School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr Melanie Selfe

  • Lecturer (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

telephone: 01413302288
email: Melanie.Selfe@glasgow.ac.uk


Research Interests

Melanie’s research has explored the cultivation and development of ‘quality’ film culture, and the British reception of international cinema. She has approached these topics through historical studies and through qualitative research with contemporary audiences, exploring the evolving relationships between cultural organisations, professional criticism, pedagogy, and interpretative practice. Particular areas of interest include the differences between metropolitan and regional versions of highbrow culture; mapping the impact of central arts policy in diverse locations; and investigating the relationship between amateur and professional status in the production, consumption and criticism of the arts.

Biography

Melanie Selfe graduated in Film and Television Studies in 2002 (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), obtaining AHRC funding to pursue postgraduate study. She completed a Film Studies MA at the University of Nottingham in 2003, transferring to UEA to undertake a PhD. In 2006 she spent seven months working as RA on a study exploring audience responses to films containing scenes of sexual violence. This was led by Prof. Martin Barker and funded by the BBFC. She joined the Centre in September 2007.

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2013

Selfe, M. (2013) Reading the geographies of post-war British film culture through the reception of French film. New Review of Film and Television Studies . ISSN 1740 0309 (In Press)

2012

Selfe, M. (2012) The view from outside London: the centre and the regions 1960-1980. In: Nowell-Smith, G. and Dupin, C. (eds.) The British Film Institute: The Government and Film Culture 1933-2007. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. (In Press)

Selfe, M. (2012) Circles, columns and screenings: mapping the institutional, discursive, physical and gendered spaces of film criticism in 1940s London. Journal of British Cinema and Television . ISSN 1743-4521 (In Press)

2011

Selfe, M. (2011) ‘Intolerable flippancy’: the Arnot Robertson v. MGM libel case (1946-1950) and the evolution of BBC policy on broadcast film criticism. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 31 (3). ISSN 0143-9685 (doi:10.1080/01439685.2011.597995)

2010

Selfe, M. (2010) ‘Incredibly French’?: Nation as an interpretative context for extreme cinema. In: Mazdon, L. and Wheatley, C. (eds.) Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relation. Berghahn Books, New York, USA. ISBN 9781845457495

2009

Selfe, M. (2009) Putting film on Nottingham’s cultural map: film production and the festival of Britain. In: Craven, I. (ed.) Movies on Home Ground : Explorations in Amateur Cinema. Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle, pp. 130-155. ISBN 9781443813440

2008

Selfe, M. (2008) Inflected accounts and irreversible journeys. Participations, 5 (1).

2007

Selfe, M. (2007) 'Doing the work of the NFT in Nottingham' or how to use the BFI to beat the Communist threat in your local film society. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 4 (1). pp. 80-101. ISSN 1743-4521

Barker, M., Mathijs, E., Sexton, J., Egan , K., Hunter , R., and Selfe, M. (2007) Audiences and Receptions of Sexual Violence in Contemporary Cinema. Project Report. British Board of Film Classification, London, UK.

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  • 2009 Carnegie Trust: to facilitate an archival study of the mediated performance of film criticism in post-war Britain (£1630)

Conference Presentations

Since September 2007:

  • 'Critics On the Air: BBC policy and the performance of film critique' 　presented as part of a panel 'Performing Film Criticism 1945-1959' at Screen, Glasgow, July 2010.
  • ‘Film Criticism in the Dock: Examining the proper performance of cultural critique in postwar Britain’ presented at SCMS, Los Angeles, March 2010.
  • ‘Film Critics in the Circle: negotiating professional standards, prestige and strength’ presented at MeCCSA, LSE, January 2010.
  • ‘Marketing, Musicals and the Ultimate Salesman: Conquering the Crash with branded and flexible product placement’ – presented at the 50th Screen Conference, University of Glasgow, July 2009.
  • ‘A Regional National Film Theatre in Glasgow: making a cultural statement on two national stages’ – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies: Locating Media,  University of Lund, June 2009.
  • ‘The Shifting Cultural Politics of Subsidised Exhibition’ – presented at MeCCSA 2009, University of Bradford, January 2009.
  • ‘“Incredibly French”: Nation as an interpretative context for extreme cinema’ – presented at Anglo/French Cinematic Relations, Southampton, September 2007.