Richard Allen

Richard Allen is Chair Professor of Film and Media Art, Dean of the School of Creative Media, and Director of the Center of Applied Computing and Interactive Media, City University, Hong Kong. His research focuses primarily on the theory, poetics, and aesthetic of film. His books on theory are Projecting Illusion (Cambridge, 1995), Film Theory and Philosophy (Oxford, 1997), and Wittgenstein, Theory, and the Arts (Routledge, 2001).

He is widely known as a scholar of Hitchcock and is the author of Hitchcock’s Romantic Iron (Columbia, 1997) and fifteen scholarly articles on the master of suspense, as well as co-editor of three anthologies and the Hitchcock Annual (until 2018). He has also written extensively on Indian Cinema. His book manuscript, Double Trouble: A Poetics of Bombay Cinema, is under review, and his co-edited volume, Bombay Cinema’s Islamicate Histories (Intellect/Orient Blackswan, 2022), was nominated for the Kraszna-Krausz book award 2023.