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Prof Mark Jancovich

Mark Jancovich
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Professor of Film Studies  M dot Jancovich at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: 2787/3564  
Registry And Council House 3.11 
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Biography

Mark Jancovich came to UEA in September 2004. He studied at Keele University, the University of Kent at Canterbury and Indiana University. He has taught at the Universities of Keele, Manchester, and Nottingham, where he founded the Institute of Film Studies. He is the co-editor of two book series; a founding member of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies; a member of several editorial and editorial advisory boards; and has been a member of research panel 2 of the AHRB, an subpanel of RAE 2008, and a member of the Executive of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association. He has been an external examiner at over ten different Universities and supervised numerous research students to the successful completion of their studies.

Mark also blogs on TV horror and fantasy at fantasticfilmtv.com.

Key Research Interests

Research interests - media and cultural theory; genre (particularly horror, pornography and the historical epic); audience and reception studies; and contemporary popular television. He is currently working on a history of American horror in the 1940s.


EXTERNAL GRANTS:

1994 British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant

300.00

1999-2000 Arts and Humanities Research Board, Major Research Grant for the Project ‘Film Consumption and the City: A Historical Case Study in the City of Nottingham

61,598.00

2000 British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant

260.00

2000 Leverhulme Trust, Research Fellowship

16,054.00

2001 British Academy, Small Research Grant

2909.00

2002 British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant

507.00

2007 AHRC, Research Leave Scheme

31,294.00

 

SERIES EDITOR:

Film Genres (with Charles Acland, Concordia University) Berg Publishing. Books in the series include:

Catherine Driscoll, Teen Film (2011);
Keith Johnson, Science Fiction (2011);
James Walters, Fantasy (2011).

Inside Popular Film (with Eric Schaefer, Boston College) Manchester University Press. Books in this series include:

Joanne Hollows and Mark Jancovich, eds., Approaches to Popular Film (1995, see below); Harry Benshoff, Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (1996); Julia Hallam and Margaret Marshment, Realism and Popular Film (2000); Jacinda Read, The New Avengers: Feminism, Femininity and the Rape-Revenge Cycle (2000); Nicole Matthews, Comic Politics: Gender in Hollywood Comedy after the New Right (2000); Thomas Austin, Hollywood, Hype and Audiences: Selling and Watching Popular Film in the 1990s (2002); Aylish Wood, Technoscience in Contemporary Film, (2002); Rachel Moseley, Growing Up With Audrey Hepburn: Text, Audience, Resonance, (2003); Paul Grainge, ed., Memory and Popular Film (2003); Mark Jancovich, Antonio Lazaro-Reboll, Julian Stringer and Andrew Willis, eds., Defining Cult Movies: the Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste, (2003); Antonio Lazaro-Reboll and Andrew Willis, eds., Spanish Popular Film (2004); Andrew Willis, Stars: Hollywood and Beyond (2004); Steven Jay Schneider, ed., New Hollywood Violence (2004); Andrew Caine, Interpreting Rock Movies (2005); Gianluca Sergi, The Dolby Era: Film Sound in Contemporary Hollywood (2005) Robert Fish, Cinematic Countrysides, (2007) Kate Egan, Trash or Treasure: Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (2007).


Research Group Members

I am a member of a major network funded by the AHRC on Middlebrow Culture.

I was founding member of the editorial collective of MOCS: The Magazine of Cultural Studies, and a member of the editorial advisory boards of Intensities: An Online Journal of Cult Media; the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies; the Journal of Horror Studies; Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies; the European Journal of American Culture; and both the Cultographies book series published by Wallflower and the Contemporary Cinema book series published by Rodopi.
I have acted as a reader for the following academic publishers: Arnold, Ashgate, Blackwells USA, Edinburgh University Press, Routledge, Macmillan, Manchester University Press, Sage, the University of Minnesota Press, the University of Illinois Press, Wallflower and Wayne State University Press. I have also acted as a reader for the following journals: Body and Society; Canadian Journal of Film Studies; Canadian Journal of History; Cinema Journal; Comparative American Studies; Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies; Environment and Planning A; European Journal of American Studies; European Journal of Archaeology; Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies; Journal of American Studies; Journal of Business Research; Popular Communication; Screen; Sociological Review.

