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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 at Canterbury Christ Church University since 2001 as a sessional member of staff, and since 2003 as a full-time lecturer. 

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

  • 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.