Communications

Biographical Details:

Worked as 'project Engineer' with Ericsson for 4 years - having left Ireland with an Arts Degree. Then moved fulltime into Education working at Northampton College and Luton University - before moving back home to DCU.

Research Interests:

Film Ecology New Media Creative Writing

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

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• Brereton, Pat. 2011. Media Representations of Nature and Suicide in Irish Film: A reading of Disco Pigs, On the Edge and Garage. Rea: Religion, Education And The Arts, 8, pp28-46.
• Brereton P. 2010. Conference Review: MIT6, Stone and Papyrus: Storage and Transmission. Journal Of Research Into New Media Technologies, 16, 2, pp245-252.
• Brereton, Pat. 2010. Postmodern Science Fiction and Ecology [Postmodernistyczne kino fantastycznonaukowe a ekologia]. Panoptikum, no9, 16, pp30-55.
• Brereton, Pat and Michael Higgins. 2010. Editorial to special issue of Cultural Studies on Ireland. Journal Of Cultural Studies, 24 no.6,
• Brereton, Pat and Phelan, Sean. 2010. Neither With You or Against You: Irish Cultural Representations of America after September 11. Journal Of Cultural Studies, 24 no. 6, , pp851-867.
• McDonagh P, Brereton P. 2010. Screening Not Greening: An Ecological Reading of the Greatest Business Movies. Journal Of Macromarketing, , pp1-14.
• Brereton P. 2009. Hollywood Representations of Irish Journalism: A Case Study of Veronica Geurin. Irish Communications Review, 11, , pp104-114.
• Brereton P. 2009. Poverty and Environment in Films set in Africa. Media Development, 2, 2, pp57-61.
• Brereton P. 2009. Branding Irish Cinema: Reflections upon Celtic Consumer Society and Social Change in Dublin. Irish Marketing Review, 20, 2, pp27-39.
• Brereton P. 2008. Religion and Irish Cinema. Studies, 97, 387, pp321-332.
• Brereton P. 2008. Ireland's America: a case study of Sheridan's In America (2002) and Get Rich or Die Tryin (2005). Studies In European Cinema, 5, 1, pp45-53.
• Brereton P. 2007. editorial. Journal Of Research Into New Media Technologies, 13, number 2, pp115-117.
• Brereton P, O'Connor B. 2007. Pleasure and Pedagogy: The Consumption of DVD Add-ons Among Irish Teenagers. Journal Of Research Into New Media Technologies, 13, 2, pp143-156.
• Brereton, P. 2006. Nature, Tourism and Irish Film. Irish Studies Review, 14, 4, pp407-420.
• Brereton, P. 2006. New Media - New Pleasure?. International Journal Of Cultural Studies, 9, 1, pp63-82.
• Brereton, P. 2001. Aesthetics and Ecology: Utopianism and Fascist Aesthetics - An appreciation of 'Nature' in Documentary/Fiction Film. , pp33-50.

Selected Books

• Brereton, Pat. Smart Cinema: DVD add-ons and new Audience Pleasures, Palgrave Press, 2012.
• Dr Roddy Flynn and Dr Pat Brereton. Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema, Scarecrow Press, 2007.
• Pat Brereton. Hollywood Utopia:Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema, Intellect Press, 2004.
• Brereton, Pat. Continuum Guide to Media Education, Continuum Press, 2001.

Selected Chapters

• Brereton, Pat. 2013. Appreciating the Views: Filming Nature; Into the Wild, Grizzly Man, and Into the West. , pp213-232.
• Brereton, Pat. 2012. Teaching with DVD Add-ons. Teaching Film, pp364-375.
• Brereton, Pat. 2012. Digital Impacts on Documentary in Ireland. Documentary in a Changing State: Ireland Since the 1990s, pp124-134.
• Pat Brereton. 2011. 'Ecology as a concept' and 'environmental education'. Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues [4 volumes], pp408-411/459.
• Pat Brereton. 2009. Farming on Irish Film: An eclogical reading. Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature, pp185-202.
• Pat Brereton. 2009. Ireland's America: A Case Study of Sheridan's In America (2002) and Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005). Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television, pp370-384.
• Dr Pat Brereton. 2007. Characteristics of Contemporary Irish Film. Mapping Irish Media: Critical Explorations, pp157-172.

Reviews

• Brereton, Pat. 2012. MIT7: Unstable Platforms - The Promise and the Peril of Transition: 13-15th may 2011 MIT USA. Convergence, 18, pp231-239.
• Bruce Bennett, Marc Furstenau and Adrian MacKenzie (eds). 2009. Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices . Journal Of Research Into New Media Technologies, 15, pp484-486.
• Mary P Corcoran and Perry Share [eds]. 2008. Belongings: Shaping Identity in Modern Ireland: A Critical Appraisal. Studies, 97, pp344-346.
• Andrew Murphie and John Potts. 2004. Review of Culture and Technology. Journal Of Research Into New Media Technologies, 10 no.2, pp117-118.
• Jay David Bolter & Richard Grusin. 2000. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Journal Of Research Into New Media Technologies, vol 6 no.2,
• Martin Barker. 2000. From Ants to Titanic: Reinventing Film Analysis. Journal Of American Studies, www.film-philosophy.com,
• Tim Armstrong. 1998. Modern Technology and the Body. Journal Of American Studies, vo, 5 no.2... Borderlines: Studies in American Culture,
• Danielle Cliche (eds). 1997. Cultural Ecology: The Changing Dynamics of Communication. Journal Of Research Into New Media Technologies, vol 8. no. 3,
• Stephen Fender (ed). 1997. American and European National Identities: Faces in the Mirror. Journal Of American Studies, vol 1- Over Here: European Journal of American Studies,

