School of Culture and Creative Arts

Prof Karen Lury

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  • Professor (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

telephone: 01413305369
email: Karen.Lury@glasgow.ac.uk


Office hours: please email for an appointment

Research Interests

Karen's most recent monograph is The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairytales, published in 2010 by I. B. Tauris (and Rutgers University Press) and she is currently editing a new anthology, The Child in Cinema, for BFI/Palgrave due to be published in 2013. Her own research in to questions of the representation of childhood and children on screen is now primarily related to her AHRC funded project 'Children and Amateur Media in Scotland' where she is working in collaboration with Dr Ryan Shand and the Scottish Screen Archive.

Jump to: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2007 | 2005 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001
Number of items: 13.

2012

Lury, K. (2012) The fragile magic of the home: Amateur domestic comedies and the intimate geography of childhood. In: Craven, I. and Shand, R. (eds.) Small Gauge Storytelling: Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film. Edinburgh University Press. (In Press)

2011

Lury, K. (2011) In thrall to the archives of empire: Torchwood - 'Children of Earth'. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 8 (2). pp. 252-271. ISSN 1743-4521 (doi:10.3366/jbctv.2011.0031)

Lury, K. (2011) The "basis for mutual contempt": the loss of the contingent in digital television. In: Bennett, J. and Strange, N. (eds.) Television as Digital Media. Series: Console-ing passions . Duke University Press, Durham, NC, pp. 181-203. ISBN 9780822348870

2010

Lury, K. (2010) The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairytales. I B Tauris, London, UK. ISBN 9781845119676

Lury, K. (2010) Children in an open world: Mobility as ontology in new Iranian and Turkish cinema. Feminist Theory, 11 (3). 283-294 . ISSN 1464-7001 (doi:10.1177/1464700110376279)

2009

Lury, K.E. (2009) 'For crying out loud': the repression of the child's subjectivity in The House of Tiny Tearaways. Semiotica, 173 (1-4). pp. 491-507. ISSN 0037-1998 (doi:10.1515/SEMI.2009.023)

2007

Lury, K.E. (2007) A response to John Corner. Screen, 48 (3). pp. 371-376. ISSN 0036-9543 (doi:10.1093/screen/hjm036)

2005

Lury, K.E. (2005) Interpreting Television. Hodder Education: Hodder Arnold. ISBN 0340806133

Lury, K.E. (2005) The child in film and television: introduction. Screen, 46 (3). pp. 307-314. ISSN 0036-9543

2003

Lury, K.E. (2003) Closeup: documentary aesthetics (textual properties that are intrinsic to television). Screen, 44 (1). pp. 101-105. ISSN 0036-9543 (doi:10.1093/screen/44.1.101)

2002

Lury, K.E. (2002) Chewing gum for the ears: children's television and popular music. Popular Music, 21 (3). pp. 291-307. ISSN 1474-0095 (doi:10.1017/S0261143002002192)

Lury, K.E. (2002) A time and place for everything: children's channels. In: Buckingham, D. (ed.) Small Screens: Television for Children. Leicester University Press, pp. 15-37. ISBN 0826459447

2001

Lury, K.E. (2001) British Youth Television: Cynicism and Enchantment. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198159706

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Karen is currently supervising a number of research students who address topics across film, television and experimental media. She has successfully supervised a wide range of PhDs including one AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with Children’s BBC at BBC Scotland. Other students have successfully completed doctorates on the Hollywood star system, television 'affect', sound and memory in ‘minor cinemas', New Zealand film as well as television documentary and performance.

Completed PhD students have worked on areas such as contemporary screen performance and popular music.

Current PhD students

  • Stuart Bell, ‘Endings in and on television’
  • Amanda Ejubo ‘Documentary techniques and aesthetics’
  • Nessa Johnston ‘Sound in Lo-fi Digital Cinema’
  • Gillian Kelly, ‘A Taylor Made Star: Robert Taylor, MGM and the Hollywood Studio System’
  • Ming-Yu Lee, ‘Experimental film, home movies and the new generation of Taiwanese film-makers’
  • Maggie Sweeney, ‘Media representations of crime and childhood in the post-millennium age’
  • Helen Wright, ‘Paul Verhovoen as queer auteur’

 

Within the Film and TV Honours programme, Karen introduces students to the study of television on the Level One course and teaches a range of Honours options, including TV Analysis and Screen Performance. In other years she has taught options on Children’s Television, Animation and Hollywood in the 1930s.

She supervises undergraduate and MLitt dissertations on a host of different subjects such as: male comedy double acts, viral video, Japanese anime, representations of the Holocaust and the audiences for Disney’s 'High School Musical'.

 

Administration


  • Research Convenor, School of Culture & Creative Arts
  • Post-Graduate Research convenor for FTV

External Responsibilities

  • Karen is an editor of the international film and television studies journal, Screen and a contributing editor to the journal Critical Studies in Television.
  • She is currently a member of the peer review college for the AHRC and she also regularly reviews submissions to the journals Theory, Culture and Society and Media, Culture & Society.
  • She is a member of the editorial board for the BFI/Palgrave series of ‘TV Classics’.