Dr Jenny Barrett
Jenny Barrett has been a full-time lecturer on the Film Studies programme since joining Edge Hill University in September 2003. She teaches on a range of modules from Level One's Film History and Development to more advanced modules on film criticism, film genre, authorship approaches and issues of identity and representation. Before joining Edge Hill University she was awarded a First Class Honours degree in BA in Film and Television Studies with Drama and Theatre Studies at Roehampton University in London. She stayed on at Roehampton to complete a PhD on Hollywood's representations of the American Civil War, for which she was awarded a two-year grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board. During that time she also taught on the undergraduate film programme at Roehampton, and completed a one-year Post-graduate Certificate in Higher Education, for which she received a distinction.
Research
Current Research
- The war genre
- Representations of armed combat
- The use of slow-motion in combat films
- American Civil War films
- Representations of dominant and dangerous women in popular culture.
- Publications
Publications
Publications
- Shooting the Civil War: Cinema, Genre and American National Identity ( I.B. Tauris, 2008)
- Proceedings of the 2004 Film and History League Conference: War in Film, TV & History - “Our Fathers, Our Sons: The Masculine Ancestor in American Civil War Combat Films”
- Youve Made Mistress Very, Very Angry: Displeasure and Pleasure in Media Representations of BDSM (Participations web journal; 2007, Vol. 4, Issue 1) (ISSN:1749-8716)
- 'Finding the War Film in Star Wars: A Reconsideration of Genre in Episodes I to VI' in Star Wars: Exploring an Expanding Universe (I.B. Tauris, forthcoming 2009)
Conferences
- Vamps, Bitches and Babes: The Dominant, Dangerous Woman in Popular Culture - English and History Research Seminar Programme, Edge Hill University, June 2008
- Mistresses, Madams and Super-Heroes: The Rising Affection for the Dominatrix Cine - Excess II, International Conference, ICA, May 2008
- Mistresses and Madams GenSex (Gender and Sexuality) -Research Group, Edge Hill University, April 2008
- Dark, Scary Stuff: Stereotypes of BDSM in the Media - English and History Research Seminar Programme, Edge Hill University, June 2007
- Dishonourable Ancestors? Contemporary American Civil War Films - History Research Seminar Programme, Edge Hill University, February 2007
- Personal Trials and Missing Villains: Domestic Melodrama and the American Civil War on the Screen - Guest Speaker Institute of Historical Research, University of London, November 2005
- They Will Never be Obliged to Read History Again: The Education of a Nation Through American Civil War Films - Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference, London, April 2005
- Motion, Emotion and Slow Motion: The War Film and the Melodramatic Mode Cinema: Motion-Illusion-Spectacle Exploring the Legacy of EadweardMuybridge, London, November 2004
- Our Fathers, Our Sons: The Masculine Ancestor in American Civil War Films - Film History Conference, Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas, November 2004
- Resolution Narratives of Rape - Crossing Boundaries Feminist Conference, London, July 2003
- Real Students and Learning Outcomes - Institute of Lecturers & Teachers (now HE Academy), Warwick University, July 2003
- The American Civil War: To Remember / Forget - Journeys Across Media (JAM) Conference, University of Reading, March 2003
- Methodology of Research into the American Civil War Film - AHRB Centre for British Film & Television Studies, University of London: Postgraduate Event, January 2003
- The American Civil War and the Western Research Seminar Programme - Roehampton University, London, May 2002