Professor Karen Lury
- Professor of Film & Television Studies (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
telephone: 01413305369
email: Karen.Lury@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Office hours: please email for an appointment
Research Interests
Children’s film and media.
Screen Performance
Amateur film and media.
Publications
2019
Lury, K. (Ed.) (2019) The Child in Cinema. Palgrave MacMillan. (In Press)
Lury, K. (2019) The BBC's Children in Need telethon: the currencies of compassion. In: Bonah, C. and Laukoetter, A. (eds.) Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam. (In Press)
2018
Lury, K. (2018) The Involuntary Dance: child actors, fidgeting and authenticity. In: Henzler, B. and Pauleit, W. (eds.) Childhood, Cinema and Film Aesthetics. Bertz + Fischer: Berlin, pp. 85-100. ISBN 9783865052575
Lury, K. (2018) An inconvenient growth: watching child actors, growing up, sideways and backwards in contemporary British film and television. In: Dintner, S. and Schneider, R. (eds.) Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain. Series: Studies in childhood, 1700 to present. Routledge: New York ; London, pp. 103-119. ISBN 9781138232105
2016
Lury, K. (2016) 'A constellation of incongruities': the amateur film and the trip to the zoo. In: Lawrence, M. and Lury, K. (eds.) The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter. Series: Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, pp. 3-21. ISBN 9781137543424 (doi:10.1057/978-1-137-53561-0_1)
Lawrence, M. and Lury, K. (Eds.) (2016) The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter. Series: Screening spaces. Palgrave Macmillan: New York. ISBN 9781137543424
Holdsworth, A. and Lury, K. (2016) Growing up and growing old with television: peripheral viewers and the centrality of care. Screen, 57(2), pp. 184-196. (doi:10.1093/screen/hjw019)
Lury, K. (2016) The Queen has two bodies: amateur film, civic culture and the rehearsal of monarchy. In: Merck, M. (ed.) British Monarchy on Screen. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719099564
2015
Bergfelder, T., Butler, A., Eleftheriotis, D. , Lury, K. , Phillips, A., Stacey, J. and Street, S. (2015) Screen [Issue editor]. Screen, 56(2),
Lury, K. (2015) Der Amateurfilm and der Zoobeusch. In: Mattl, S., Lesky, C. and Ohner, V. (eds.) Abenteur Alltag: zur archaologie des Amateurfilms. Series: FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen (25). Austrian Film museum: Austria, pp. 99-111. ISBN 9783901644634
2014
Lury, K. (2014) Short takes. In: Marshall, L. and Laing, D. (eds.) Popular Music Matters: essays in honour of Simon Frith. Series: Ashgate popular and folk music series. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 94-96. ISBN 9781472421791
2013
Lury, K. (2013) Halfway down the stairs: children's spaces in amateur family films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Home Cultures, 10(3), pp. 267-287. (doi:10.2752/175174213X13739735973417)
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. ISBN 9780748656349 (doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748656349.003.0013)
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. (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. ISBN 9781845119676
Lury, K. (2010) Children in an open world: Mobility as ontology in new Iranian and Turkish cinema. Feminist Theory, 11(3), pp. 283-294. (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. (doi:10.1515/SEMI.2009.023)
2007
Lury, K.E. (2007) A response to John Corner. Screen, 48(3), pp. 371-376. (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.
2003
Lury, K.E. (2003) Closeup: documentary aesthetics (textual properties that are intrinsic to television). Screen, 44(1), pp. 101-105. (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. (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
Articles
Holdsworth, A. and Lury, K. (2016) Growing up and growing old with television: peripheral viewers and the centrality of care. Screen, 57(2), pp. 184-196. (doi:10.1093/screen/hjw019)
Bergfelder, T., Butler, A., Eleftheriotis, D. , Lury, K. , Phillips, A., Stacey, J. and Street, S. (2015) Screen [Issue editor]. Screen, 56(2),
Lury, K. (2013) Halfway down the stairs: children's spaces in amateur family films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Home Cultures, 10(3), pp. 267-287. (doi:10.2752/175174213X13739735973417)
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. (doi:10.3366/jbctv.2011.0031)
Lury, K. (2010) Children in an open world: Mobility as ontology in new Iranian and Turkish cinema. Feminist Theory, 11(3), pp. 283-294. (doi:10.1177/1464700110376279)
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. (doi:10.1515/SEMI.2009.023)
Lury, K.E. (2007) A response to John Corner. Screen, 48(3), pp. 371-376. (doi:10.1093/screen/hjm036)
Lury, K.E. (2005) The child in film and television: introduction. Screen, 46(3), pp. 307-314.
