School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

I joined the university in 2003 and am a Reader in British Film Culture. Primarily a cultural historian with an interest in cinema, my research focuses on film history, post-war British cinema, audience studies and fan cultures, cultural theory and popular culture, and film and television policy. I was Co-investigator on the AHRC-funded British Cinema of the 1970s project (2006-2009) and am Principal Investigator on a new project funded by the AHRC on Channel 4 Television and British Film Culture.

Within SCAFM I have coordinated and/or contributed to undergraduate units at all levels and currently teach on the MA in Film and Television in the areas of Research Methods, Audiences and Fandom, and Film and Television Policy.

Current Research^{[Back to top]}

I am currently working on the AHRC project on Channel 4 Television and British Film Culture.

Publications^{[Back to top]}

Publications since 2008 [IR]

Books^{[Back to top]}

Harper, S. & Smith, J. (Forthcoming). British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Articles^{[Back to top]}

Smith, J. (2005b). Cinema for sale: the impact of the multiplex on cinema going in Britain, 1985-2000. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 2 (2), 242-255.

Smith, J. (2005a). Withnail’s coat: Andrea Galer’s cult costumes. Fashion Theory, 9(3), 305-322. 

Book Chapters^{[Back to top]}

Smith, J. (2007). The Wicker Man digest: a web ethnography of a cult fan community. In J. Chapman, H. M. Glancy & S. Harper (Eds.),The new film history (pp. 229-244). Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Smith, J. (2005). Things that go clunk in the cult film text: nodes and interstices in The Wicker Man. In J. Murray, L. Stevenson, S. Harper & B. Franks (Eds.), Constructing ‘The Wicker Man’: film and cultural studies perspectives (pp. 123-138). Dumfries: University of Glasgow Crichton Publications.