I have worked at Canterbury Christ Church University since 2001 as a sessional member of staff, and since 2003 as a full-time lecturer.
Mr Eddie McMillan
Senior Lecturer
School of Creative Arts & Industries
I'm a Senior Lecturer in Film Production, specializing in practical production, editing, and theory-practice. Also, I coordinate Media Suite operations.
I have worked in education for several years at university level and have taught various areas of film and media production, including editing and post-production, sound recording and design, production management and cinematography.
Research interests
- Editing: Theory and Practice
- Michael Powell and the Neo-Romantic Landscape
- Independent and Exploitation cinema
- Film Noir and the Tragic Inheritance
Research Projects
- Is it only possible to understand real world events through the prism of fictional narrative?. Researcher(s): Miss Sally Cleverley. Supervisor(s): Professor Agnes Gulyas, Mr Eddie McMillan. [Postgraduate Research Project]
- The title will depend on the candidate's revisions, but something such as "The Production and Meaning of A Canterbury Tale" would be a good starting point.. Researcher(s): Mr Darren Hinkley. Supervisor(s): Mr Eddie McMillan, Professor Alastair Borthwick. [Postgraduate Research Project]
- They need to think this through.. Researcher(s): Mr Karl Pearce. Supervisor(s): Mr Eddie McMillan, Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido. [Postgraduate Research Project]
HEA Senior Fellow
Knowledge exchange projects and activities:
2001- A Pilgrims Return documentary by Nick Burton and Eddie McMillan
2004 – ‘Locating Powell’ One day conference at CCUC
2004 – Film Festival marking the 60th anniversary of the World-premiere - in Canterbury - of Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale.
2004 – 2005 - Exhibition - ‘A Canterbury Tale, Michael Powell and the Neo-Romantic Landscape’ Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
2005 – Symposium Panel at International Powell Festival at Bangor, Wales2006 – A Pilgrims Return released on DVD in North America (Via Criterion)
2006 - A Pilgrims Return released in mainland Europe (Via L'institute Lumiere)
2007 – A Canterbury Tale screened at the Cathedral - I was involved with connecting the BBC to various Powell people for interview etc.
2007 – Inaugural Nick Burton Memorial Lecture with Thelma Schoonmaker Powell
2008 – Eddie McMillan and Bryan Hawkins visit the set of Scorsese film ‘Shutter Island' in Boston USA
2008 - Thelma Schoonmaker-Powell Fellowship lecture at CCCU Dept. Of Media
2009 – Powell banners installed in the Powell Building at CCUC
2009 – Second Nick Burton Memorial Lecture with Professor Ian Christie
2010 – A Sense Sublime – Film and Landscape in Kent. 4 lectures/screenings celebrating Powell/The Archers
2010 – Third Nick Burton Memorial Lecture with Professor Brian Winston
2011 - Common Wealth and Landscape - An exploration of film and traditions of landscape. 4 lectures/screenings celebrating Powell/The Archers
2013 - Landscape and Vision. Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale 1944 - 2014 Film Essay. Research Seminar/Screening
2016 - Our eyes see very little and very badly...the microscopic as space, place and metaphor in Murnau's Nosferatu. Film Essay
2017 - Camera Machine. Leo Marks, Michael Powell and Peeping Tom. Film Essay
2024-25 - 'You have to dig to find out about people as well as roads'. Documentary of Powell and Pressburger's 'A Canterbury Tale'. In Production.