Group
Media and Film Cultures
Unit(s) of assessment: English Language and Literature
Research theme: Safety and Security of Citizens and Society
School: School of Arts and Humanities
Overview
This research group engages with creative and innovative approaches to contemporary critical theory and cultural studies with particular focus on film, media, arts, gender/sexuality, and commons/commoning. The expertise of the group members ranges from LGBTQI+ film/arts to Asian cinemas, from digital media cultures to contemporary European film.
Publications
- Çakırlar, C. (ed.) 2024. Transnational Horror, Folklore, and Cultural Politics. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, under contract, forthcoming.
- Çakırlar, C. and Needham, G. 2023. “Queer relay in postmillennial British cinema (2000-2020)”, in Inzerillo, A. (ed.), Atlas of contemporary queer cinema: Europe 2000-2020 / Atlante del cinema queer contemporaneo Europa 2000-2020. Milan: Meltemi Editore, pp. 147-176.
- Çakırlar, C. (with Akçalı, E. & Güçlü, Ö.) 2022. Mustang: Translating Wilful Youth. London: Routledge.
- Barker, T.A.C. and Lee, N.J.Y. 2022. What is an auteur? Hŏ Yŏng/Hinatsu Eitarō/Huyung between (post)colonial Indonesia, Japan, and Korea.In: N.A. Kwon, T. Odagiri and M. Baek, eds., Theorizing colonial cinema: reframing production, circulation, and consumption of film in Asia. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, pp. 163-185.
- Wittel, A. 2012. Digital Marx: toward a political economy of distributed media. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 10 (2), pp. 313-333.
- Wittel, A. 2011. Qualities of sharing and their transformations in the digital age. International Review of Information Ethics, 1-8.
- Hardy, Francesca. 2021. Vital Resonances: Encountering Film with Varda, Haneke and Nancy, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Çakırlar, C. 2020. “Ameliorative Homecomings: Framing the Queer Migrant in A Sinner in Mecca (2015) and Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? (2016)”, The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums and Culture 1(1): 245-263.
- Çakırlar, C. & Needham, G. 2020. “The Monogamous/Promiscuous Optics in Contemporary Gay Film: Registering the Amorous Couple in Weekend (2011) and Paris 05:59: Theo & Hugo (2016)”, New Review of Film and Television Studies 18(4): 402-437.
- Lee, N.J.-Y. and Stringer, J., 2018. From 'screenwriting for sound' to film sound maps: the evolution of live tone's creative alliance with Bong Joon-ho. The New Soundtrack, 8 (2), pp. 145-159. ISSN 2042-8855
Group lead
The Media and Film Cultures research group is lead by Dr Cüneyt Çakırlar.
Staff within the group also support a number of PhD students.