Hartlepool College of FE

Faculty Member, Media / Independent Researcher

Holds a PhD in Media Arts from Royal Holloway, University of London (supervisor Prof. Stella Bruzzi).

About

My research interests and publications centre on costume, fashion and gender representation in contemporary popular culture - especially film and TV drama and their intersections with magazines, advertising, photography and new media.

I am currently writing a monograph entitled: Fashion & Film: Gender, Costume and Stardom in Contemporary Cinema (Berg) and in the early stages of developing a co-edited interdisciplinary collection on Fashioning Transmedia Television: Designers, Texts and Audiences.

Other forthcoming work includes:
'Fragmenting the Black Male Body: Will Smith, Cinema, Clothing and Desire' in Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture.  Body Parts Special Issue. Berg,Vol 16 Issue 2. June 2012.

'Long coats, flowing fabrics: fashioning masculinity and desire in film and television' (focusing on  BBC's Sherlock and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes). In Victoria Kelley and Glenn Adamson (eds.) Surface Tensions: Surface, Finish and the Meaning of Objects. Manchester University Press, 2013. Manuscript currently under peer review.

'Transatlantic Transformation: Gwyneth Paltrow, consistency, fragmentation and the All American Girl'. In Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson (eds.) Fashion Cultures - Volume 2. Routledge, forthcoming.  Chapter in development.


Existing publications

'Heaving Cleavages and Fantastic Frock Coats: Gender Fluidity, Celebrity and Tactile Transmediality in Contemporary Costume Cinema' in Film, Fashion and Consumption Journal. Vol 1 No1 Intellect, Feb 2011.
Available at:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=1960/

‘Performing Post-feminist Identities: Gender, Costume and Transformation in Teen Cinema' in Mel Waters (ed.) Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture. Palgrave, 2011.

‘Fashioning Masculinity and Desire in Torchwood’ in Andrew Ireland (ed.) Illuminating "Torchwood": Essays On Narrative, Character and Sexuality in the BBC Series (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy). McFarland, 2010.

'Branding the New Bond: Daniel Craig and Designer Fashion'  in Jack Becker, Robert G. Weiner and Lynn Whitfield(eds) James Bond in Popular and World Culture: The Films Are Not Enough.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 

‘Get Me an Exit: Mobile Phones and Transforming Masculinity in the Matrix Trilogy’ in Ruby Cheung & David Fleming (eds.) Cinema, Identities and Beyond. Cambridge Scholars’ Publishing, 2009.

‘Becoming Neo: Costume and Transforming Masculinity in the Matrix films’ in Peter Mc Neil, Vicki Karaminas and Catherine Cole (eds.) Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television. Berg, 2009.

Teaching Women and Film. BFI, 2003.

'Gwyneth Paltrow' in Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson (eds.) Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. Routledge, 2000.

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