Research group: Screen Studies Network
A vibrant research community dedicated to screen-based disciplines including film studies, media studies and screenwriting.
About our research
About our research
We research and study a range of screen-based disciplines, including film and television studies, other media studies and practice-based screenwriting.
The network aims to:
- provide a supportive community where ideas for research can be discussed and developed
- provoke debate and discussion through seminars, webinars, public lectures, screenings, reading groups and other activities
- develop community-facing projects with a range of potential partner organisations and public platforms
Our experts work in British, American and European cinema history, gender studies, LGBTQ+ screen culture, disability studies, adaptation studies, popular culture, comedy, postcolonial and transnational film studies, and the study and practice of screenwriting.
We work with media producers, including in the School of Digital Arts.
Our research themes
Our key research themes
Our network welcomes postgraduate researchers, enquiries about potential PhD projects or other collaborations across the broad range of screen studies topics. We have particular strengths in the following areas.
Gothic and horror cinema
We have strong research interests in Gothic film, especially horror cinema, as well as Gothic themes in melodrama, science fiction and comedy. We are also interested in the ideological and political nature of the Gothic, particularly from national points of view, and the connections between aesthetics, affect and film history.
British cinema
Our British cinema research interests include the GPO Film Unit, documentary in the 1930s, the history of film censorship, the archives of the BBFC and British Film Institute, twentieth-century writers in the BBC Written Archives, Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess, Lew Grade and ITV. Cinema history is another main focus.
Disability studies and medical ethics
We research literary and cultural disability studies, the critical medical humanities and modern and contemporary literature and film. We focus on cultural representations of cognitive difference, primarily dementia and learning disability, ageing and care.
Flame (Film, languages and media in education)
FLAME is a pioneering research group dedicated to the development of research and knowledge-exchange activities in areas intersecting the pedagogies of language, culture, film, and other screen media. Specific research areas include:
- the use and application of film for language teaching and learning
- approaches to culture and interculturality through audio-visual products
- the growth and use of new technologies, such as audio-visual translation
- UX (user experience) research for the development of TESOL and Modern Foreign Languages teacher training and resources
- the study of transmedia literacies, narratives and practices
- transnational cinema and popular screen media
Our members belong to academic institutions across the globe, bringing connections and collaborations through an extensive network for knowledge exchange and research impact. The group welcomes proposals for PhD projects, MA by research, and MPhil dissertations in areas related to our core research. The study of screen media in any language is welcomed, as long as the research question connects with the expertise of the group.
Events
Key publications
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Key publications
- Aldana Reyes, X (2020) Gothic Cinema, Routledge
Burke, L (2021) Hostile environments? Down’s syndrome and genetic screening in contemporary culture, Medical Humanities. 47(2), pp 193-200
Burke, L (2020) Spectres of Unproductive Life: The Aging/Disability/Dementia Complex in: The Aging/Disability Nexus, University of British Columbia Press
Burke, L (2019) Dementia and the Paradigm of the Camp: Thinking Beyond Giorgio Agamben’s Concept of ‘Bare Life’, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry,16(2), pp 195-205
Herrero, C, Requena, A and Suarez, MF (2022) Screen media in language education: towards a student-centred approach, in: Teaching Languages with Screen Media: Pedagogical Reflections and Case Studies, Bloomsbury
Herrero, C (2022) Memory and affective discourses in Pepe Mujica, Lessons from the Flowerbed (Heidi Specogna, 2015) and El Pepe: A Supreme Life (Emir Kusturica, 2018) in:Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research
Moor, A (2017) Exiles in classic British Cinema, in: I.Q. Hunter (et al) The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History, Routledge, pp 151-160
Moor, A (2018) New Gay Sincerity and Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, Film Studies 19(1), pp 4-19
Ní Fhlainn, S (2019) Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture, Palgrave
Ní Fhlainn, S (2016) There’s Something Very Familiar About All This: Time Machines, Cultural Tangents, and Mastering Time in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine and the Back to the Future trilogy, Adaptation 9(2) pp 164–184
Rahman, M (2018) Covert Communications: Food in Transition in Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 54(4), pp 484-497
Rahman, M (2021) The Horrors of Fast Fashion: Consuming the Consumer in Elza Kephart’s Slaxx, Forthcoming in Postcolonial Text, special issue on borders and diaspora, co-edited with Dr Sarah Ilott
Suarez, MF (2022) Recovering memory, reasserting Europeanness, Modern Convivencia and Hispanotropicalism in Palm Trees in the Snow (2015) and Neckan (2015) in Gergely, Gabor and Hayward, Susan (eds) Routledge Companion to European Cinema, Routledge
Suarez, MF (2021) This is not Paradise and the Journey Was not Worth it: Globalisation, Financial Crisis and the Portrayal of the Sub-Saharan Immigrant in Two Spanish Films, in Wallenbrock, B and Jacob, F (eds) Migrants’ Perspectives, Migrants in Perspective: Human Displacement in 21st Century Film, Edinburgh University Press, pp 161-185
Organisations we work with
Organisations we work with
HOME cinema
Film in Language Teaching (FILTA)
Instituto Cervantes
Superbia by Manchester Pride
Contact information
Contact us
For general enquiries about our Screen Studies Network, you can contact its leads Dr Andrew Moor and Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.