DrFrances Pheasant-Kelly
Reader in Film and Screen Studies
Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
- Reader in Film and Screen StudiesFaculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
- 07484-847133 (Mobile)
- 01902-323325 (Work)
- University of Wolverhampton, Department of Film and Media, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 1LY, United Kingdom
TEACHING INTERESTS
Fran has taught on the following MA Film and Screen modules:
7FI001 Screens of Terror Post 9/11
7FI003 Space, Place and Culture in American Cinema
7FI006 Screening Horror: Trauma, Fear and Fantasy
7FI007 Becoming an Academic
7FI008 MA Film and Screen Thesis
7FI016 Film Journalism
She currently supervises 14 doctoral students, and has supervised 10 to completion with examples including the following:
Early film and its relationship to musical theatre
Trauma and documentary inserts in post-9/11 cinema
Dementia and filmmaking practice
Musical soundtrack and identity in the films of Wes Anderson
The films of Andrea Arnold
Television stardom
Children and the films of Tim Burton
Space and identity in post-9/11 combat films
Early television and Gothic horror
Transhumanism, post-humanism, and anti-humanism in twenty-first century science fiction cinema
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONSEMIOTIC KINGSHIP DURAGS, BLACK MEN AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING30 Oct 2025
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONExploring Mental Health Representation in Film and Television1 Aug 2025 - 1 Aug 2028
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONOnline Prolificity and Online Content Creators1 Aug 2025 - 1 Aug 2027
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONExploring the Engagement of Black Cinema Audiences1 Apr 2025 - 1 Apr 2028
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Eightiesification of Culture1 Feb 2025 - 1 Feb 2029
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONHybrid Hard Bodies and Reel Masculinities: Hollywood Heroes after 9/1119 Dec 2024
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA Genealogy of Toxic Masculinity: Desire, Seduction and Transgression1 Dec 2024 - 1 Apr 2031
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONPortrayals of Remembrance: Representations of Individual Memory in Contemporary Cinema2 Oct 2024
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONOverlapping Oppressions Uncaged: A feminist exploration into the intersecting oppressions of women and non-human animals in contemporary UK society.1 May 2024 - 30 Apr 2027
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONFiring the Canon: Carnival, Entertainment and Shakespeare28 Aug 2023
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Cultural Influence of Japanese and American Animation on Saudi Students1 Mar 2023 - 1 Mar 2027
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONRecalling Trauma: The Legacy of Slavery and Colonialism in Contemporary Black Women’s Fiction20 Feb 2023
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONRepresentations of Individual Memory in Contemporary Cinema26 May 2022
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONNon-binary Protagonists in Musical Theatre, Film and Television1 Sep 2021 - 1 Sep 2024
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONDiagnosing Abjection in Middle Eastern Women's Writing15 Jul 2021
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONFine Art and Aesthetics in Post-9/11 Hollywood Science Fiction and Fantasy Films1 Mar 2021 - 1 Mar 2027
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Politics and Poetics of Animated Cartoons 1990-20201 Feb 2021 - 31 Jan 2024
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDeath and Gender in the Slasher Film1 Nov 2020 - 1 Dec 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe 'Netflixisation' of Contemporary Cinematic Culture1 Nov 2020 - 1 Sep 2027
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONRepresentations of the British ‘Roadman’ Stereotype on Screen1 Oct 2020 - 1 Sep 2027
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONFemininity and Sexual Difference in 90s Pop Culture1 Jun 2020 - 1 Jun 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAnimation and Transitional Narratives in Japanese Cinema1 Mar 2020 - 1 Mar 2026
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONInnovative Representations of Trauma: Trauma in Popular Culture11 Nov 2019
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONGender Identity and Body Dysmorphia in Children’s Films1 Oct 2019 - 1 Oct 2025
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONProducing the Translators of Tomorrow: Designing a Student-Centred and Competence-Based Translation Curriculum for Saudi Universities26 Sep 2019