Fran Pheasant‐Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 6574627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fran Pheasant‐Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fran |
| FAMILY NAME | Pheasant‐Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY F P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3647-5388 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cuts and Controversy in Pre-Code Hollywood Horror
This essay addresses the cuts and controversy associated with James Whale’s Frankenstein1 and The Bride of Frankenstein2 through archival material connected to their production, censorship, distrib
Tim Burton's Christmas Chaos
Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns , The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the former. Alongside this, the three films display distinct elements of bodily disgust and decay, correspond…
UK media responses to HIV through the lens of Covid-19
This article proposes correlations and parallels in UK newsprint media coverage of the COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS pandemics through engagement with Michael Rothberg's model of multidirectional memory. It achieves this via qualitative and quantitative analysis of newsprint media during selected timelines of the respective outbreaks. Although the COVID-19 outbreak, which originated in Wuhan, China in 2019 and spread globally, has prompted reference to a…
Innovating the frame
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis) in New Review of Film and Television Studies on 02/09/2021, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2021.1952035 \nThe accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version
Tracing HIV/Aids representation through science in 120 BPM
This essay analyses the French film 120 BPM (Campillo 2017 Campillo, R. 2017. 120 BPM. France. Film. [Google Scholar]) in relation to its aesthetics and critical reception in the context of scientific advances in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) therapy, as well as revised socio-cultural attitudes towards, and political strategies for dealing with, the disease. It argues that the treatment trajectory of t…
Signifying Trauma in the Post-9/11 Combat Film
Since the events of 11 September 2001, an extensive range of genres increasingly feature traumatized protagonists. However, there are acknowledged difficulties in trying to recreate the actual experience of trauma on screen [Walker, J. 2005. Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust. Berkeley and London: University of California Press]. Slavoj Žižek [2002. Welcome to the Desert of the Real. London and New York: Verso] explores this dile…
Reflections of Science and Medicine in Two Frankenstein Adaptations
Frankenstein, a novel that centers on a scientist who collects organs and limbs from dead bodies to construct a new being, illustrates the complex, interwoven history of science and science fiction. The novel's attention to the animation of assembled body parts reflects contemporaneous scientific interest in the reanimation of corpses by galvanism. In this article, I extend the science/science-fiction relationship developed in the novel by analyz…
Towards a structure of feeling
This article considers differences between the representation of mutation in science fiction films from the 1950s and the present, and identifies distinctive changes over this time period, both in relation to the narrative causes of genetic disruption and in the aesthetics of its visual display. Discerning an increasingly abject quality to science fiction mutations from the 1970s onwards-as a progressive tendency to view the physically opened bod…
Experiments at the margins
Science is a discipline defined by empiricism and reliable methodologies that result in predictable outcomes. Yet, cutting-edge experiments inevitably involve an element of the unknown, an aspect which science fiction exploits for dramatic effect. Furthermore, fictional science is freed from the ethical constraints that regulate real-world experimentation and is therefore often transgressive. Even as films capitalize on unethical practices and cu…
Cinematic Cyborgs, Abject Bodies
The ecstasy of chaos
The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2008) garnered both critical acclaim and box office success, becoming the seventh highest grossing film ever.1 Like other fantasy films released since 2001, its content reveals a nihilism that allegorizes 9/11 and 'The War on Terror'. The Dark Knight incorporates imagery reminiscent of 9/11, and draws on events at Guantanamo Bay, revealed in 2004 as a site of detainee abuses. Locating aspects of terrorism in the character …
Towards a structure of feeling
This article considers differences between the representation of mutation in science fiction films from the 1950s and the present, and identifies distinctive changes over this time period, both in relation to the narrative causes of genetic disruption and in the aesthetics of its visual display. Discerning an increasingly abject quality to science fiction mutations from the 1970s onwards-as a progressive tendency to view the physically opened bod…
The ecstasy of chaos
The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2008) garnered both critical acclaim and box office success, becoming the seventh highest grossing film ever.1 Like other fantasy films released since 2001, its content reveals a nihilism that allegorizes 9/11 and 'The War on Terror'. The Dark Knight incorporates imagery reminiscent of 9/11, and draws on events at Guantanamo Bay, revealed in 2004 as a site of detainee abuses. Locating aspects of terrorism in the character …
Cinematic Cyborgs, Abject Bodies
The ecstasy of chaos
The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2008) garnered both critical acclaim and box office success, becoming the seventh highest grossing film ever.1 Like other fantasy films released since 2001, its content reveals a nihilism that allegorizes 9/11 and 'The War on Terror'. The Dark Knight incorporates imagery reminiscent of 9/11, and draws on events at Guantanamo Bay, revealed in 2004 as a site of detainee abuses. Locating aspects of terrorism in the character …
Experiments at the margins
Science is a discipline defined by empiricism and reliable methodologies that result in predictable outcomes. Yet, cutting-edge experiments inevitably involve an element of the unknown, an aspect which science fiction exploits for dramatic effect. Furthermore, fictional science is freed from the ethical constraints that regulate real-world experimentation and is therefore often transgressive. Even as films capitalize on unethical practices and cu…
Towards a structure of feeling
This article considers differences between the representation of mutation in science fiction films from the 1950s and the present, and identifies distinctive changes over this time period, both in relation to the narrative causes of genetic disruption and in the aesthetics of its visual display. Discerning an increasingly abject quality to science fiction mutations from the 1970s onwards-as a progressive tendency to view the physically opened bod…
Reflections of Science and Medicine in Two Frankenstein Adaptations
Frankenstein, a novel that centers on a scientist who collects organs and limbs from dead bodies to construct a new being, illustrates the complex, interwoven history of science and science fiction. The novel's attention to the animation of assembled body parts reflects contemporaneous scientific interest in the reanimation of corpses by galvanism. In this article, I extend the science/science-fiction relationship developed in the novel by analyz…
Signifying Trauma in the Post-9/11 Combat Film
Since the events of 11 September 2001, an extensive range of genres increasingly feature traumatized protagonists. However, there are acknowledged difficulties in trying to recreate the actual experience of trauma on screen [Walker, J. 2005. Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust. Berkeley and London: University of California Press]. Slavoj Žižek [2002. Welcome to the Desert of the Real. London and New York: Verso] explores this dile…
Innovating the frame
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis) in New Review of Film and Television Studies on 02/09/2021, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2021.1952035 \nThe accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version
Tracing HIV/Aids representation through science in 120 BPM
This essay analyses the French film 120 BPM (Campillo 2017 Campillo, R. 2017. 120 BPM. France. Film. [Google Scholar]) in relation to its aesthetics and critical reception in the context of scientific advances in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) therapy, as well as revised socio-cultural attitudes towards, and political strategies for dealing with, the disease. It argues that the treatment trajectory of t…
UK media responses to HIV through the lens of Covid-19
This article proposes correlations and parallels in UK newsprint media coverage of the COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS pandemics through engagement with Michael Rothberg's model of multidirectional memory. It achieves this via qualitative and quantitative analysis of newsprint media during selected timelines of the respective outbreaks. Although the COVID-19 outbreak, which originated in Wuhan, China in 2019 and spread globally, has prompted reference to a…
Tim Burton's Christmas Chaos
Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns , The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the former. Alongside this, the three films display distinct elements of bodily disgust and decay, correspond…
Cuts and Controversy in Pre-Code Hollywood Horror
This essay addresses the cuts and controversy associated with James Whale’s Frankenstein1 and The Bride of Frankenstein2 through archival material connected to their production, censorship, distrib
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