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Brereton, Pat. 2012. British-Irish Representations on TV, Beyond the Troubles: A Case study of EastEnders and Father Ted. MEJ: Media Educaitonal Journal, pp4-7.
• Dr pat brereton. 2012. Editorial of special Irish issue of MEJ. pp2-3.
• Brereton, Pat. 2009. Bertie: The TV series. www. Estudiosirlandes.org Spanish/Irish media review,
• Brereton, Pat. 2009. Documentary Realism and Fundamentalist Religion in Ireland. REA: Religion, Education and the Arts, pp1-16.
• Dr pat brereton. 2009. . Media Education Journal, 10, pp36-37.
• Brereton, Pat. 2008. Religion on Television Review. www.estudiosirelandeses.org,
• Pat Brereton. 2008. Classic Irish Films and their Diasporic Audiences: DVD extras as Source Material. MEJ Media Education Journal, pp7-13.
• Brereton, Pat. 2007. Ecology and Film. Echidistante Journal published by European Institute Press in Romania, 2 (50), pp195-204.
• Brereton, Pat. 2007. Busting the Boom: The Tiger's Tail and the Pope's Children. www.estudiosirelandese.org,
• Brereton, Pat. 2004. The Sublime in Hollywood Film: Promoting an Ecological Agenda!. Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society, *, pp1-15.
• Pat Brereton. 2004. War Movies: Post 9/11. Left Curve see www.leftcurve.org, no 28 Spring issue, pp57-65.

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• Pat Brereton, Science Communication and Film, ECREA - European Media conference, - , Hamburg Germany
• Pat Brereton, Teaching Irish Smart Cinema, MIT New Media Conference, - , Boston
• Brereton, Pat, Sustainability Panel, French Marketing Association, 09-MAY-12 - 11-SEP-12, Brest France
• Pat Brereton, Pixar's UP as Eco-cinema, In: Ongoing - will be published ed.Eco-cinema and Affect [invited Symposium in Munich , 20-MAY-11 - 24-MAY-11, Munich
• Pat Brereton, Cities for Children, Cities for Children, 11-APR-11 - 11-APR-11, Dublin City Council
• Brereton, Pat, Sacred Space and Irish Film: A study of the documentaries of John T. Davis and Alan Gilsenan, 13th Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture. , 20-OCT-06 - 22-OCT-06, University of Sterling, Scotland
• Brereton, Pat, DVD add-and and Film Teaching, INTERNATIONALISING MEDIA STUDIES: Imperatives and Impediments. University of Westminster , 15-SEP-06 - 15-SEP-06, London
• Brereton, Pat, The Everyday Sacred [Panel discussion] with case study of films of Jim Sheridan, SCMS Society of Film and Televisiona and New Media, 28-FEB-06 - 04-MAR-06, Vancouver, Canada
• Brereton, Pat, DVD add-on's: Teaching Film, Society for Cinema and Media Studies [SCMS] International Conference [see www.cmstudies.org], 31-MAR-05 - 03-APR-05, London
• Brereton, Pat, Tourism and Irish Film, International Conference of Literature and Film, 27-JAN-05 - 30-JAN-05, Florida State University. USA
• Pat Brereton, Irish Animation and Disney, The Local and the Global: Contested Terrains. Joint Faculty Conferenc e, 24-SEP-04 - 25-SEP-04, DCU
• Pat Brereton, Nature and the Environmental Imagination: Film and Tourism in Kerry/Ireland, Killarney 250 Film Summer School, 11-JUN-04 - 13-JUN-04, Killarney Co. Kerry
• Pat Brereton, The Sublime in Hollywood Film: Promoting and Ecological Agenda [To be published in Year book], Truth and the Reel: Irish Philosophical Society, 20-APR-04 - 20-APR-04, Maynooth University
• Pat Brereton, Media Literacy in Ireland, Media Literacy - An EU funded Symposium, 02-MAR-03 - 03-MAR-02, Reading UK
• Pat Brereton, Spielberg and Special Effects, Spectacle of the Real - film and TV conference, 25-JAN-03 - 26-JAN-03, Brunuel University London
• Pat Brereton , Media Audiences and Irish Film: with case study of Into the West and Disco Pigs, Keeping It Real: Irish Film, 19-APR-02 - 21-APR-02, University College Dublin
• Pat Brereton 'Post 9/11 War Movies', Joint Faculty Conference, DCU/St Pats Joint Faculty Conference, 10-FEB-02 - 12-FEB-02, St Pats Drumcondra Dublin