My research focuses on Italian cinema, horror cinema, film sound and popular African cinema. I'm particularly interested in how film sound brings together questions of films' industrial production and questions of film form, merging the contextual and the textual. Much of my work suggests that the study of film sound can therefore help us to better understand films' complex interactions with the social and historical contexts in which they were made. MyDzԴDz, Sounding Out the Giallo is forthcoming and my co-edited volume Film Exhibition: The Italian Context (with Edward Bowen, Legenda) will come out in 2024. Additional articles have appeared in Screen, Discourse, the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, Sound Studies and ’AԳٳܰ.
Prior to completing my PhD, I was a practicing non-fiction filmmaker and I specialised in making filsm for the medical and healthcare sectors. My current teaching spans film history, film theory and film practice.
- Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film, Pollard, D. 3 Nov 2025
- Film Exhibition: The Italian Context, Pollard, D., Bowen, E. 2 Sep 2024
- Introduction, Pollard, D., Bowen, E. 2 Sep 2024, Film Exhibition: The Italian Context, Cambridge, Legenda
- Rendering the Umwelt: Foley, Animal Life and Ethics, Pollard, D. 17 Sep 2024, In: The Soundtrack
- To the Cinema, and Beyond! Luigi Cozzi, Sci-Fi Exhibition and Starcrash, Pollard, D. 2 Sep 2024, Film Exhibition: The Italian Context, Cambridge, Legenda
- Embalmed Air: The Case of the Cinematic Bubble, Pollard, D. 1 Mar 2023, In: Discourse
- Notturno: An atmospheric aesthetic, Pollard, D. 1 Jun 2022, In: Journal of Italian Cinema Media Studies
- “Can’t You Hear Me?” Ideologies of the Voice in Giallo Cinema, Pollard, D. 2020, In: Screen
- Coherently Incoherent? Dario Argento’s Phenomena and the Influence of the Music Video, Pollard, D. 2020, In: L'avventura: International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes
- Radio Alice and Italy's Movement of 1977: polyvocality, sonority and space, Pollard, D. 1 Jun 2020, In: Sound Studies
- Invited talk: ‘Viva Voce! The Voice and Social History in the Sound Film’ 2025
- Hosting an academic visitor: Lee Hardcastle 2024
- Invited talk: ‘A Sound with Many Sources: The Political History of the Voice in Italian Cinema’ 2023
- Invited talk: ‘Narrating Rome, Narrating in Rome: Voice-Overs, Failed Speech and Urban Space in Mario Bava and Dario Argento’s Early Gialli’ 2021
- Invited talk: ‘“When the Time Comes, You’ll Know It by the Sound of My Voice”: Making Sense of the Voice in Giallo Cinema’ 2018
Film and Television Studies PhD June 14 2021
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