History of Art and Film

Professor David Ekserdjian

• Italian Renaissance paintings and drawings, especially of the 16th century
• Correggio
• Parmigianino
• The Renaissance altarpiece
• Imitation in Renaissance art

Professor Martin Halliwell

• Popular Music and Film
• Representing Disability on Screen
• Literary Adaptations
• Protest Cinema 

Dr Claire Jenkins

• Contemporary Hollywood
• The family and film
• Costume/fashion in film and television

Dr Lin Feng

• Hong Kong New Wave
• New Taiwan Cinema
• Mainland Chinese cinema in the Reform Era

Dr Gozde Naiboglu

• Turkish German Cinema
• Contemporary German film

Professor James Chapman

• British cinema and television in their historical contexts
• The role of the media as propaganda
• Representation of war and history
• Cultural politics of popular fictions
• The cultural history of British comics

Professor Martin Halliwell

• Post-World War II American Film
• 1950s and 1960s American Film and Culture
• Mental Health and Film History 
• Cinema and the US Presidency

Dr Lin Feng

• The 1930s and 1940s Shanghai cinema
• Post-war Chinese film history during the Mao era
• The development of Hong Kong and Taiwan cinema in its historical and political contexts
• History of Chinese film studios 
• War, (post)colonialism and popular screen culture in and beyond China
• Censorship and the development of the Chinese film industry

Dr Gozde Naiboglu

• Film theory and philosophy
• Questions of materiality, affect and spectatorship

Dr David Christopher

• History of the Star Wars Franchise 
• Anarchist Philosophy and Cinema 
• Canadian Film and Television History 
• Indigenous or First Nations Cinema and Reconciliation

Dr Lin Feng

• Film co-production between China and America
• International filmmaking and distribution/exhibition
• Cross-cultural reception of foreign-language films in China
• Cross-cultural reception of Chinese-language films abroad

Dr David Christopher

• Transnational Cinemas and Ideology 

Dr Claire Jenkins

• Gender on screen
• Women filmmakers and women working within Hollywood

Professor Martin Halliwell

• Race, Ethnicity and American Cinema

Dr Lin Feng

• The construction of (East) Asian gender and racial image in American and British popular cinemas
• The reception of Chinese racial and gender image in the Chinese-speaking and English-speaking film markets
• The construction of whiteness in Chinese-language cinema
• Female stars and the development of feminism in China

Dr David Christopher

• Horror Film - Nostalgia and Gender Issues 

Professor David Ekserdjian

• Italian Renaissance Paintings and Drawings, especially of the 16th century
• Correggio
• Parmigianino
• The Renaissance altarpiece
• Imitation in Renaissance art

Dr Gozde Naiboglu

• Cinema, Diaspora and Migration

Dr Lin Feng

• Intra-regional migration and filmmaking in East and Southeast Asia
• Asian-Pacific mobility and Chinese diasporic cinema
• Chinese Migrant filmmakers and Sinophone cinema

Professor James Chapman

• The cultural history of British comics

Dr David Christopher

• Horror Video Games - Perception/Reception Studies and/or Ideology, Gender, and Identity Issues 
• Shakespeare on Screen and Cultural Capital 
• Guerrilla Cinema - Parody and Satire
• Zombies, COVID-19, and Panic Journalism 

Professor Martin Halliwell

• Film, Television and the American City
• Contemporary American Cities on Film

Dr Lin Feng

• East Asian cities on American and British films
• Cinematic Shanghai and Hong Kong
• Location filming and urban landscape