Dr Steven Allen 

Lecturer 

Arts 

Email:

Steven.Allen@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 827152 

Address:

Expertise

Animation, British Cinema history, horror cinema.

Research Interests

Film Studies (with particular interest in the cinemas of Australasia, Britain andHollywood).

Teaching specialisms include animation, film history, the horror genre and nationalcinemas. Topics of specific interest include the representations oflandscapes, memory/history and the body.

Supervision to completion

• Primetime Animation (MA by research)

Current supervision (MPhil/PhD)

• Exploration of discourses of the city and ideology of progress as presented within American and Japanese science fiction texts
• Cross-Cultural Reassessment of the Italian Crime Film in the Years of Terrorism

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

• Joint coordinator of the International Film Conference: ‘Framing Film – Cinema and the Visual Arts’, 4th-6th Sep 2009, University of Winchester.
• ‘Assessment feedback: A case study’, Capture: Learning and Teaching Journal, No.2, (2009).
• ‘Audio Avery: Sound in Tex Avery’s MGM Cartoons’, Animation Journal, 17, (2009).
• ‘Imaging/Imagining a history of violence: Red Road and This is England’, 2008 Conference Proceedings Volume Two: Selected Full Refereed Papers, (2009).
• ‘British Cinema at the Seaside: the Limits of Liminality’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol.5 No.1, (2008).
• ‘Bringing the Dead to Life: Animating the Horrific’, Fear, Horror & Terror - 1, eBook (2008)
• ‘Will Hay and the Cinema of Consensus’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol.3 No.2, (2006).