Dr. Paula Quigley

Paula Quigley is Head of Film and former Director of Teaching and Learning (Postgraduate) and Director of the MPhil in Film Studies (2006-2022) at the School of Creative Arts. She has published on a wide range of topics in film studies, including the work of Sergei Eisenstein and André Bazin, the impact of psychoanalysis on film theory, and studies of the short film. In addition, she has published on issues of genre and gender, with a focus on iterations of the 'woman's film' in diverse cinematic and cultural contexts. Recent research includes an examination of 'face politics' in the films of Lynne Ramsay and an exploration of maternal gothic/horror cinema. Current research projects include analyses of the work of prominent women filmmakers Ava DuVernay, Emerald Fennell, Greta Gerwig, and Chloé Zhao. Dr. Quigley welcomes enquiries from research students interested in working on film theory, film style, film performance, genre, gender, women and film, feminism and postfeminism, melodrama, female gothic, and various aspects of Hollywood cinema and European cinema.

  European Cinema   Film and Gender   Film Theory and Philosophy   Hollywood Cinema