Popular Screen Cultures and Aesthetics

This page lists work from our members which focus on Aesthetics and its purpose within Popular Screen Cultures. If you would like additional information, please follow the underlined text to more resources.

Trigger warning: Some of these texts may discuss or analyse sensitive topics.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2020) ‘‘A Gothic Barcelona?: Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Cemetery of Forgotten Books Series and Franco’s Legacy’.’ In Millette, H.G., Heholt, R. (ed.) The New Urban Gothic Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene. Basingstoke: Springer Nature, pp. 237-250.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2016) ‘Discipline… But Punish!: The Twisted Pleasures of Torture Porn’s Thanatopolitical Scaffold.’ In de Valk, M. (ed.) Screening the Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 51-70.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2015) ‘Gothic Affect: An Alternative Approach to Critical Models of the Contemporary Gothic.’ In Paitti-Farnell, L., Lee Brien, D. (ed.) New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 11-23.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2020) Gothic Cinema. London and New York: Routledge.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2014) ‘Nothing but the Meat: Posthuman Bodies and the Dying Undead.’ In Keetley, D. (ed.) ‘We’re All Infected’: Essays on AMC’s the Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 142-155.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2017) Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2017) ‘The Cultural Capital of the Gothic Horror Adaptation: The Case of Dario Argento’s The Phantom of the Opera and Dracula 3D.’ The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 5(2) pp. 229-244.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2017) ‘The Curious Case of the Spanish Televisual Vampire.’ Horror Studies, 8(2) pp. 241-254.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2016) ‘The Mediation of Death in Fictional Snuff: Reflexivity, Viewer Interpellation and Ethical Implication.’ In Jackson, N., Kimber, S., Walker, J., Watson, T.J. (ed.) Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, pp. 211-224.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2019) ‘Transitional origins.’ Gothic Cinema. Routledge, pp. 43-71.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2013) ‘‘Who ordered the hamburger with AIDS?’: Haematophilic Semiotics in Tru(e) Blood.’ Gothic Studies, 15(1) pp. 55-65.

Chambers, A. (2022) ‘‘Across the desolate waves of space-night’: VR Addiction, Sentient AI and Reciprocal Care in Aniara.’ In Futures of Care: Relationality and Responsibility in more than Human Worlds. Univeristy of Leeds, 8/4/2022 – 8/4/2022.

Chambers, A. (2022) ‘”I kept my fluids to myself”: Bodies, babies, and bioethics in Claire Denis’ High Life.’ In When It Changed: Women in SF/F since 1972. Univeristy of Glasgow, 2/12/2022 – 4/12/2022.

Chambers, A.C. (2015) Jessica Jones: Science, Realism, & Netflix. 

Chambers, A.C. (2014) Nature Swipes Back: The Return of an Environmentally Conscious Cinema.

Chambers, A. (2023) ‘The Limits of Life: medical experimentation, bodily consent, and bioethics in Trouble Every Day (2001) and High Life (2018).’ In Sloane, P. (ed.) ReFocus: the films of Claire Denis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,

Fairclough, K. “Hold up: Mapping the boundaries between Music Video and Video Art” in More than illustrated music. Hybridizing film, video art and music video. Bloomsbury Music and Sound Studies Series (2023)

Fhlainn, S.N. (2019) ‘Contemporary Vampires.’ Twenty First Century Gothic an Edinburgh Companion. pp. 102-116.

Fhlainn, S.N. (2024) ”Knowledge is a fatal thing’; or, from fatal whispers to vampire songs: Breaking Polidori’s oath in The Vampire Chronicles and Byzantium.’ Legacy of John Polidori the Romantic Vampire and Its Progeny. pp. 186-201.

Isaacs, K., Goddard, M., Smith, A., 2016. ‘Editorial: Introduction: Twin Peaks’ persistent cultural resonance’, Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, 2 (2), pp. 5-8. 

Kirby, D.A., Chambers, A.C. (2018) ‘Playing God: religious influences on the depictions of science in mainstream movies.’ In Nerlich, B., Hartley, S., Raman, S., Smith, A. (ed.) Science, politics and the dilemmas of openness: here be monsters. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 278-302.

Marini, A.M., Ní Fhlainn, S. (2022) ‘Vampire and monster narratives: an interview with Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.’ REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, 3(2) pp. 145-158.

Murphy, B.M., Fhlainn, S.N. (2022) ‘Introduction: ‘Going to Extremes: The Gothic in the Twentieth-Century’.’ In Fhlainn, S.N., Murphy, B.M. (ed.) Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-12.