Past Research Projects and Grants

Project Title Start Date End Date Funding Body Project Members
Digital Content Marketplace 1/1/2008 31/3/2010 Screen East Mark Jancovich, Richard Taylor
The Critical Reception of 1940's Horror 1/9/2007 31/12/2007 Arts and Humanities Research Council N/A

Number of items: 78.

Article

Jancovich, Mark (2012) Relocating Lewton: Cultural Distinctions and Generic Negotiations in the Critical Reception of the Val Lewton Horror Films. Journal of Film and Video, 64 (3). pp. 21-37. ISSN 0742-4671

Jancovich, Mark (2012) "Terrifyingly Real": Psychology, Realism and Generic Transformation in the Demise of the 1940s Horror Cycle. European Journal of American Culture, 31 (1). pp. 25-39. ISSN 14660407

Jancovich, Mark (2011) Time, Scheduling and Cinemagoing. Media International Australia, 139. pp. 88-95.

Jancovich, Mark (2011) 'Vicious Womanhood'; Genre, the 'Femme Fatale' and Postwar America. Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 19 (2). pp. 100-114. ISSN 0847-5911

Jancovich, Mark (2011) "The English Master of Movie Melodrama": Hitchcock, Horror and the Women's Film. Film International, 9 (3). pp. 51-67. ISSN 16516826

Jancovich, Mark (2010) 'Two Ways of Looking': Affection and Aversion in the Critical Reception of 1940s Horror. Cinema Journal, 49 (3). ISSN 0009-7101

Jancovich, Mark (2010) "Samuel Bronston’s Latest Epic": Spectacle, Heterogeneity and Nation in the Critical Reception of El Cid (1961). Comparative American Studies, 8 (4). pp. 300-15.

Jancovich, Mark (2010) Phantom Ladies: the War Worker, the Slacker and the "Femme Fatale". New Review of Film and Television Studies, 8 (2). pp. 164-178. ISSN 1470-0309

Jancovich, Mark (2009) "Thrills and Chills": Horror, the Woman’s Film and the Origins of Film Noir. The New Review of Film and Television, 7(2). pp. 157-171.

Jancovich, Mark (2009) Shadows and Bogeymen: Horror, Stylization and the Critical Reception of Orson Welles during the 1940s. Participations, 6(1). pp. 1-27.

Jancovich, Mark (2008) Master of Concentrated Suspense: Horror, Gender and Fantasy in Lang’s 1940s Films. Studies in European Cinema, 5(3). pp. 171-183.

Jancovich, Mark (2008) Female Monsters: Horror, the “Femme Fatale” and World War II. European Journal of American Culture, 27. pp. 133-49.

Jancovich, Mark (2008) Kulturní geografie filmové konzumpce. Iluminace: Casopis Pro Teorii, Historii a Estetiku Filmu, 1.

Denison, Rayna and Jancovich, Mark (2007) Mysterious Bodies (A Special Edition of Intensities Journal). Intensities Journal, 4.

Jancovich, Mark (2007) "An Unidentified Species": Horror, The Body and Early Television. Intensities: A Journal of Cult Media, Mysterious Bodies, Special Issue.

Jancovich, Mark (2007) Oh, the Horror. the Guardian Newspaper’s Comment is Free, November 26th.

Jancovich, Mark (2007) The Crack-Up: Psychological Realism, Generic Transformation and the Demise of the Paranoid Woman's Film. Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. ISSN 2009-0374

Jancovich, Mark, Gordon, Ian and McAllister, Matt (2006) Blockbuster Meets Superhero Comic, or Art House Meets Graphic Novel? The Contradictory Relationship between Film and Comic Art. Journal of Popular Film and Television, 34. pp. 108-114. ISSN 0195-6051

Jancovich, Mark (2005) The Meaning of Mystery: Genre, Marketing and the Universal Sherlock Holmes Series of the 1940's. Film International, 3 (17). pp. 34-45.

