Dr Laura Hubner 

Programme Leader - Film Studies 

Arts 

Laura.Hubner@winchester.ac.uk 

+44 (0) 1962 827204 

The University of Winchester
Winchester
Hampshire
SO22 4NR

Expertise

Scandinavian and European films; fairytale and gothic horror; cult film and art cinema

Publications

Books

  • Allen, S. and Hubner, L. (eds) Framing Film - Cinema and the Visual Arts (Intellect, forthcoming 2012)
  • Hubner, L. (ed.) Valuing Films: Shifting Perceptions of Worth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
  • Hubner, L. The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusions of Light and Darkness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

Articles and Chapters

  • Hubner, L. 'Here's Johnny! Re-framing The Shining', in Allen, S. and Hubner, L. (eds) Framing Film - Cinema and the Visual Arts (Intellect, forthcoming 2012)
  • Hubner, L. 'A Taste for Flesh and Blood? Shifting Classifications of Contemporary European Cinema', in Hubner, L. (ed) Valuing Films (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
  • Hubner, L. 'Shifting Perceptions of Worth', in Hubner, L. (ed.) Valuing Films (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
  • Hubner, L. ‘Pan’s Labyrinth, Fear and the Fairy Tale’, in Stephen Hessel and Michèle Huppert (eds) Fear Itself. Reasoning the Unreasonable (Rodopi, 2009)
  • Hübner, L. ‘The Drugs of Labour: the contested nature of popular drug use in childbirth’, in Paul Manning (ed.) Drugs and Popular Culture: Drugs, Identity, Media and Culture in the 21st Century (Willan, 2006)
  • Hübner, L. ‘Her Defiant Stare: Dreams of Another World in Summer with Monika’, Studies in European Cinema 2:2, (Intellect, September 2005)103-113

Projects

  • BA Film Studies (at the University of Winchester) hosts an online blog of 'Iconic Movie Images', with quality articles written by students and staff celebrating movie images that have attained iconic status
  • Having coordinated, with Steven Allen, the international film conference ‘Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts’, she is currently working on an edited collection inspired by the event.

 

Research Interests

Laura Hubner’s research interests lie primarily in Film, but range from European cinema to broader areas of film ‘quality’, gender, identity and the body. Laura currently supervises PhD students on the creative processes of music and film, and on demons and transformations in fairy tale.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

  • Member of the Association for Journalism Education (AJE)
  • Member of the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUVFC)
  • Member of the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
  • Peer Reviewer, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

University of Winchester Research Centre Membership:

  • Centre for Film
  • Centre for Gender Studies
  • Centre for Culture, Communications and Media

 

Related blog posts

Within the Sound of Silence

18 Apr 2012

“Ben, what are you doing?” his father asks from the side of the pool, the first line of dialogue for nearly five minutes, to which Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) leans up from his lilo and says, “Well, I would say I was drifting, here in the pool.” This is not the iconic shot in The Graduate, but it is without a doubt the most powerful. While that shot of Benjamin dwarfed under Mrs. Robinson’s (Anne Bancroft) leg with the (often misquoted) line, “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me” is the more famous, the film is never really about femininity, sexuality or repression – they are merely vices as Benjamin grows apathetic and jaded in his young adulthood; and time after time this is shown through the Braddocks’ pool.

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