Faculty Member, Film, Theatre, and Television
About
My research is broadly concerned with the relationships between aesthetics and the politics of representation in cinema. I am particularly interested in constructions of the body and physicality in post-studio mainstream and independent US cinema, in relation to gender, ethnicity, sexuality and nationality, and to notions of power and trauma. A second strand of my research explores popular cinema's interactions with digital media. My current book project explores the challenges that digital elements of the film frame pose for interpretation.
I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students to work on any aspect of post-classical US cinema (independent or mainstream), including film style, digital imaging technologies and special effects, the representation of gender, ethnicity or sexuality, and the politics of film genres. I am also interested in supervising research on the construction of the body and corporeality in cinema.
