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Dr Kate Egan

Lecturer in Film Studies
BA Film and Drama (Reading); MA Film Studies (Nottingham); PhD Film Studies (Nottingham) Photograph of Dr Kate Egan.

Contact

Email: kte@aber.ac.uk
Office: B29 Hugh Owen Building
Phone: 01970 628717

Responsibilities

Course Leader, MA Film Studies.

External Examining: 

MA Film Studies, London Metropolitan University, 2009 to the present. 

Editorial Boards: 

Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies.

Teaching Areas

  • FM10120 - Studying Film
  • FM30120 - Analysing Film, Television and Media
  • FM20920 - Film Genre
  • TFM1330 - Film Culture
  • FM32920 - Film Authorship

Supervisor of 3 PhDs:

  • Masculinity and the James Bond Films: A Textual and Reception Study (Stephanie Jones)
  • An analysis of the role of memories in British football fandom (Edward Payne)
  • The reception and marketing of remakes of controversial films (Nia Edwards-Behi)

Research

Kate Egan's current and ongoing research interests are in the areas of British film censorship, British cinema, the horror film, film genre study, cult cinema, audience and reception studies, and film collecting cultures (particularly relating to video and DVD). projects include: an audience study of fans of Mamma Mia!, and a project on the British regional censorship of Monty Python’s The Life of Brian.

Biography

Dr Kate Egan is a lecturer in film and television studies. She has previously worked as a research assistant on the AHRB-funded audience project, Film Consumption and the City, at the University of Nottingham, and the ESRC-funded The International Lord of the Rings Audience Project, at the Aberystwyth University.

Staff Publications

Books:

  • (ed. with Sarah Thomas) Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of 'Cultification' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
  • The Evil Dead ( London: Wallflower Press, 2011) 
  • Trash or Treasure?: Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

  • ‘Predatory Vampire, Great Lady and True Survivor: Exploring the Ordinariness and Extraordinariness of Ingrid Pitt’ in Kate Egan and Sarah Thomas (eds), Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of 'Cultification' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
  • (with Nia Edwards-Behi), ‘The Women in White: Aesthetic and Thematic Uses of Costumes in Argento’s Films’ in Russ Hunter and Alexia Kannas (eds), The Cinema of Dario Argento (London: Wallflower Press, forthcoming)
  • (with Kerstin Leder), ‘The same old song?: Exploring conceptions of the ‘feelgood’ film in the talk of Mamma Mia!’s older viewers’ in Louise Fitzgerald and Melanie Williams (eds), Diggin’ Dancing Queens and Wedding Scenes: The Phenomenon of Mamma Mia! (London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming) 
  • ‘The Evil Dead DVD commentaries, amateurishness and ‘bad film’ discourse’ in Alexia Kannas, Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis (eds), B for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics and Cultural Value (Wayne State University Press, Forthcoming).
  • (with Martin Barker), ‘ The Books, the DVDs, the Extras, and Their Lovers’ in Martin Barker and Ernest Mathijs (eds), Watching the Lord of the Rings: The Story and Findings of a World Audience Project (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008).
  • (with Martin Barker, Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton, Russ Hunter, and Melanie Selfe), ‘Audiences and Receptions of Sexual Violence in Contemporary Cinema’, Report to the British Board of Film Classification on completion of funded research project, March 2007, available from: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/downloads/
  • (with Martin Barker), ‘Rings Around the World: Notes on the Challenges, Problems and Possibilities of International Audience Projects’, Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 3:2, Special Issue on International Audience Research (November 2006).
  • ‘The Celebration of a “Proper Product”: Exploring the Residual Collectible through the “Video Nasty”’ in Charles R. Acland (ed.), Residual Media: Residual Technologies and Culture ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), pp. 200-221.
  • ‘The Amateur Historian and the Electronic Archive: Identity, Power and the Function of Lists, Facts and Memories on “Video Nasty”-Themed Websites’, Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, 3, Special Horror Issue (Spring 2003).