Qualifications: BA MA DPhil

Present status: Senior Lecturer in Communications at London Metropolitan University.

Education: University of East London: BA (hons) First Class in Cultural Studies

University of Sussex: MA in Critical Theory/English Literature
DPhil in Media and Cultural Studies
Teaching experience:

1990-1995 Part time tutor on British Film Institute/Birkbeck College Certificate in Film studies.
1990-1995 Part time lecturer on BA Communication studies at London Guildhall University.
1992- 1995 Tutorial fellow on BA Media Studies at Sussex University.
1993-1995 Part time lecturer on BA Film Studies at Westminster University.
1994-1995 Part time lecturer at Sussex University, Centre for Continuing Education.
1995- Lecturer in Communications at London Metropolitan University
1997- Visiting professor in Film and TV at Boston University, British Programmes.
1997-2004 Visiting lecturer on MA Film Studies at Westminster University.
1997- Senior Lecturer in Communications at London Metropolitan University.


Editorships:

Co-editor of Vertigo magazine/Vertigo online.


Exhibitions:

RePossessed, a travelling multi-media exhibition (co-curated and devised with Tony Cryer, Che Guevara John, Chris Lane, Ane Robinson and Souli Spiropoulou).

Photography: Group show: East End Photo-Open 2007 at Mile End Arts Pavilion and East End Photo Open 2008 at Truman Brewery.


Publications:

Books:

Alfred Hitchcock (2005) Pearson Education.

Michael Winterbottom and Revolution Films (2010) Peter Lang (forthcoming).


Journal Articles:

'Ushering the '80s: Chariots of Fire' in Sussex Working Papers in British Cinema, 1993.

Review of Cultural Populism by Jim McGuigan in Media, Culture and Society, vol. 15 (1993), pp 506-539.

Review of British Cinema and Thatcherism, ed. Lester Friedman and Deadline at Dawn by Judith Williamson in Media, Culture and Society, vol. 16 (1994), pp 538-539.

'Image and Identity in Metropolitan Sexual Subcultures' in Diatribe, no. 5, Winter 1994/5.

'Introduction' to Subject Matters: A Journal of Communications and Subjectivity, vol.1, no. 1.

'Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Subjectivity' in Subject Matters, vol. 1, no.1, Winter 2003, pp 9-28.

'The Ethics of Truth' in Subject Matters, vol. 1, no.2, Spring 2004, pp37-46.

'Faultlines: Simon Critichley in discussion on Alain Badiou' (edited with Jon Baldwin) in Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics, no.17, (2005) pp295-307.

'Introduction' in Subject Matters Special Edition: Badiou and Subjectivity, vol. 2, no. 2, (2005) pp1-4.

'Afterword' in Subject Matters, vol. 2, no.1, Winter 2005 pp85-90.

'Vertigo and RePossessed' in Vertigo, Winter 2005.

'Introduction' and 'The Spoto Myth' in RePossessed exhibition catalogue CD, October 2006.

'Fear Itself: a Post-psychoanalytic Approach to Cinematic Anxiety' translated into Greek in The Scarecrow: Fear in Art and Life Greece: Averoff Museum (2007).

(With Chris Lane) Interview with John Wyver in Vertigo, Autumn 2007.

'In this (mediated) world: realism, dialogue and pedagogy in media studies' in International Journal of Applied Semiotics, Winter 2008.

'What's Wrong with the Primacy of Theory?' in Journal of Visual Art Practice, vol. 7, no.2, January 2009.

'Digital Literacy and the Consumer Boom in Digital Cameras' (written with Paul Cobley) accepted for publication in Visual Studies, Winter 2009.

'The Truth in Lilya 4-ever', accepted for publication by Semiotica, currently awaiting publication.


Book chapters:

'Heroic Satans and Other Hitchcockian Heresies', chapter for Hitchcock as Moralist, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Steven Saunders for publication by State University University of New York Press (2009).

'Narrative Supplements: DVD and the Idea of the "text"' (with Paul Cobley), chapter for New Narratives: Theory and Practice edited by Bronwen Thomas and Ruth Page for publication by University of Nebraska Press (2009).

'Alfred Hitchcock' 6,000 word chapter for Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction edited by Lee Horsley and Charles Rzepka (2009).