Jancovich, Mark (2004) Les adolescents et les indépendants: AIP et ses rivaux. Rendez-Vous Avec La Peur: Revue de Cinéma Fantastique, 1. pp. 23-35.

Jancovich, Mark (2002) Regional Film Theatres Need Clear Local Role. Urban Environment Today, 146. pp. 6-7.

Jancovich, Mark (2002) Cult Fictions: Cult Movies, Subcultural Capital and the Production of Cultural Distinctions. Cultural Studies, 16 (2). pp. 306-322.

Jancovich, Mark (2001) Placing Sex: Sexuality, Taste and Middlebrow Culture in the Reception of Playboy Magazine. Intensities: A Journal of Cult Media. pp. 1-14.

Jancovich, Mark (2001) Naked ambition: Pornography, Taste and the Problem of the Middlebrow. Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies. 0-00.

Jancovich, Mark (2000) "The Purest Knight of All": Nation, History and Representation in El Cid. Cinema Journal, 40 (1). pp. 79-103. ISSN 0009-7101

Jancovich, Mark (2000) A Real Shocker: Authenticity, Genre and the Struggle for Cultural Distinctions. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 14 (1). pp. 22-35. ISSN 1030-4312

Jancovich, Mark (1992) Modernity and Subjectivity in The Terminator: The Machine as Monster in Contemporary American Culture. The Velvet Light Trap, 30. pp. 3-17. ISSN 0149-1830

Jancovich, Mark (1992) Serial Killers and Female Heroes: Re-examining the Slasher Movie. Over Here, 12 (1). pp. 67-74. ISSN 09583105

Jancovich, Mark (1991) Robert Penn Warren as New Critic: Against Propaganda and Irresponsibility. The Southern Literary Journal, XXIV (1). pp. 53-65. ISSN 00384291

Jancovich, Mark (1990) Contemporary Communications and the Restructuring of Social, Political and Economic Life: Challenges and Problems of American Communications Studies. Over Here, 10 (1). pp. 62-69. ISSN 09583105

Jancovich, Mark (1990) An Introduction to the American Horror Novel Since 1945: Ten Key Novels. MOCS: The Magazine of Cultural Studies, 1. pp. 12-13.

Book Section

Jancovich, Mark (2012) "Psychological Thriller": British Cinema, Horror and the Cultural Contexts of Dead of Night during the 1940s. In: Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology. Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, pp. 39-53. ISBN 978-0230114500

Jancovich, Mark (2012) "A Former Director of German Horror Films”: Horror, European Cinema and the Critical Reception of Robert Siodmak’s Hollywood Career. In: European Nightmares. Wallflower, pp. 185-193. (In Press)

Jancovich, Mark (2011) Realistic Horror: Film Noir and the 1940s Horror Cycle. In: Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker. McFarland, pp. 56-69. ISBN 9780786442119

Jancovich, Mark and Johnston, Derek (2011) Genre, Special Effects and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s. In: It Came from the 1950s. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 90-107. ISBN 9780230272217

Jancovich, Mark and Snelson, Tim (2011) "No Hits, No Runs, Just Terrors": Exhibition, Cultural Distinctions and Cult Audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. In: The New Cinema History. Blackwells, pp. 199-211.

