Personal profile
History of the Leicester Film Society, British cinema history, British silent film festival and silent cinema, gender and equality in the film industry, use of archive film in exhibition, film education and public engagement.
Research group affiliations
Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI)
Research interests/expertise
- Film education and engagement, cultural impacts of film archives
- Film societies - the history of the Leicester Film Society
- British silent film
- Gender and equality in the film industry
Areas of teaching
- Film history and theory
- Hollywood and the film studios
- Disney
- Cult Cinema
- Film Festivals
- Media
- Gender and Identity
- Film Industry Now! British cinema
Qualifications
BA Hons Communication Studies
Courses taught
- Film1000 Introduction to Film Studies
- Disney
- Cult Cinema
- The Business of the film studios
- The Film Industry now
- Media
- Gender & Identity
Projects
The history of the Leicester Film society - cataloguing and digitising the archive.
Current research students
Abigail Remmer PhD, 2nd supervisor
ORCID number
0000-0001-8558-6108