| Post: | Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Cultural Studies (Media and Film, The Centre for Visual Fields) |
| Other posts: | Lecturer in Media and Film Studies (Centre for the History of War and Society) |
| Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies (Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence) | |
| Location: | Silverstone Edb 331 |
| Email: | A.Medhurst@sussex.ac.uk |
Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 7787 |
| UK: | (01273) 877787 |
| International: | +44 1273 877787 |
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Role
Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Cultural Studies
Departmental Research Student Convenor
Andy's main research interests are British popular culture (both contemporary and historical), gender and sexuality, the genre of comedy and constructions of Englishness. He has supervised/is supervising postgraduate research on a diverse range of topics including comedy and the fat female body; the aesthetics of music video; gay men's use of the internet; the British horror film; the work of the British pop artist Vivian Stanshall; the politics of children's cinema; women's relationship to television in the 1950s; the concept of New Queer Cinema; representations in, and readings of, 'polysexual television'; discourses of success and failure in contemporary celebrity culture; horror and the body in film and literature; queer masculinities and fashion culture; questions of identity in television sketch comedy; and British cinema and Thatcherism. He has supervised more successfully completed Sussex theses than any other current member of the department and is presently Research Student Convenor for the department. He is always interested in hearing from potential research students with ideas for interesting, interdisciplinary projects.
Andy currently convenes and teaches three undergraduate seminar courses: Contemporary British Cinema, Theory Taste and Trash and Comedy and Cultural Belonging, and one MA option, Queering Popular Culture. He also contributes lectures to first-year Media and Film courses. For details of research student supervision, see under Research Interests.
He has been the External Examiner for Media & Cultural Studies BA and MA degrees at five other British universities. He has examined PhD theses at several universities including Lancaster, London, Kent and Bristol.
Related work
Andy has also written reviews and cultural journalism for many publications (including Sight and Sound, The Wire, New Statesman, Gay Times, The Face, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and The Observer) and contributes frequently to arts and current affairs programmes on both radio (such as Thinking Aloud, Front Row, Today and Nightwaves) and television (such as Timewatch, The Late Show and Without Walls).
Medhurst, Andy (2010) Coronation Street. BFI TV Classics . British Film Institute, London. ISBN 9781844573332