20 episodios
Here's looking at you. » podcast Dr Ellen Wright
-
- Cine y TV
Here's looking at You podcast is a series of conversations hosted by Dr Ellen Wright. Conversations around feminism and politics, gender and sexuality - in film, photography and performance - with particular interest in classical Hollywood, pin-up cultures and burlesque.
Dr Wright is the Vice Chancellor’s 2020 Lecturer in Cinema and Television History at DeMontfort University in Leicester. She has taught Film Studies, Media Studies and Photographic Theory.
Her research interrogates the wider notions of gender, sexuality, class, taste, nationality and consumption linked to Classical Hollywood cinema and tends to focus on denigrated forms such as the celebrity group ‘selfie’, pin-up photography, slash fiction and pornography as well as press books, promotional materials for films and TV shows, film fan annuals, film and photography magazines/pamphlets, syndicated radio plays, film star fiction, film star/celebrity endorsements and advertising tie-ups.
Her published work so far has examined female star personas and celebrity, film star scandals, gender and performance, costuming, censorship, fandom, youth audiences and moral panics, audience and critical reception and media discourse across British and American contexts, primarily through the use of extra textual materials.
This website is a hub for her various research projects.
-
Podcast #22: ‘Sold on it’s sex appeal’: Researching cinema publicity with Adrian Smith
In this podcast Dr Ellen Wright talks with Dr Adrian Smith of the university of Sussex. Adrian is an expert on exploitation cinema. ‘But what is exploitation cinema?’ I hear you ask. Well, as Roche observes, in his article, ‘Exploiting Exploitation Cinema: an Introduction‘ it is not a genre of films but: ‘an industry with a […]
-
Podcast #21: I Love Lucy: Women and sexual desire with Dr Lucy Neville
In this podcast Dr Lucy Neville of University of Leicester talks with me about sexual desire and pornography Lucy is a Lecturer in Criminology with an interest in understanding women’s engagement with sex, sex work, and pornography. Her PhD thesis in Forensic Psychology involved investigating violence perpetuated against sex workers by both clients and intimate […]
-
Here’s Looking At You Podcast #20 Archive Trouble with Desirae Embree
This podcast is intended to sit alongside the Midlands Four Cities-funded Dialogue Days event I co organised with my De Montfort University colleague, Prof Justin Smith and Prof James Chapman and Dr Claire Jenkins at University of Leicester. The event, ‘Delving into the Archives: A Screen History Workshop,’ took place online, on Tuesday 10th of […]
-
Podcast #19: 100 Million Dollar Women with Claire Jenkins
In this podcast I talk with Dr Claire Jenkins about her work on ‘100 Million Dollar Women’ – the women directors who are currently working and thriving in hollywood. Claire is a lecturer in Film and Television Studies at of University of Leicester and I first came across her brilliant work at the one day […]
-
Podcast #18: ‘A Real Rock ‘n’ Roll Cinema’: Talking cult film and cult spaces with Jane Giles of London’s former Scala Cinema
In the latest Here’s Looking at You podcast Dr Ellen Wright talks with Jane Giles, programmer between 1988 and 1992 at the former doyenne of British repertory cinemas, The Scala cinema. Located initially on the site of an old concert hall in Tottenham Street, Fitzrovia, it moved later to its legendary second home in the […]
-
Podcast #17:‘I have delusions of grandeur’: 45 minutes of loveliness with burlesque powerhouse Cece Sinclair.
In the latest HLAY podcast Dr Ellen Wright (and her friend Bobbie) talks with triple-threat burlesque powerhouse Cece Sinclair. Cece has been on the British burlesque seen for a few years now and has a reputation for her professionalism, her polished performances and her sheer likeability. They grabbed the chance to chat at this year’s […]