Popular Screen Cultures and Genre

This sub-section contains work from our members which explore the role of Genre within Popular Screen Cultures. If you would like to read more, please follow the underlined text for additional information.

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

Aldana Reyes, X. (2020) ‘Abjection and Body Horror.’ In Bloom, C. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 393-410.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2014) Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2019) ‘Contemporary Zombies.’ Twenty-First-Century Gothic An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 89-101.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2018) ‘Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth: Studies in the Horror Film’, book review for Gothic Studies.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2016) Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership. London and New York: Routledge.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2015) ‘Reel Evil: A Critical Reassessment of Found Footage Horror.’ Gothic Studies, 17(2) pp. 122-136.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2013) ‘Skin Deep? Surgical Horror and the Impossibility of Becoming Woman in Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In.’ Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 90(7) pp. 819-834.

Aldana Reyes, X. (2024) ‘Spanish Vampire Films.’ The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire. Springer International Publishing, pp. 679-696.

Carter, M. (2014) Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood’s Frontier Narrative. Edinburgh University Press.

Chambers, A. (2023) ‘Contagion went viral: microbiology, entertainment media and the public understanding of science.’ Current Clinical Microbiology Reports, 10(3) pp. 152-160.

Chambers, A. (2024) ‘Fertile Feminist Futures?: Artificial gestation, forced insemination, and women directors of SF.’ In Reproduction and Speculative Cultures Conference. Lancaster University, 24/10/2024 – 24/10/2024.

Chambers, A. (2019) ‘From Sacred to Scientific: Epic Religion, Spectacular Science and Charlton Heston’s SF Cinema.’ Science Fiction Film and Television, 12(3) pp. 303-322.

Chambers, A., Iossifidis, M., Verran, J., Garforth, L. (2025) Reading Science/Fiction: Practices, Pleasures and Publics. Palgrave.

Chambers, A. (2018) ‘‘‘Somewhere between science and superstition’: Religious Outrage, Horrific Science, and The Exorcist’.’ In History of Science, Technology & Medicine Ireland. Queen’s University Belfast, 19/10/2018 – 20/10/2018.

Chambers, A. (2020) ‘The (re)birth of pregnancy horror in Alice Lowe’s Prevenge.’ In Peirse, A. (ed.) Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre. Rutgers University Press,

Chambers, A.C. (2024) ‘Virological Vampires.’ The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire. Springer International Publishing, pp. 1709-1728.

Chambers, A. (2024) ‘Who (re)Produces the Future?: Ectogenesis, Exosolar Survival, and Women Directors of Science-based Fiction.’ In UCL STS Research Seminar. Univeristy College London, 27/11/2024 – 27/11/2024.

Chambers, A. (2021) ‘“You’re more likely to see an alien than an Asian woman”: Onscreen diversity versus intersectional systemic decolonisation in Science/Fiction Television.’ Virtual,

Fairclough-Isaacs, K., 2014. ‘Documentary’s awkward turn: cringe comedy and media spectatorship, by Jason Middleton’, Comedy Studies, 5 (2), pp. 207-208.

Halligan, B., Fairclough-Isaacs, K., Edgar, R., Spelman, N., 2016. ‘The Arena Concert Music, Media and Mass Entertainment’, Bloomsbury Academic.

Halligan, B., Edgar, R., Fairclough-Isaacs, K., 2013. ‘The Music Documentary Acid Rock to Electropop’, Routledge.

Herrero, C. (2010) ‘Edgy art cinema: cinephilia and genre negotiations in recent Spanish rural thrillers.’ Studies in European Cinema, 7(2) pp. 123-134.

Herrero, C. (2014) ‘Hybrid Models: Auteurism and Genre in Contemporary Spanish Crime Thrillers.’ In Camet, F., Wheeler, D. (ed.) (Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema. London: Intellect, pp. 351-364.

Ilott, S.E. (2018) ‘“How is these kids meant to make it out the ghetto now?” Community cohesion and communities of laughter in British multicultural comedy.’ Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 53(2) pp. 211-222.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2017) ‘Book Review: The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film.’ Horror Studies, 8(1) pp.165-167.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2015) ‘“‘You keep telling yourself what you know, but what do you believe?’: Cultural Spin, Puzzle Films and Mind Games in the cinema of Christopher Nolan”. (Extracted Version).’ In BAFTSS – British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. Manchester, UK, 16/4/2015 – 18/4/2015.

Reyes, X.A. (2014) ‘Beyond psychoanalysis: Post-millennial horror film and affect theory.’ Horror Studies, 3(2) pp. 243-261.