Professor of Film & Television Studies
Contact Details
Department of Film and Television Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL UK
Tel: +44 24 7652 3511
Fax:+44 24 7652 4757
Email: C.M.Brunsdon@warwick.ac.uk
Research Profile
Charlotte Brunsdon has analysed television and film cultures in books and articles on topics ranging from
London
in cinema to public debates about the erection of satellite dishes. Her most recent book is a study of G.F.Newman’s controversial 1978 television series about the British criminal justice system, Law and Order and she is currently developing a study of the sites and spaces of British film and television. She first began research on television in the 1970s at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham
, and retains an interest in the contested legitimacy of the study of audio-visual media within the academy, first pursued in early research on popular television and books such The Feminist, the Housewife and the Soap Opera.
Charlotte Brunsdon has taught visiting semesters in the USA at
Duke
University
and the University
of Wisconsin-Madison
, and been visiting scholar at other universities including Stockholm
, Queensland
, Southern California, New York
, Northwestern, and Murcia. She is a founder member of the Midlands Television Research Group, and with John Caughie, edited the book series, Oxford Television Studies, also serving on the editorial boards of Visual Culture in Britain, Film Quarterly, Screen and Feminist Media Studies.
Books
Law and Order BFI Television Classic ( London
: Palgrave/ Macmillan, 2010)
London
in Cinema: the cinematic city since 1945 ( London
: BFI, 2007)
The Feminist, the Housewife and the Soap Opera, ( Oxford
: Clarendon Press, 2000) Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes, (London: Routledge, 1997)
Feminist Television Criticism (1st edn), co-edited with Julie D’Acci and Lynn Spigel (Oxford University Press, 1997); 2nd edn, co- edited with Lynn Spigel (Open University Press, 2007)
Films for Women (editor) (London: BFI, 1986)
Everyday Television: Nationwide (with David Morley), London
: BFI, 1978.
Recent Publications
The following short essays are available via Warwick University's Research Archive Portal. These papers are published articles and extracts from publications, and have varying degrees of access depending on individual publishers' access rules. They are listed here with their full publication details, so if you can't get them from WRAP, you can go to the original source.
Brunsdon, Charlotte (2008) 'In the dark : the BFI archive'. Cinema Journal, Vol.47 (No.4). pp. 152-155. ISSN 1527-2087
Brunsdon, Charlotte (2009) 'Television criticism and the transformation of the archive'. Television & New Media, Vol.10 (No.1). pp. 28-30. ISSN 1527-4764
Teaching and Supervision
Charlotte Brunsdon has developed and taught a wide range of courses, including ‘Modernity, Innovation and the Audio-visual Media’ and ‘The Cinema and the City’ for the
Warwick
MA
, and undergraduate courses on ‘Theories of the Moving Image’ and ‘Film and Television Culture in Britain’. She has successfully supervised a large number of Phd theses on both film and television, and several former Phd students now have successful academic careers. Recent Phd topics include ‘Television and Memory’, ‘Paranoid conspiracy in British television series’, ‘Public service cinema’ and ‘Cinephilia and the Digital’.
