Prof Sue Thornham

Role

Sue Thornham is Professor of Media and Film and Head of the Department of Media and Film.

Her research interests focus on feminist theory and its applications to film, media and cultural studies. She welcomes doctoral applicants in these areas. 

She teaches British Cinema, Film Theory and Viewing Women on the Department's undergraduate degree programmes, and Feminism and Film on its MA programmes.

Thornham, Sue (2013) Rebranding feminism: post-feminism, popular culture and the Academy. In: Renewing feminisms: radical narratives, fantasies and futures in Media Studies. I B Tauris, London and New York, pp. 32-46. ISBN 978-1848858251

Thornham, Sue (2013) 'A hatred so intense….' 'We need to talk about Kevin,' postfeminism and women's cinema. Sequence: serial studies in Media, Film and Music, 2 (1). ISSN 2042-3033

Thornham, Sue (2012) What if I had been the hero?: investigating women's cinema. British Film Institute, London. ISBN 9781844573639

Thornham, Sue (2011) Media and feminism. In: Media and society. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 63-82. ISBN 9780340984451

Thornham, Sue (2010) Unbridgeable gaps. Psychoanalysis Culture and Society, 15 (4). pp. 385-392. ISSN 1088-0763

Thornham, Sue and Pengpeng, Feng (2010) "Just a Slogan" Individualism, Post-feminism and Female Subjectivity in Consumerist China. Feminist Media Studies, 10 (2). 195 -211. ISSN 1468-0777

Bassett, Caroline (2009) The media studies: a reader. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748637843