Chair of the Faculty of Arts

Contact Details

Department of Film and Television Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL UK

Tel: +44 24 7652 2436
Fax:+44 24 7652 4757
Email: S.Bruzzi@warwick.ac.uk

Research Profile

My main areas of research interest are gender and identity in film, particularly masculinity; documentary film and television; fashion and costume; film television and the law. I am on the advisory board of Studies in Documentary and the BFI's Television Classics series. My most recent publication is 'Men's Cinema', a 35,000-word study of masculinity and mise-en-scene in Hollywood cinema for Wallflower Press's Close-Up series and I am currently working on or have recently completed articles on Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema, Hollywood and the New Look, the representation of the legal system in Fritz Lang's Fury and British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield.

I am co-organiser of The Future of Fashion Studies: A Fashion Network.

Publications include:

Books:

• Seven Up (BFI, 2007)
• New Documentary (2nd edition, Routledge 2006)
• Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Post-war Hollywood (BFI, 2005)
• New Documentary: A Critical Introduction (Routledge 2000)
• Fashion Cultures: Theories, Histories and Analysis (co-edited with Pamela Church Gibson, Routledge 2000)
• Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies (Routledge, 1997)

Articles/chapters:

• 'Men's Cinema', Close-Up 3 (Wallflower Press, 2009)
• 'Where Are Those Buggers?: Aspects of Homosexuality in Mainstream British Cinema' British Cinema Book, 3rd edition (BFI/Palgrave, 2009)
  
• ‘Gregory Peck: anti-fashion icon’, in Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity (ed. Rachel Moseley, BFI 2005)
• ‘The Cobweb’, Cineaction Summer 2004.
• ‘Fashion is the Fifth Character: Fashion, costume and character in Sex and the City’ (with Pamela Church Gibson), in Reading Sex and the City (eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe, I B Tauris, 2004)
  
  

Teaching and Supervision

This year I am teaching Hollywood 2 (Masculinity). I am currently supervising PhDs on: the mockumentary, the agitational documentary 'prank' film, representations of the American presidency, recent mainstream lesbian representation and costume, post-Pinochet Chilean documentary and adultery in the films of Rohmer and Truffaut. Recently completed PhD students' research areas include: the family in 1990s Hollywood and costume and gender in contemporary Hollywood.