CATH Postgraduates

Eve Bennett

Eve Bennett is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the Cinema and Television History Research Centre at De Montfort University, researching post-9/11 American apocalyptic television. While studying for her MA in Cult Film and Television, she worked as the administrator and research assistant at the Brunel University Cult Film Archive. In the course of this role, she administered the first Cine-Excess conference and contributed research to several documentaries and books, including The Cult Film Reader.

Jilly Boyce Kay

Jilly Boyce Kay is a funded PhD student at De Montfort University, researching representations of feminism on British television in different historical and institutional contexts. Previously, she taught for three years at the University of the West of England, Bristol on Journalism and Media & Cultural Studies awards; she also received her MA in Journalism (with distinction) here. Additionally, her research interests include political, feminist and postcolonial theory; British politics and political journalism; gender history; and media history.

Dieter Declercq

Dieter Declercq studied Western literature and philosophy at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and is interested in philosophy as an existential discipline. For him, philosophy is an attitude of critical self-investigation and social criticism. He considers humour to be key to this (self-)critical philosophical attitude and devotes his research to the elaboration of this topic. He is working on this subject in his MA by Research in TV Comedy and the Baby Boom Generation at DMU. His dissertation will present a descriptive history and critical analysis of post-World War II (self-)critical comedy. 

 

Laura Mee

 

Laura Mee is a PhD student at De Montfort University.  Her research is funded by an AHRC Studentship Competition 2010 award. Her thesis, Re-animating Texts: Contemporary Adaptations of Anglo-American Horror Film, uses examples from contemporary Western horror cinema to explore the process of remaking as a mode of adaptation.  The study will consider the motives for remaking films, and aims to analyse the ways in which texts are adapted for and appropriated by new audiences.


In addition to American horror cinema, film remakes and adaptation, Laura’s research interests include contemporary Japanese horror cinema, cult film and fandom.

Luke Norsworthy

Luke Norsworthy is a part-time MA student at the Cinema and Television Research Centre at De Montfort University (DMU). He graduated from DMU with an Honours degree in English Literature and Media Studies in 2002 before embarking on a career as a sub-editor and proofreader with various trade publishing houses. He currently works as a Research and Innovation Adviser within the faculty of Art, Design and Humanities at DMU.

His MA examines the cultural, political and legislative impact of the 'video nasties' in Great Britain with a specific focus on Italian splatter cinema and censorship.

Alex Rock

Alex Rock is an empiricist film historian based at De Montfort University in Leicester, and is currently carrying out PhD research into the history of collaborations between the British film industry and the state from the formation of the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau in 1919 until the demise of Ealing Studios in the late Fifties.

Alex’s research interests include the history of film exhibition, British silent cinema, and the cultural history of the Black Country. He has recently written a history of the Clifton cinema chain which is awaiting publication in a forthcoming edition of Post Script, and he has also presented research at the British Silent Film Festival and at the Cinema Museum. He is scheduled to present research at the Institute of Historical Research in March 2012.

Caitlin Shaw

Caitlin Shaw is a PhD student at the Cinema and Television Research Centre at De Montfort University. In 2008, she graduated from The University of Windsor with an honours degree in English and Creative Writing, and in 2010 completed an MA in Critical Studies in Global Film Culture at The University of Western Ontario. Her PhD project examines representations of the 1980s in contemporary British film and television, considering both industrial demands that influence production and the social, political and cultural implications of representing the decade onscreen. Her current research interests include cultural appropriations of retro, historiography and post-war British society and culture.

Johnny Walker

Johnny Walker graduated from Northumbria University in 2008 (BA (Hons) English and Film Studies), and went on to complete his MA in International Film Studies at Newcastle University (Distinction) in 2009.   Currently, Johnny is a PhD student at De Montfort University, Leicester.  His thesis considers the cultural and economic contexts of British horror cinema since the year 2000.  His writing has appeared in Horror Studies, Diabolique and Scope.  Recently, he started a blog on cult visual media which can be accessed here.

Viv Chadder

Hazel Collie

Sandra Frost

Paul Gosling

Charlotte Meakin

Luke Norsworthy

Sue Porter