Myers, W., Ní Fhlainn, S. (2006)  The Wicked Heart: Studies in the Phenomena of Evil. Oxford: At the Interface Press, 2006.. Oxford: At The Interface Press, Oxford.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2013) ‘“A Very Special Vampire Episode: Gothic television, Vampires, and Postmodern turns in The X Files (1993-2002) and Friday the 13th: The Series (1987-1990)”..’ In TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires. Northampton, UK, 7/6/2013 – 8/6/2013. Intellect,

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2021) ‘‘Cruising the Vampire: Hollywood Gothic, star branding, and Interview with the Vampire (1994)’.’ In Redmond, S. (ed.) Starring Tom Cruise. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, pp. 133-151.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2008) Dark Reflections, Monstrous Reflections: Essays on the Monster in Culture.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2016) ‘“Dead but Delicious”: Rewriting, performing and revising vampirism in Dracula Untold (2014) and What We Do in the Shadows (2014).’ In Transylvanian Society of Dracula: 4th World Congress. Trinity College, Dublin, 20/10/2016 – 21/10/2016.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2022) ‘‘Gothic Horror Films at the Fin-de-Millennium: From Nightmare Videos to Filtered Realities (1980 – 2000)’.’ In Ni Fhlainn, S., Murphy, B.M. (ed.) Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 144-162.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2011) “Gothic Transformations – The Monstrous and Fragile Body in the cinema of Darren Aronofsky”. 

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2009) ‘“‘His Eyes Blazed Redly’: Skinning, Satanism and Mephistophelian Romance – Hannibal Lecter and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)”.’ In Fhlainn, S.N. (ed.) Our Monstrous (S)kin: Blurring the Boundaries Between Monsters and Humanity. Oxford: The Inter-Disciplinary Press,

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2015) ‘‘“I am the vampire of this age”: Adaptations, Dislocations, and the End of the Articulate Undead in Anne Rice’s Prince Lestat and Dracula Untold (2014)’.’ In International Gothic Association. Vancouver, Canada, 28/7/2015 – 1/8/2015.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2011) ‘“Immortal Bodies in Crisis: The Postmodern Vampire’s Diet”.’ In Menegaldo, G. (ed.) Gothic N.E.W.S. Vol II: Cinema. Paris: Michel Houdiard,

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2022) ‘Introduction: A Decade of Dreams and Nightmares: Popular Gothic in the 1980s.’ Gothic Studies, 24(2) pp. 111-117.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2010) ‘“It’s About Time”.’In Ní Fhlainn, S. (ed.) The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical Essays on the Films. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, pp. 1-28. 

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2011) “Lost in Translation: The Cultural Problem of Re-imagining our Beloved Movie Monsters”.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2018) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2014) ‘“‘Old Things, Fine Things’: Of Vampires, Antique Dealers, and Timelessness.”.’ In Bacon, S., Bronk,, K. (ed.) Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture. Oxford and Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 183-210.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2019) Postmodern Vampires. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2016) ‘Screening the American Gothic: Celluloid Serial Killers in American Popular Culture.’ American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 187-202.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2011) ‘“The Eternal Changeling: Dracula’s Transformations in the 1970s”..’ In Yoder, P.L., Kreuter, P.M. (ed.) The Horrid Looking Glass.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2013) ‘“‘The Oz you haven’t seen before!’: The Problematic Gothic Aesthetic of Return to Oz (1985)..’ In Returning to Oz: The Afterlife of Dorothy Conference. Manchester, UK, 7/2/2013 – 7/2/2013.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2015) ‘‘There’s Something Very Familiar About All This’: Time Machines, Cultural Tangents, and Mastering Time in H.G Wells’s The Time Machine and the Back to the Future trilogy.’ Adaptation, 9(2) pp. 164-184.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2022) TWENTIETH CENTURY GOTHIC. EUP.

Reyes, X.A. (2017) ’11 Clive Barker’s late (anti-)horror fiction.’ Clive Barker. Manchester University Press, pp. 194-207.

Reyes, X.A. (2022) ‘Gothic Exploitation.’ The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, pp. 37-54.

Reyes, X.A. (2018) ‘Guillermo del toro’s crimson peak (2015).’ Gothic A Reader. pp. 169-176.

Suarez, M. (2025) Retracing ripples, spatial and temporal (im)mobility in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel” in Noble, F.. and Albadalejo, N. Authoring Female Identities in Spanish and Latin American Art and Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Suarez, M.F. (TBC) “The Lion Cub, the Witcher, and the War. Ciri and Gendered Violence”. Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism, Springer. [Forthcoming]

Wester, M., Reyes, X.A. (2019) ‘Introduction: The Gothic in the Twenty-First Century.’ Twenty First Century Gothic an Edinburgh Companion, pp. 1-16.