Gothic Screens

We specialise in horror film and investigate the aesthetics, affects and experiences of horror through screens and sounds.

Our researchers have contributed to major critical debates in the field of horror studies. They have discussed the Gothic on screen in publications and in public engagement work with film festivals and other cultural organisations.

Research interests encompass all periods from the earliest horror to the 21^st century and themes include body horror, technologies of horror, horror and science, horror serialisation and periodisation, vampiric horror, folk horror on screen, horror and American myth, capitalist horror, horror viewership, and international and global horror film.

Our partners include Manchester Grimmfest, HOME, The Deaf Institute.

You can see video lectures on horror cinema from some of our researchers here:

Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, ‘Living in the Upside Down: The Retro 1980s’

Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, ‘Gothic Cinema: Towards a Definition’

Dr Linnie Blake, ‘Neoliberal Irish Gothic: The Death and Afterlife of the Celtic Tiger’

Dr Matt Carter, ‘”This house has many hearts”: The Incoherence of Poltergeist (1982)’

Ghosts in the Machine: how technology haunts the screen | BFI In Dreams Are Monsters horror season

SORCHA NÍ FHLAINN: POSTMODERN VAMPIRES

Related Publications and Outputs

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

Blake, L., Aldana Reyes, X. (2015) Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon. London and New York: I. B. Tauris.

Blake, L. (2012) The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity. Manchester University Press.

Carter, M. (2020) ‘The Perpetuation of Myth: Ideology in Bone Tomahawk.’ Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: a quarterly of language, literature and culture, 68(1) pp. 21-35.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2019) Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan UK.