Jancovich, Mark (2010) 'An Italianmade Spectacle Film Dubbed in English': Cultural Distinctions, National Cinema and the Critical Reception of the Postwar Historical Epic. In: The Epic Film in World Culture. Routledge/American Film Institute, New York. ISBN 9780415990189

Jancovich, Mark and Snelson, Tim (2010) Horror at the Crossroads: Class, Gender and Taste at the Rialto Cinema (Times Square) in the 1940s. In: From the Art House to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century. Scarecrow. ISBN 9780810876545

Jancovich, Mark and Johnson, Derek (2009) Film and TV: the 1950s. In: The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Routledge, pp. 71-79. ISBN 041545378X

Jancovich, Mark (2008) Pale Shadows: Narrative Hierarchies in the History of 1940s Horror. In: Shifting Definitions of Genre. McFarland, pp. 15-32. ISBN 0786434309

Jancovich, Mark (2007) "Rebecca’s Ghost": Horror, the Gothic and the du Maurier Film Adaptations. In: The Daphne du Maurier Companion. Virago Press, pp. 312-319. ISBN 9781844082353

Jancovich, Mark (2007) "Cinema Comes to Life at the Cornerhouse, Nottingham": "American" Exhibition, Local Politics and Global Culture in the Reception of the Urban Entertainment Center. In: Going to the Movies. Exeter University Press, pp. 383-393. ISBN 0859898121

Jancovich, Mark (2006) Playboy, Lifestyle and Cold War Culture. In: Historicising Lifestyle. Ashgate, pp. 70-87. ISBN 0754644413

Jancovich, Mark (2005) Eine fortschrittliche Stadt und ihre Kinos: Technologie, Moderne and das Spektekel de Reichtums. In: Umwidmungen: architektonische und Kinematographische Räume. Vorwerk 8, pp. 230-244. ISBN 3930916703

Jancovich, Mark (2004) Bloody Bloody and Bloody Boring: Action, Stasis and Middlebrow Taste in the Reception of the 1950s Spectacular. In: Action and Adventure Cinema. Routledge, pp. 84-99. ISBN 0415235073

Jancovich, Mark (2004) Charlton Heston is an Axiom: Spectacle and Performance in the Development of the Blockbuster. In: Film Stars: Hollywood and Beyond. MUP, pp. 51-70. ISBN 0719056454

Jancovich, Mark (2004) Re-examining the 1950s Invasion Narratives (reprint from Rational Fears). In: Liquid Metal: The Science Film Reader. Wallflower Press, pp. 325-336. ISBN 1903364876

Jancovich, Mark and Hunt, Nathan (2004) The Mainstream, Distinctions and Cult TV. In: Cult Television. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 27-44. ISBN 0816638314

Jancovich, Mark and Faire, Lucy (2003) The Best Place to See a Film: The Blockbuster and the Transformation of Exhibition. In: Movie Blockbusters. Routledge, pp. 190-201. ISBN 0415256097

Jancovich, Mark and Lyons, James (2002) John Sayles: Independence, Integrity and the Borders of identity. In: 50 Contemporary Film Directors. Routledge, pp. 280-289. ISBN 0415189748

Jancovich, Mark (2001) A Real Shocker: Authenticity, Genre and the Struggle for Cultural Distinctions. In: The Film Cultures Reader. Routledge, pp. 469-480. ISBN 0415252822

Jancovich, Mark (2001) Genre and the Problem of Reception: Generic Classification and Cultural Distinctions in the Promotion of the Silence of Lambs. In: Horror, The Film Reader. Routledge, pp. 150-161. ISBN 0415235626

Jancovich, Mark (2000) Othering Conformity in Post-War America: Intellectuals, the New Middle Classes and the Problem of Cultural Distinctions. In: Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America. Birmingham University Press, pp. 12-28. ISBN 1902459067

Jancovich, Mark (2000) The Southern New Critics. In: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge University Press, pp. 200-218. ISBN 0521300126

Jancovich, Mark (2000) Genre and the Problem of Reception: Generic Classification and Cultural Distinctions in the Promotion of Silence of the Lambs. In: Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences. BFI Publishing, pp. 33-44. ISBN 978-0851708102

Jancovich, Mark (2000) Cult Film and Television. In: Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415162180

Jancovich, Mark (2000) Consumption. In: Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415162180

Jancovich, Mark (2000) Moral Panics. In: Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415162180

Jancovich, Mark (1995) Screen Theory. In: Approaches to Popular Film. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 121-150. ISBN 071904393X