Lury, K.E. (2003) Closeup: documentary aesthetics (textual properties that are intrinsic to television). Screen, 44(1), pp. 101-105. (doi:10.1093/screen/44.1.101)
Lury, K.E. (2002) Chewing gum for the ears: children's television and popular music. Popular Music, 21(3), pp. 291-307. (doi:10.1017/S0261143002002192)
Books
Lury, K. (2010) The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairytales. I.B. Tauris: London. ISBN 9781845119676
Lury, K.E. (2005) Interpreting Television. Hodder Education: Hodder Arnold. ISBN 0340806133
Lury, K.E. (2001) British Youth Television: Cynicism and Enchantment. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198159706
Book Sections
Lury, K. (2019) The BBC's Children in Need telethon: the currencies of compassion. In: Bonah, C. and Laukoetter, A. (eds.) Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam. (In Press)
Lury, K. (2018) The Involuntary Dance: child actors, fidgeting and authenticity. In: Henzler, B. and Pauleit, W. (eds.) Childhood, Cinema and Film Aesthetics. Bertz + Fischer: Berlin, pp. 85-100. ISBN 9783865052575
Lury, K. (2018) An inconvenient growth: watching child actors, growing up, sideways and backwards in contemporary British film and television. In: Dintner, S. and Schneider, R. (eds.) Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain. Series: Studies in childhood, 1700 to present. Routledge: New York ; London, pp. 103-119. ISBN 9781138232105
Lury, K. (2016) 'A constellation of incongruities': the amateur film and the trip to the zoo. In: Lawrence, M. and Lury, K. (eds.) The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter. Series: Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, pp. 3-21. ISBN 9781137543424 (doi:10.1057/978-1-137-53561-0_1)
Lury, K. (2016) The Queen has two bodies: amateur film, civic culture and the rehearsal of monarchy. In: Merck, M. (ed.) British Monarchy on Screen. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719099564
Lury, K. (2015) Der Amateurfilm and der Zoobeusch. In: Mattl, S., Lesky, C. and Ohner, V. (eds.) Abenteur Alltag: zur archaologie des Amateurfilms. Series: FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen (25). Austrian Film museum: Austria, pp. 99-111. ISBN 9783901644634
Lury, K. (2014) Short takes. In: Marshall, L. and Laing, D. (eds.) Popular Music Matters: essays in honour of Simon Frith. Series: Ashgate popular and folk music series. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 94-96. ISBN 9781472421791
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. ISBN 9780748656349 (doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748656349.003.0013)
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
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
Edited Books
Lury, K. (Ed.) (2019) The Child in Cinema. Palgrave MacMillan. (In Press)
Lawrence, M. and Lury, K. (Eds.) (2016) The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter. Series: Screening spaces. Palgrave Macmillan: New York. ISBN 9781137543424
Grants
- 2015 Leverhulme Trust (awarded December 2014, as PI) ‘Collections: an Enlightenment Pedagogy for the 21st Century’: £1,050,000 over 60 months, first cohort, October 2015.
- 2010 AHRC Research Grant (as PI) ‘Children and Amateur Media in Scotland: £584, 152 (2010-2014)
- 2010 British Academy Travel Grant: £400 March 2010 (U.S. conference attendance)
- 2008 AHRC Research Leave 24/09/2007-23/01/08 (with matched University support)
- 2006 British Academy Travel Grant: £400 May 2006 (U.S. conference attendance)
- 2002 AHRB Research Leave 31/03/02-30/06/02 (with matched University support)
Supervision
Karen has supervised over 10 students to completion.
- Chandler, Alex
Testing the limits of the ‘hard man’ in film: masculinity and male health behaviour in Scotland’s public health films 1934-2000
Teaching
Level 1: Reading the Screen
Children’s Television
Animation
Screen Performance
Additional Information
- Dean of Research, College of Arts (2014-2017)
- AHRC advisory board member (2015-)
- Editor, Screen
R333 Level 3, TFTV Studies, Gilmorehill Halls, Glasgow G12 8QQ,