Dr Simon Brown

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About

I am associate professor of Film and Television and joined Kingston Universityin 2004 after spending a decade at the BFI National Film and Television Archive, sourcing and restoring old films. From that work came my love of film history, and also my PHD which was on the early years of the British film industry. Over the course of my career, I've written about and taught a range of Film, TV and Media related subjects such as Film History and Technology, National Cinemas including Britain, China and Hong Kong, Cult Film and Television, Horror, Adaptation, Censorship, Documentary and the History of Non-Fiction Film, Archiving and the Media Industry as well as Contemporary American Film and Television. I currently teach on the BA Creative Writing (Film Pathway) and on the MA Film Studies. I am also the PGR Co-ordinator for the School of Creative and Cultural Industries. 

Academic responsibilities

Associate professor

Teaching and learning

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

My main areas of research are around film and television history and technology, genre, and adaptation. I have written extensively on various aspects of film and TV history, including the development of colour cinematography up to the arrival of Technicolor in the 1930s, the rise and fall of 3D television, and in particular the development of the film industry in the UK from its beginnings in 1895 through to the First World War. MY particular focus in this area was the pioneer filmmaker Cecil Hepworth, who was based close to Kingston in Walton on Thames. My recent film research has revolved around the horror genre and adaptation, focussing mainly on films adapted from the written works of Stephen King. In terms of TV, I have written extensively about cult tv shows such as Dexter, The X-Files, Under the Dome, and about cult networks like Showtime and Fox. 

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Publications

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Number of items: 36.

Article

(2017) Pennywise Dreadful, 1(1), pp. 42-56.

(2017) Horror Studies, 8(2), p. 223. ISSN (print) 2040-3275

(2017) Science Fiction Film and Television, 10(2), pp. 267-283. ISSN (print) 1754-3770

(2013) Critical Studies in Television, 8(3), pp. 33-46. ISSN (print) 1749-6020

(2013) Early Popular Visual Culture, 11(2), pp. 100-112. ISSN (print) 1746-0654

(2013) Science Fiction Film and Television, 6(1), pp. 7-22. ISSN (print) 1754-3770

(2011) International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen, 4(1), ISSN (online) 2046-5602

(2009) Journal of British Cinema and Television, 6(1), pp. 141-143. ISSN (print) 1743-4521

(2009) Film History: an International Journal, 21(2), pp. 139-149. ISSN (print) 0892-2160

(2007) Film Studies, 10, pp. 21-33. ISSN (print) 1469-0314

(2005) Journal of British Cinema and Television, 2(2), pp. 299-309. ISSN (print) 1743-4521

(2005) Early Popular Visual Culture, 3(2), pp. 165-178. ISSN (print) 1746-0654

(2003) Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: a journal of criticism and theory, 5(1), pp. 78-88. ISSN (print) 1524-8429

Book

(2019) Leighton Buzzard : Auteur Press. (Devil's Advocate) ISBN 9781911325918

(2019) Leighton Buzzard : Auteur Publishing. 106p. (Devil's Advocates) ISBN 9781911325918

(2018) Austin, U.S. : University of Texas Press. 240p. ISBN 9781477314920

(2016) Exeter, U.K. : University of Exeter Press. 256p. (Exeter studies in film history) ISBN 9780859898904

Brown, Simon , Street, Sarah and Watkins, Liz, eds. (2013) London, U.K. : British Film Institute. 280p. ISBN 9781844574148

Abbott, Stacey and Brown, Simon, eds. (2007) London, U.K. : I. B. Tauris. 238p. (Investigating cult TV) ISBN 9781845114053

Book Section

(2023) In: Bacon, Simon, (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire. London, U.K. : Palgrave McMillan Cham. (Epub Ahead of Print)

Abbott, Stacey and (2021) In: Spooner, Catherine and Townshend, Dale, (eds.) Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. pp. 22-42. (The Cambridge History of the Gothic, 3) ISBN 9781108624268

(2019) In: Piatti-Farnell, Lorna, (ed.) Gothic afterlives : reincarnations of horror in film and television. Lanham, Maryland, U.S. : Lexington Books. (In Press)

and Abbott, Stacey (2019) In: Kaklamanidoy, Betty, (ed.) Adaptation 4.0 : a state of polymorphia. Detroit, U.S. : Wayne State University Press. (In Press)

(2019) In: Bacon, Simon, (ed.) Horror: a Companion. Oxford : Peter Lang. pp. 235-240. ISBN 9781787079199

(2012) In: Brown, Simon , Street, Sarah and Watkins, Liz, (eds.) Color and the moving image: history, theory, aesthetics, archive. Oxford, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 13-22. (AFI Film Readers) ISBN 9780415892643

(2012) In: Lamberti, Edward, (ed.) Behind the scenes at the BBFC : film classification from the silver screen to the digital age. London, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 3-14. ISBN 9781844574766

(2011) In: Abbott, Stacey and Lavery, David, (eds.) TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural. Toronto, Canada : ECW Press. pp. 60-74. ISBN 9781770410206

(2010) In: Abbott, Stacey, (ed.) The cult TV book. London, U.K. : I.B. Tauris. pp. 155-162. (Investigating Cult TV) ISBN 9781848850262

(2010) In: Abbott, Stacey, (ed.) The cult TV book. London, U.K. : I.B. Tauris. pp. 163-166. (Investigating Cult TV) ISBN 9781848850262

and Abbott, Stacey (2010) In: Howard, Douglas L., (ed.) Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television. London, U.K. : I.B. Tauris. pp. 205-220. (Investigating Cult TV) ISBN 9781848852655

and Abbott, Stacey (2007) In: Abbott, Stacey and Brown, Simon, (eds.) Investigating Alias: secrets and spies. London, U.K. : I. B. Tauris. pp. 87-100. (Investigating cult TV) ISBN 9781845114053

and Abbott, Stacey (2007) In: Abbott, Stacey and Brown, Simon, (eds.) Investigating Alias: secrets and spies. London, U.K. : I. B. Tauris. pp. 1-8. (Investigating cult TV) ISBN 9781845114053

(2007) In: Porter, Laraine and Dixon, Bryony, (eds.) Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema before 1930. Exeter, U.K. : The Exeter Press. pp. 29-36. ISBN 9781905816019

Conference or Workshop Item

(2015) In: Open graves, open minds : The company of wolves : Sociality, animality, and subjectivity in literary and cultural narratives - werewolves, shapeshifters, and feral humans; 03 - 05 Sep 2015, Hatfield, U.K.. (Unpublished)

[Speaker] (2008) In: Rats, Rascals and Ruffians: the Globalisation of Crime and the British Silent Film : 11th British Silent Cinema Festival; 03 - 06 Apr 2008, Nottingham, U.K.. (Unpublished)

[Speaker] (2004) In: 鈥楪oodbye to all that鈥� British Silent Cinema and World War I; 05-19 Apr 2004, Nottingham, U.K.. (Unpublished)

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