr Terence McSweeney is the co-editor of the upcoming Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film (Wallflower, 2012) and has written and published on a diverse range of topics connected to film, literature and history.
Terence received his PhD from the University of Essex for his work on the Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky but his interests in film are broad, they encompass film theory, Russian and South Korean film, memory, genre studies and Classical/contemporary Hollywood. An article he has written on John Hilcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is about to be published in Journal of Film and Video.
In the last few years he has published ‘Apocalypto Now: A New Millennial Pax Americana in Crisis?’ in K. Patrick-Hart and A. Holba, (eds.) Media and the Apocalypse Anthology (New York: Peter Lang 2009) and ‘Land of The Dead: George Romero’s Vision of a Post 9/11 America’ in J. Birkenstein (ed) Re-Framing 9/11: Popular Culture and The War on Terror. (Duke University Press, 2010). He is currently completing his first book Contemporary American Cinema: 9/11 Frames per Second which he hopes will be released in 2012.