School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr Karen Boyle

Media and Violence
  • Senior Lecturer (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

telephone: 01413306318
email: Karen.Boyle@glasgow.ac.uk


Office hours: Wednesday 12-2pm

Research Interests

My research cuts across different contemporary film and television genres to explore the gendering of violence and sexuality, most recently, in relation to pornography and its representation in mainstream media. I am also interested in audience research and, in particular, in experiences of cinema. 

I have presented my on-going research at a range of international conferences, both academic and activist, including a keynote presentation at the Gender, Justice, Media conference at the Mexican Supreme Court in October 2010.  In February 2007, I presented evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Equal Opportunities Committee on the impact of pornography.

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Number of items: 15.

2011

Boyle, K. (2011) Producing abuse: selling the harms of pornography. Women's Studies International Forum, 34 (6). pp. 593-602. ISSN 0277-5395 (doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2011.09.002)

Boyle, K. (2011) "That's so fun!": selling pornography for men to women in The Girls Next Door. In: Dines, G. and Humez, J. (eds.) Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader. Sage, Thousand Oaks. ISBN 9781412974417

2010

Boyle, K. (2010) Watch with baby: cinema, parenting and community. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 13 (3). pp. 275-290. ISSN 1367-5494 (doi:10.1177/1367549410363196)

Boyle, K., ed. (2010) Everyday Pornography. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415543781

Boyle, K. (2010) Selling the Selling of Sex: Secret Diary of a Call Girl on Screen. Feminist Media Studies, 10 (1). pp. 113-116. ISSN 1468-0777

2009

Boyle, K.E. (2009) Gendered narratives of child sexual abuse in fiction film. In: Cuklanz, L.M. and Moorti, S. (eds.) Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations. Series: Intersections in communications and culture (23). Peter Lang, New York, USA, pp. 181-200. ISBN 9781433102776

Boyle, K.E. (2009) Attractions and distractions: mums, babies and 'early' cinemagoing. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 6 (2).

Boyle, K. (2009) Film, violence and gender. In: Stark, E. and Buzawa, E. (eds.) Violence Against Women in Families and Relationships. Greenwood Praeger. ISBN 9780275998462

Boyle, K. (2009) Vendendo a pornograpfia para homens as mulheres: The Girls of the Playboy Mansion and porn culture. Media & Jornalismo: Revista do Centro de Investigacao Media e Jornalismo, 8 (2). pp. 25-42. ISSN 1645-5681

2008

Boyle, K.E. (2008) Courting consumers and legitimating exploitation: the representation of commercial sex in television documentaries. Feminist Media Studies, 8 (1). pp. 35-50. ISSN 1468-0777 (doi:10.1080/14680770701824894)

2007

Boyle, K.E., and Weissmann, E. (2007) Evidence of things unseen: the pornographic aesthetic and the search for truth in CSI. In: Allen, M. (ed.) Reading CSI: Crime TV Under the Microscope. Series: Reading contemporary television . I.B. Tauris, London, UK. ISBN 9781845114282

2006

Boyle, K. (2006) The boundaries of porn studies on Linda Williams' Porn Studies. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 4 (1). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1740 0309 (doi:10.1080/17400300600577286)

2005

Boyle, K.E. (2005) Feminism without men: feminist media studies in a post-feminist age. In: Curran, J. and Gurevitch, M. (eds.) Mass Media and Society: fourth edition. Arnold, pp. 29-43. ISBN 0340884991

Boyle, K.E. (2005) Media and violence: gendering the debates. Sage Publications. ISBN 1412903793

2001

Boyle, K.E. (2001) What's natural about killing? Gender, copycat violence and Natural Born Killers. Journal of Gender Studies, 10 (3). pp. 311-321. ISSN 1465-3869 (doi:10.1080/09589230120086511)

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I welcome applications from new PhD students interested in feminist film or television studies, including (but not restricted to) work on gendered violence, pornography, the sex industry and masculinity. I am also interested in supervising work on cinema audiences, particularly contemporary audiences.

Current PhD Students

  • Anthony Reynolds, "Grown-up gaming: Long-term, 'heavy' computer game use in UK adults'
  • Lesley-Ann Dickson, "Film Festivals and Cinema Audiences: An investigation of the Glasgow Film Festival audiences and their relationship to the Glasgow Film Theatre"
  • Michael MacKenzie: "The Giallo and gender"
  • Katherine Hughes, "Queer possibilities in teen relationships in film, 2000-2009"

Recently completed PhD Students

  • Jenny Reburn "Masculinity and surveillance in the serial killer film"  
  • Susan Berridge "Serialised Sexual Violence in Teen Television Drama Series"
  • Katharina Lindner "Spectacular Physicalities: Female Athleticism in Contemporary Cinema”
  • Robbie Edmondstone “Beyond Brutality: Violence and spectacle in the filoni"
  • Elke Weissmann "Crime, the body and the truth: Understanding the shift towards forensic science in television crime drama with the CSI franchise."
  • MLitt in Film & Television Studies: Core Course
  • Honours teaching: Screen Audiences; Feminist Film Theory
  • Level 2: Spectatorship, Audiences & Identities 

Administration

  • Convenor of Postgraduate Committee, School of Culture and Creative Arts
  • Convenor MLitt Film & Television Studies

External Responsibilities