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

Stella Bruzzi's most recent publication is a study of the seminal British television series Seven Up, for the BFI's Television Classics series. She is currently completing a study of masculinity and mise-en-scene for 2008, which follows on in many ways from the book Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood, published in 2005. Stella's main areas of research interest are gender and identity in film, particularly masculinity; documentary film and television; fashion and costume. She is on the editorial board of Studies in Documentary and is on the organising panel for the Visible Evidence Conference (2008).

Stella is 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 Postwar 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:

• ‘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)
• ‘The Cobweb’, Cineaction Summer 2004.
• ‘Gregory Peck: anti-fashion icon’, in Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity (ed. Rachel Moseley, BFI 2005)
  

Teaching and Supervision

This year she is teaching on Modes of Reading and Hollywood 2 (Masculinity). She is currently supervising PhDs on: costume in contemporary Hollywood, Luchino Visconti and definitions of neorealism, adultery in the films of Rohmer and Truffaut and the family in 1990s Hollywood. She is particularly interested in supervising PhDs in the areas of documentary, representations of reality, gender and sexuality.