Jancovich, Mark and Hollows, Joanne (1995) Introduction: Popular Film and Cultural Distinctions. In: Approaches to Popular Film. Manchester University Press, pp. 1-14. ISBN 071904393X

Jancovich, Mark (1992) David Morley, the Nationwide Studies. In: Reading into Cultural Studies. Routledge, pp. 134-147. ISBN 0415063779

Book

Jancovich, Mark (2008) Shifting Definitions of Genre. McFarland, p. 268. ISBN 978-0786434305

Jancovich, Mark, Gordon, Ian and McAllister, Matthew. P, eds. (2007) Film and Comic Books. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578069781

Jancovich, Mark (2007) Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748619078

Jancovich, Mark (2006) The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism (reprinted). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521416528

Jancovich, Mark (2003) Defining Cult Movies. Manchester University Press, p. 244. ISBN 071906631X

Jancovich, Mark (2003) Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans. British Film Institute Publishing, p. 204. ISBN 0851709419

Jancovich, Mark, Faire, Lucy and Subbings, Sarah (2003) The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption. British Film Institute Publishing, p. 281. ISBN 0851709427

Jancovich, Mark and Hollows, Joanne, eds. (2001) Approaches to Popular Film (Chinese Translation). Yuan-Lian Publishing, Taipei. ISBN 95732473822

Jancovich, Mark (2001) Horror, the Film Reader. Routledge, p. 188. ISBN 0415235626

Jancovich, Mark, Hollows, Joanne and Hutchings, Peter, eds. (2000) The Film Studies Reader. Arnold Publishing. ISBN 0340692790

Jancovich, Mark and Hollows, Joanne, eds. (1999) Approaches to Popular Film (Korean Translation). Hanul Publishing, Seoul. ISBN 8946026916

Jancovich, Mark (1998) Horror (Japanese Translation). Seikya-sha, Tokyo. ISBN 978-0713468205

Jancovich, Mark (1996) Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 978-0719036248

Jancovich, Mark and Hollows, Joanne, eds. (1995) Approaches to Popular Film. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 071904393X

Jancovich, Mark, ed. (1994) American Horror since 1951. The British Association of American Studies Pamphlet Series . Keele University Press, Keele. ISBN 1853311499

Jancovich, Mark (1993) The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0521416523

Jancovich, Mark (1992) Horror. Batsford Cultural Studies . B T Batsford Ltd, Batsford. ISBN 9780713468205

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External Activities and Indicators of Esteem

  • Member - sub panel 47 of RAE 2008 (2005-2008)
  • Member - Research panel 2, AHRC (2004-2008)
  • Member - Executive Committee of the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (2005 onwards)
  • Vice-Chair of the Film Studies section of the European Communication Research and Education Association
  • External Assessor for the AHRC; The Leverhulme Trust; The British Academy; The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), The Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship Scheme; The Research Foundation, Flanders & The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Nominated - Expert Panel of the European Reference Index for the Humanities
  • External Assessor at - Brunel; Indiana; Liverpool; Northumbria at Newcastle; University College, London; Westminster & York
  • Assessor - applications for tenure at - Case Western Reserve University; Indiana University, The University of South Florida & The University of North Texas
  • External member, appointment committee at Kings College, London (2005) and Westminster (2007)
  • MA Examiner - Birmingham (1998-2001)
  • Secretary - British Association of American Studies (Midland Branch)
  • Committee Member - The Humanities and Social Science Strategy Group
  • Committee Member - The University Research Systems Project Group
  • Committee Member - The University Research Degrees Board
  • Committee Member - The University Research Portals Content Board
  • Committee Member - The University Web Steering Group

Key Responsibilities

Professor Jancovich is currently Head of the School of Film and Television Studies.

Administrative Posts/Responsibilities

  • Director of Research (2004-2007)
  • Director of Admissions (2004-2007)
  • Director of Research Students (2005-2006)
  • Diretor of MA Programmes (2005-2006, second semester)
  • Humanities Research Committee (2004-2007)
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