Dr Peter Hutchings
Position
Professor of Film Studies
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Film and Literature (Warwick); PhD (East Anglia)
Research Interests
British film and television history; the horror film; science fiction; the thriller
Relationship between Research and Teaching
Research-led modules include undergraduate 3rd year options on The
Horror Film and Fantasy Television and a postgraduate module on Italian
film genres.
I am currently supervising five PhDs.
• The aesthetics of cinematic spectacle
• The Film workshop Movement in the North East of England
• The rural horror film
• Émigré cinema
• Gender in the star Wars intertext
Teaching Responsibilities
I teach on the following undergraduate programmes: Film and
Television Studies; English and Film; Sociology and Film. I also
teach on the MA in Film Studies
Divisional Responsibilities
I am currently programme leader for MA Film Studies
Publications
Books
P. Hutchings (2008), The Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema, Lanham,
MD.: Scarecrow Press.
P. Hutchings (2004), The Horror Film, London: Pearson.
P. Hutchings (2003), Dracula: British Film Guide, London: I. B. Tauris.
P. Hutchings (2002), Terence Fisher, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
J. Hollows, P. Hutchings & M. Jancovich (eds.) (2000)., The Film Studies Reader, London: Edward Arnold.
P. Hutchings (1993), Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Recent articles and chapters
P. Hutchings (2008), ‘American Vampires in Britain: Richard
Matheson’s I Am Legend and Hammer’s The Night Creatures’ in D. North (ed.),
Sights Unseen: Unfinished British Films, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars
Press.
P. Hutchings (2008) ‘Monster Legacies: Memory, Technology and Horror
History’ in L. Geraghty & M. Jancovich (eds.)., The Shifting
Definitions of Genre, Jefferson, N.C: McFarland Press.
P. Hutchings (2008) ‘Theatres of Blood: Shakespeare and Horror Cinema’ in
D. Townsend & J. Drakakis (eds)., Gothic Shakespeare, London:
Routledge.
P. Hutchings (2007) Three short essays – on Chi l’ha vista morire, Dark Waters, Haute Tension – in S. Schneider (ed.), British Film Institute Screen Guide: European Horror, London: British Film Institute.
P. Hutchings (2007) ‘Traditions and Transformations: Cinematic Visions of
Tyneside’ for H. Fawcett (ed.), Looking at Newcastle, Newcastle:
Northumbria University Press.
P. Hutchings (2007), ‘Ralph Bates’, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror
Studies, November.
P. Hutchings (2007), ‘Grotesque bodies and the horror of comedy in The
League of Gentlemen’, Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, 4,
December..
P. Hutchings (2006) Twenty-five short essays in R. Murphy (ed.), Directors
in British and Irish Film Cinema: a reference guide, London: British
Film Institute: some of these also published online at the British Film
Institute website www.screenonline.org.uk.
P. Hutchings (2004) ‘“We’re the Martians now”: British SF Invasion Fantasies of the 1950s and 1960s’ in S. Redmond (ed.), Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader, London: Wallflower Press. (A reprint of a chapter originally in I. Hunter (ed.) (1999), British Science Fiction Cinema, London: Routledge).
P. Hutchings (2004) ‘Uncanny Landscapes in British Film and Television’,
Visual Culture in Britain, 5:2.
P. Hutchings (2003) ‘The Argento Effect’ in J. Stringer et al (eds).,
Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste,
Manchester: Manchester University Press.
P. Hutchings (2003) Fourteen short essays in B. McFarlane (ed.), The Encyclopedia of British Film, London: Methuen; some of these also published online at the British Film Institute website www.screenonline.org.uk.
P. Hutchings (2002) ‘The Problem of British Horror’ in M. Jancovich (ed)., The Horror Film Reader, London: Routledge: a chapter-length excerpt from the 1993 monograph Hammer and Beyond.
P. Hutchings (2002) ‘Beyond the New Wave: Realism in British Cinema, 1956-1964’ in R. Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, 2nd edition, London: British Film Institute.
P. Hutchings (2001) ‘The Amicus House of Horror’ in S. Chibnall & J. Petley (eds)., British Horror Cinema, London: Routledge.
P. Hutchings (2001) ‘The Histogram and the List: The Director in British Film Criticism’, The Journal of Popular British Cinema, 4.
P. Hutchings (2001) ‘Dangerous words: Rumle Hammerich’s Svart Lucia’, Kinoeye: New Perspectives on European Film - http://www.kinoeye.org/index_01_08.php
Future Projects
In 2009 the following articles and chapters will appear
P. Hutchings (2009), ‘I’m the girl he wants to kill’: The ‘women in peril’ thriller in 1970s British film and television’, Visual Culture in Britain.
P. Hutchings (2009), ‘Horror London’, The Journal of British Cinema and Television..
P. Hutchings (2009), ‘The Power to Create Catastrophe: The idea of apocalypse in 1970s British cinema’ in P. Newland (ed.), British Cinema in the 1970s, London: Intellect.
P. Hutchings (2009) ‘Music of the Night: Horror's Soundtracks’ in G. Harper (ed.)., Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media, London: Continuum Press.
P. Hutchings (2009) ‘Beyond the New Wave: Realism in British Cinema, 1956-1964’ in R. Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, 3rd edition: this is an expanded version of chapter that appeared in 2nd edition.
I am currently working on chapters and articles on the following:
• The vampire in film, television and literature
• Representations of rock music on 1970s British television
• The SF television series UFO
• The representation of Rome in the films of Dario Argento
Conference Presentations
Recent conference papers include
‘Brian Clemens and the “Women in peril” thriller in 1970s British Film and
Television’. British Visual Culture of the 1970s, Portsmouth University,
2008.
‘The British Apocalypse’. Don’t Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s, Exeter University, 2007.
‘Bloody Foreigners: European Exchanges in the New British Horror Film’. Continental Connections: British Film and Television in their European Contexts. De Montfort University, 2007.
‘Resident evil? The limits of European horror.’ Keynote presentation to European Nightmares: An International Conference on the European Horror film, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006.
‘Ghosts, vampires and the apocalypse: Horror Fiction and the First World War’. The First World War and Popular Culture Conference at Newcastle University, 2006.
‘Freddie Francis and Terence Fisher’. Cultural Connections, De Montfort University, 2005.
‘Le Kung Fu: The French Martial Arts Film’. European Cinema Research Forum, Northumbria University, 2004.
‘Universal’s Horror Films of the 1940s’. Exploiting Fear: International conference on the horror film, Hull University, 2002.
‘Dario Argento: Anatomy of a Cult Director’. Defining Cult Movies conference, Nottingham University, 2001.
Association with Professional Organisations
I am a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review
College.
I serve on the editorial board of the journal Visual Culture in Britain and on the editorial advisory board of Scope: an online journal of film studies. Association with any other academic institutions
Personal Statement/Career
I completed my PhD on British horror cinema in the late 1980s. Since
then I have published widely on British film and television and on
international horror cinema. I also research the science fiction
genre and the thriller and have a continuing interest in sensational
popular cultural forms.
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