Stephenson, Dr Lauren

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Name:

Stephenson, Dr Lauren

Email:

l.stephenson@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy

Biography

Expertise:

Horror Cinema, Women in Horror, Screening Women's friendship in American cinema, Cinema and Social Justice, Hauntology

Job title:

Senior Lecturer in Film Studies

Biography:

I was appointed Lecturer in Film Studies at York St. John in January 2019, after three years with the university as a Visiting Lecturer in Film and Media studies. My main area of interest is the Horror film. I completed my PhD in June 2018, and my thesis explored the British 'Hoodie horror' film cycle and its treatment of gender and class. My current research projects concern cinema and social justice, hauntology and children's horror, and postfeminist horror.

Qualifications:

PhD in Film Studies (2018) Fellow of the HEA (2018)

My Latest

Stephenson, Lauren (2024) Eat the Rich: The Monstrous Super-Wealthy in Contemporary Horror Cinema. In: Rawle, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7908-8249 and Hall, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5671-8175, (eds.) Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature. Cambridge Scholars
Stephenson, Lauren (2023) Restoring Relics: Re-releasing Antrum (2018) and film as folk horror. In: Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Johnson, Wayne, (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror. Routledge, pp. 173-180
Stephenson, Lauren (2022) Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and the politics of female friendship. In: Hall, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5671-8175, (ed.) Women in the Work of Woody Allen. Transgressive Media Culture . Amsterdam University Press, pp. 79-98
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Stephenson, Lauren ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-0043 and Marland, John (2024) Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Television. Bloomsbury
Stephenson, Lauren ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-0043 (2021) Eden Lake and the British ‘hoodie horror’ genre: how they reinforced policies to demonise the working class. The Conversation.
Stephenson, Lauren ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-0043 (2020) British 'Hoodie' Horror. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic. Palgrave, pp. 193-210
Stephenson, Lauren ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-0043 (2019) “I’m pissed off, and I’m angry, and we need your permission to kill someone”: Frustrated Masculinities in Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set (2008). In: Gerrard, Steven, Holland, Samantha and Shail, Robert, (eds.) Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television. Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender . Emerald, pp. 107-116

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	“I’m pissed off, and I’m angry, and we need your permission to kill someone”: Frustrated Masculinities in Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set (2008).	119	99
2	British 'Hoodie' Horror	90	180
3	Eden Lake and the British ‘hoodie horror’ genre: how they reinforced policies to demonise the working class	77	145
4	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and the politics of female friendship	73	29
5	Eat the Rich: The Monstrous Super-Wealthy in Contemporary Horror Cinema	37
6	Restoring Relics: Re-releasing Antrum (2018) and film as folk horror	33	2