Marketing, Fundraising & Project Management.
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Film Writer, Researcher & Lecturer.
Film and Media Lecturer (Levels 3 - 6), with additional experience of teaching international students and pastoral tutor responsibilities.
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Qualified to teach at FE, HE and Adult level plus Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Roles inc.
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Film Studies Lecturer
Brighton Screen Film School
Lecturer for Research for Practice 3: Politics, Culture and Ideology, a Level 5 module on MA Filmmaking.
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Film Studies & Personal Tutor
University of Sussex
International Study Centre (StudyGroup)
Preparing international students for BA/MAs in Film & Media.
Lecturer & Module Co-ordinator
University of Chichester
Taught across a number of film and media modules, was sole lecturer and module co-ordinator for 'TV Cultures' module.
Lecturer & Course Co-ordinator
Chichester College
Part of a team of lecturers on
ND Media Production. Sole lecturer and course co-ordinator for A Level Film Studies.
Lads of the Village: from stage to screen to court
British Silent Film Symposium, Kings College London, April 2018
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Making Progress on Progress Films
British Silent Film Symposium, Kings College London, April 2017
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Face 2 Face: An examination of the creator and creation in films featuring plastic surgery
(Dis)Connected Forms - Narratives on the Fractured Self Conference, University of Hull, September 2016
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Charlie Chaplin and World War One
University of Chichester Research Conference, July 2016
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Charlie Chaplin in the British Press
British Silent Film Symposium, Kings College London, April 2016
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Alice in Wonderland, a Gothic Perspective
St Mary's University Research Conference, March 2016
Which Way? Film Adaptations of Alice in Wonderland
Wonderlands: Reading/Writing/Telling Fairy Tales and Fantasy Conference, Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairytales & Fantasy, University of Chichester, May 2015
Making a Living: Charlie Chaplin's Finances 1906 – 1916
The Tramp at 100 Conference
Bologna, June 2014
Public Talks
I regularly give talks at Arts Venues, Cinemas, WI/NWR, Local History or Literary Groups and adult education colleges etc., and since 2020 online talks for cinemas, libraries and education colleges.
I am always happy to adjust or combine topics to provide you with the subject and format that best suits your programme and audience.​​​​​​
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So whether you are after an in-depth look at the work of a particular film director; or fancy spending a couple of hours studying the objectification of the male body in film - do get in touch. ​
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Below is a selection of the topics I have given talks on.
I hope you'll find something here of interest. ​
Talk Topics
Film Directors and Stars
Agnes Varda - Al Pacino - Alice Guy-Blache - Alfred Hitchcock - Andrea Arnold - Ang Lee - Audrey Hepburn - Baz Luhrmann - Billy Wilder - Buster Keaton - Chantal Akerman - Charlie Chaplin - Charlize Theron - Clio Barnard - Coen Brothers - Deniz Gamze Ergüven - Dorothy Arzner - Dorothy Davenport - Francois Truffaut - Frank Capra - Ida Lupino - Jean-Luc Godard - F W Murnau - Fritz Lang - Howard Hawks - Jafar Panahi - Jane Campion - Joan Morgan - Joanna Hogg - Kathryn Bigelow - Ken Loach - Kevin Smith - Leni Riefenstahl - Lois Weber - Lynne Ramsay - Marilyn Monroe - Martin Scorsese - Mike Figgis - Muriel Box - Nell Shipman - Nicole Kidman - Noel Coward - Mira Nair - Orson Welles - Pedro Almodovar - Quentin Tarantino - Robert de Niro - Sally Potter - Shirley Clarke - Sofia Coppola - Stephen Frears - Steven Soderbergh - Steven Spielberg - Terry Gilliam - Tim Burton - VÄ›ra Chytilová - Wes Anderson
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Film Genres
Bio-Pics - Christmas - Comedy - Crime - Documentary - Film Noir - Genre Overview - Gothic - Holocaust - Horror - James Bond - Musical - Rom Coms - Sci-Fi - Time Travel - War - Western
General Film
1939 (the best year?) - 125 Years of Cinema (1895, 1920, 1945, 1970, 1995, 2020) - Artists on Film - Auteur - Blockbuster - Censorship/Classification - Christmas - Cinemagoing - Fans and Fandom -
Film Form - Gender - Independent Cinema - Hollywood 1967-1977 - Movies About Movies - Objectification - Plastic Surgery (films featuring) - Shocking Cinema - Silent Cinema - Spectatorship - Stars - Studio System - Studying Film - Sussex on Film - Women film directors
From page to screen
Jane Austen: overview or individual titles - Macbeth - Taming of the Shrew - Alice in Wonderland - ​Les Liaison Dangereuses - Stephen King - Wuthering Heights - Dracula - The Phantom of the Opera - Frankenstein - Jekyll & Hyde - The Big Sleep - Rebecca - A Christmas Carol - Daphne Du Maurier - Patricia Highsmith - Graham Greene - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Gothic Overview
International Film
Australia - British - Dogme95 - French New Wave - German 2nd World War - German Expressionism - Hollywood - Iranian - Italian Neo Realism
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How Films are Made
Film Form - Cinematography - Costume and Make Up - Editing - Mise en Scene - Music - Performance - Screenwriting - Sound - Stunts - Special Effects
TV Genres
Costume - Crime - Documentary - Fantasy - Reality TV - Vampire
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​​"Really well delivered. Interactive, informed, enthusiastic and fun. First class!."
​​"Informative, clearly explained. Many opportunities to ask questions and to share knowledge with the group."