Professor Christine Geraghty

BA (Hull), MA (Keele)
Professor, Film and Television Studies
Office hours: Monday 4-5pm & Thursday 10-11am
c.geraghty@tfts.arts.gla.ac.uk

Research Interests

Film and television fiction, with a particular interest in adaptations of novels and plays for the screen; British cinema from 1939; feminist film and television theory; fictional genres; screen audiences; stars, acting and performance; cultural studies. Christine is an experienced supervisor and successful PhD students under her direction have worked on subjects as varied as soap opera viewing and cultural identity; fandom and vampire films; television documentaries; BBC channel identification in a multi channel environment; Hollywood cinema in the 1940s; the image of women in Malayan cinema; language in European cinema. Her PhD students have gone into a variety of academic and media posts.

She is an editor of the Journal of British Cinema and Television and a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Screen, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education and Critical Studies in Television. She is chairperson of the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association.

Teaching

In 2009/10, Christine will give lectures on ‘Introduction to Television’ at level 1 and will lead courses on the History of Critical Writing on Film and ‘Ethnicity, representation and identity: adaptation and hybridity on screen’ for Masters students. These courses are open to all Faculty of Arts Masters students.

Selected Publications

Christine’s latest book is Now a Major Motion Picture Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). It deals with a wide range of adaptations including Brokeback Mountain and Gangs of New York as well as more familiar classics. She has recently published an essay on Atonement (Wright, 2008) which is available to download in the journal Adaptations.

Christine is also the author of the classic Women and Soap Opera (Polity, 1991); British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender, Genre and the ‘New Look’ which takes an historical and cultural approach to textual analysis (Routledge, 2000 and available as an ebook); and (with David Lusted) The Television Studies Book (Arnold, 1998), a collection of varied essays on contemporary television. Her detailed study of the British film, My Beautiful Laundrette, was published by I B Taurus in 2004.

Her most recent essay on soap opera has been published as ‘Discussing quality: critical vocabularies and popular television drama’ in Media and Cultural Theory, J Curran and D. Morley (eds), Oxford: Routledge; it looks at EastEnders and suggests that we need to re-assess the balance between melodrama and realism in British soaps.

An essay on ‘Cinema as a social space: understanding cinema-going in Britain, 1947-63’ published by Framework is available and three further essays can be found in Enlighten, the University’s Institutional Repository Service.

Christine gave the opening address to the Screen conference on 'The making and remaking of classic television' held at the University of Warwick on 19th March 2009. The text of her speech can be downloaded at the above link.