Mark Jancovich

Mark JankovichMark Jancovich is Professor of Film and Television Studies at University of East Anglia. His interests include film, media and cultural theory; genre (particularly horror, pornography and the historical epic); audience and reception studies; and contemporary popular television. He is currently working on a history of American horror in the 1940s. Publications include: The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption (with Lucy Faire and Sarah Stubbings) (BFI, 2003); edited with Antonio Lazaro, Julian Stringer, and Andrew Willis, Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste (MUP, 2003); edited with James Lyons, Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans (BFI, 2003); edited, Horror: The Film Reader, (Routledge, 2001); edited with Joanne Hollows and Peter Hutchings, The Film Studies Reader (Arnold, 2000); Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s (Manchester University Press, 1996); edited with Joanne Hollows, Approaches to Popular Film (Manchester University Press, 1995); The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 1993); Horror (Batsford, 1992).

m.jancovich@uea.ac.uk