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Katarina O'Dette

Teaching Associate in Film & Screen Studies, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

Katarina O'Dette (she/her) is Teaching Associate in Film & Screen Studies at the University of Nottingham. She serves as production editor for Forum for Modern Language Studies and production assistant for Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. Her research can be found in Extrapolation, Fantastika Journal, Slayage, and A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Expertise Summary

  • Media Industry Studies
  • Genre Studies
  • Fantasy Television
  • Online TV
  • Creative Labour
  • Promotional Industries
  • Digital Humanities

Teaching Summary

In addition to supervising undergraduate and postgraduate taught dissertations, my current teaching includes:

  • CULT1026/1027: Producing Film and Television
  • CULT3018: Screen Encounters: Audiences and Engagement (convenor)
  • CULT4031: Development and Production
  • CULT4033: Audiences and Consumption

Research Summary

My research examines fantasy television as a contested genre, analysing the conflicting discourses generated about fantasy's definition and generic status by different stakeholders according to their… read more

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Current Research

My research examines fantasy television as a contested genre, analysing the conflicting discourses generated about fantasy's definition and generic status by different stakeholders according to their professional investments in genre. The project focuses on channels, creators, and Over-the-Top streaming services as genre stakeholders in the United States post-2000, and explores how the contestation created by stakeholder disagreements shapes our understanding of genre.

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