Kristiene Clarke
kristiene.clarke@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.edu/academia.edu/KristieneClarkewww.imdb.com/name/nm0164865/
Research project: I am researching non-fiction film genre, and investigating the intersection between event, creative treatment, documentary practice and the fictualizing of factual subject matter for audience entertainment.
Other research interests: I am a documentary practitioner whose films have won awards at many international film festivals; I teach moving image production at the University of Kent; I organized the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival 2011, a 3-day programme of screenings, film workshops and professional master-classes.
Terry Comer
t.comer@uea.ac.ukSubject of research project: Location as character in British crime drama
Other research interests: criminality in British film
Carolyn Ellam
c.ellam@uea.ac.uk | http://uea.academia.edu/CarolynEllamResearch project: The critical reception of fantasy film within the context of British cinema
Other research interests: genre theory; historical reception studies; film and television criticism; contemporary fantasy, horror and science fiction
Benjamin W.L. Derhy Kurtz
B.Derhy-Kurtz@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/BenjaminDerhyKurtzwww.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/researchers/mirr/researcher/758
Research project: The discourses of success within the transatlantic, anglophone television industry. (By offering industry-based knowledge and perspective, this research aims at better understanding how such a subjective notion as success, can actually be delineated, quantified, or even forecasted. It then intends to uncover which criteria are considered as inducing success in the eyes of TV industry practitioners. Finally, by studying the discourses themselves, this thesis endeavours to find a relevant way to classify them, thereby mapping-out the main currents of thought among members of the television industry.)
Other research interests: television industry; television series; 'success'; industrial sociology; qualitative interviews; interpretive organizational research; production research; international distribution; cult; mainstream; genre; fandom; audience research
Francis Dyson
f.dyson@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/FrancisDysonResearch project: The emergence of the first generation of amateur cine-clubs in the UK
Other research interests: amateur film, film history, film and history, British cinema
Hannah Ellison
h.ellison@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/HannahEllisonResearch project: The gendering of knowledge in contemporary US TV crime drama 2005-2010
Other research interests: television genre; American teen TV; TV crime drama
Stephanie Fuller
stephanie.fuller@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/StephanieFullerResearch project: The US-Mexico border in 1950s Hollywood film
Other research interests: border studies; material culture; literature; film history; American culture; cold war; national identities; cultural studies; thing theory; cartography
Timothy Jones
timothy.g.jones@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/TJonesResearch project: Indian animation- community and cultural practice. Reflexive analysis of local and global practices; the formation and evolution of both community structures cultural norms that are shaping the Indian animation industry.
Other research interests: Indian media culture and cultural industries - Bollywood; technocultural practice; South and East Asian animation; British stop-motion animation; Animation theory; Interactive and immersive media education and cognitive training; Avant-Garde cinema - cinema and poetry
Melanie Kennedy
melanie.kennedy@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/MelanieKennedySubject of Research project: Noughties Tweenpics and Television Shows and 'Generation Z'
Other research interests: femininity; feminism; film studies; gender; generations; girlhood; postfeminist popular culture; stardom and celebrity; teenpics and teen TV; tweens; youth
Bingting Liu
b.liu@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/BingtingLiuResearch project: Film Imports and Cultural Policy in Mainland China since the 1990s
Other research interests: Mainland Chinese film industry; domestic film market in mainland China; Chinese cinema audiences; Chinese foreign media policy; Sino-U.S. cultural trade
Richard McCulloch
r.mcculloch@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/RMcCullochResearch project: The critical reception of Pixar Animation Studios: Branding, taste cultures, and consensus
Other research interests: Audience and reception studies; taste; film and television criticism; media paratexts; web studies; comedy; fandom; contemporary Hollywood animation
Stephen Mitchell
stephen.mitchell@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/StephenMitchellResearch project: A Deconstructive Study of American National Identity in Contemporary Independent Cinema
Other research interests: Film theory; American independent cinema; Jacques Derrida; narrative; deconstruction; cultural studies; continental philosophy; national Identity
Claire Mortimer
claire.mortimer@uea.ac.ukResearch project: Female comedy actors in British film and tv comedy in the 1940s-60s, with particular interest in the older woman
Other research interests: Performance; film aesthetics; British film; film and tv comedy; Alexander Mackendrick; romantic comedy
Tom Phillips
t.phillips@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/TomPhillipsResearch project: Confessions of a PeepingTom: Kevin Smith frandom and online "community"
Other research interests: Fan studies; contemporary celebrity; transmedia; film and television comedy; web studies
Nick Preston
n.preston@uea.ac.uk http://vimeo.com/21294338Research project: Why the cult film maker Sam Raimi has not been constructed as an auteur like his contemporaries in horror
Other research interests: photography of Cindy Sherman; artists Jake and Dinos Chapman's work; Philip K. Dick books; George A. Romero films; Sam Raimi films
Elizabeth Rawitsch
e.rawitsch@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/ElizabethRawitschResearch project: Mapping “a United States of the World”: The role of the Far East in Frank Capra’s construction of American identity
Other research interests: national cinema; auteur studies; film history; american history and culture; race and ethnicity
Adam Scales
a.scales@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/AdamChristopherScalesResearch project: Identity in Crisis: Sexuality and the Slasher Film. (My thesis places the slasher film in relation to broader debates around homosexuality and other cinematic attempts to 'handle' the issue in the 1970s and 80s. I intend to reconstruct a sense of the discourses surrounding queer sexualities and how these have been adopted in the emergence and establishment of the slasher film.)
Other research interests: horror film; gender studies; identity politics; cultural theory; politics of taste and American reality television
Phillip Smith
Phillip.Smith@uea.ac.ukResearch project: American cinema serials, their audiences and exhibition
Research interests: Tom Wintringham - writer, poet, military and political theorist; film in the Spanish Civil War; newsreels and their audiences; British film serials; children's cinema clubs; Tijuana Bibles - pornographic comics and 1930s celebrity culture; Mary Field, film maker; relational frame theory and behaviourist approaches to film; early British anime audiences and distribution
Rhys Owain Thomas
Rhys.Thomas@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/RhysThomasResearch project: My PhD research explores recent developments in American Telefantasy - particularly how the increasingly popular figure of the liminal human subject facilitates the exploration of personal identity in the 21st century. Using Arnold Van Gennep’s concept of liminality as developed by Victor Turner, I examine the concept as it is embodied by certain characters in recent examples of American telefantasy – Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, and Dollhouse.
Other research interests: cultural theory, British film and television, television genre; gender and sexuality
Rachel Mizsei Ward
r.mizsei-ward@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/RachelMizseiWardResearch project: A World of Difference: Media translations of fantasy worlds
Other research interests: transmedia; cult film; Hong Kong action/ martial arts film; table-top role-playing and computer games and gaming; images of Barack Obama
Ellen Wright
E.Wright1@uea.ac.ukResearch project: Pin-Up Girls: Hollywood glamour, female agency and British wartime audiences from 1939 to 1949
Other research interests: hollywood cinema 1920-1950; star studies; film star tie-ups; film and burlesque; female film noir representations
Jonathan Wroot
J.Wroot@uea.ac.uk | http://eastanglia.academia.edu/JonathanWrootResearch project: The distribution and marketing of Japanese films on DVD in the UK
Other research interests: Japanese and Asian film; DVD and new media; genre; remakes; reception studies
