Dr James Cateridge is Senior Lecturer in Film at Oxford Brookes University. His research attempts to untangle the webs of identity, narrative and place built up within cultural institutions, policy networks and audience behavior. His monograph The People’s Pictures: National Lottery Funding for British Cinema was published (as James Caterer) in 2011, and his work can also be found in peer reviewed journals such as The Journal of British Cinema and Television, Humanities, and The International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen. Most recently he has undertaken audience research using FaceBook groups to investigate genealogy and television tourism driven by the Starz/Amazon TV show Outlander.
Lindsay Steenberg is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University where she co-ordinates their graduate programme in Popular Cinema. She has published numerous articles on violence and gender in postmodern and postfeminist media culture. She is the author of Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science and the forthcoming monograph Are You Not Entertained? Mapping the Gladiator in Visual Culture, for which she was awarded a Research Excellence Fellowship from Oxford Brookes. She has recently begun a new project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to map the fight sequence in post-millennial action cinema.
Francesco Sticchi has a Ph.D in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, obtained under the supervision of Dr. Warren Buckland. He works as Associate Lecturer in the same institution and at the SAE Institute, and is the author of the book: Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema: A Spinozian Analysis of Film Experience (Routledge, 2019). Francesco is also interested in an experiential use of Mikhail Bakhtin’s Chronotope, and is currently working on an affective-ethical approach to examine how contemporary media culture addresses the concept of precarity.
Peter Turner is a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University where he teaches on the Film, Digital Media Production, and Media, Communications and Culture courses. He is the author of Found Footage Horror Films: A Cognitive Approach and a monograph on The Blair Witch Project as part of Auteur’s Devil’s Advocates series. He has delivered papers at The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image conferences in London, Helsinki and Montana and other conferences including Fear 2000 and Cine-Excess.