Dr Keith McDonald

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Name:

Dr Keith McDonald

Email:

K.McDonald@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Humanities

Organisation:

York St John University

Address:

Lord Mayor's Walk York YO31 7EX

Country:

England

Biography

Expertise:

Film and Screen Studies, Transnational Culture, Genre Fiction, Space, Place and Memory, Hauntology and nostalgia, Stardom

Job title:

Senior Lecture in Film Studies and Media

Biography:

Keith McDonald holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London, and is a senior lecturer at York St John University. His publications include Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film: Transnational Perspectives (Anthem 2021) and Guillermo del Toro: Film as Alchemic Art (Bloomsbury: 2015). He is currently co-writing a book named The Spectral West: Surer Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film (Anthem, 2025). Research interests include Gothic and Horror Film, popular culture and genre, hauntology, fan cultures and Transnational Cinema.

Qualifications:

2000-2006 Birkbeck,University of London Supervised by Professor Roger Luckhurst PhD in Literature and Film Studies Thesis Title: AIDS and Representation in Literature, Theatre and Film 2009-2011 PGCE University of Huddersfield 1998-1999 University of Liverpool MA Science Fiction Studies (Distinction) Dissertation: Science Fiction Film and Landscape 1995-1998 Liverpool John Moores University BA English Literature and Cultural Studies

My Latest

McDonald, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-5963 (2023) Westworld at 50: Michael Crichton’s AI dystopia was ahead of its time. The Conversation.
McDonald, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-5963 (2008) Film and Television Textual Analysis. 1 ed. Leighton Buzzard, Auteur Press
McDonald, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-5963 (2018) Memoir, Melancholia and Nostalgia. In: ‘Twisting my Memory Man’ conference, York St John University, 9 Jun 2018, York St John. (Unpublished)
McDonald, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-5963 (2022) Bleak Adventures and Nostalgia in Kenneth Johnson's 'V'. In: Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Fiction, 21 May 2022, York St John University. (Submitted)
McDonald, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-5963 (2007) The Host (Gwoemul). The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (3). pp. 113-115.
McDonald, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-5963 (2023) Oscars 2023: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio offers a new vision for animated films that explore our humanity. The Conversation.
McDonald, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-5963 (2022) Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio review: this tale of a lost child is the filmmaker’s destiny. The Conversation.
McDonald, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-5963 (2009) “Funny Books” – Comics and Reader Response Theory. In: Possibilities and Perspectives: A Conference on Comics.
McDonald, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-5963 (2017) The Past is Never Dead: Monsters as Nostalgia Vehicles. In: Fear 2000 Conference Sheffield Hallam University, 7 July 2017, Sheffield.
McDonald, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-5963 (2019) Lovecraftian Myth and Paratextual Ripples in Popular Culture. Henry Jenkins.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Desperately seeking Kylie!: Critical reflections of William Baker's White Diamond	626
2	Guillermo del Toro : film as alchemic art	452
3	“A Constant Transit of Finding”: Fantasy as Realisation in Pan’s Labyrinth	263
4	"I can see my house from here". Charting a theoretical response to Google Street View	129
5	‘Something Like a Circus or a Sewer’ The thrill and threat of New York City in American culture	115	66
6	Oscars 2023: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio offers a new vision for animated films that explore our humanity	102	71
7	"You don't even look like a real female. You look...better." Gender, Invasion and Fantasy in the Luna Brother's Girls	93
8	Days of past futures: Kazuo Ishiguro's never let me go as "speculative memoir"	82	2
9	Interview with Guillermo del Toro	78
10	“Funny Books” – Comics and Reader Response Theory	64	47