Roberta Pearson
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Professor of Film Studies School of American & Canadian Studies, Faculty of Arts Role(s): Professor |
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| T: 0115 9514250 F: 0115 9514270 roberta.pearson@nottingham.ac.uk |
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| I hold a BA from Duke University (in political science), an MPhil from Yale University (in political science) and a PhD from New York University (in cinema studies). I have previously taught at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Pennsylvania and Cardiff University. | |||
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My research and publications encompass a wide variety of topics and interests. 1) American television drama: I am interested in the multiple determinants of textual meaning from the production context to textual characteristics (narrative/genre) to audience reception and fandom. At the moment, I am fascinated by the emergence of multi-platform, transmedia storytelling and its historical antecedents. I have co-edited an anthology on cult television, edited an anthology on Lost and am currently completing a co-authored manscript that focuses on Star Trek as a television show. 2) Shakespeare and media: I am primarily concerned with Shakespeare as cultural icon, rather than adaptations of individual texts, although have written about film and television adaptation as well. 4) acting and actors: I have a long standing interest in film acting that goes back to my PhD dissertation, which was published as Eloquent Gestures. I am also interested in the craft of the actor and have recently interviewed Patrick Stewart about his interpretation of Mark Antony in an interview which appeared in the journal Shakespeare. 5) early cinema/film history: I have written quite a bit about early American cinema. 6) film/television and history: how do moving image media represent the past? How do representations of particular historical events vary over time or across a range of media at the same time. My own work in this area has focused on the ill-fated American general, George Armstrong Custer. 7) culturally iconic figures: a theme that runs through much of my research in an interest in the cultural significance of particular historical or fictional figures such as Shakespeare, Custer, Batman or Sherlock Holmes. I am currently fascinated with Frank Sinatra as a cross-media popular icon and will soon start working on a manuscript entitled Broadcast Sinatra: From Radio to Youtube. |
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