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Will Brooker

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Will Brooker

Director of Research for Film and Television, Kingston University

Will Brooker is Director of Research for Film and Television at Kingston University. He is author/editor of eight books, with a new monograph, Hunting the Dark Knight, forthcoming in 2012. He is a regular film reviewer for Times Higher Education and the editor of Cinema Journal, 2013-2018.

2 pieces

Newest first, since January 2012

  1. · Comment

    A Different Kind of Hunger

    While studying Film and English at the University of East Anglia in the late 1980s, I witnessed a pub debate about the meaning of James Cameron’s movie Aliens (1986). ‘It’s about the family,’ one of my housemates declare

  2. · Comment

    Studying popular culture

    In the first week of January 2012, Jane Clare Jones – a doctoral student in Philosophy – published an article about the Doctor Who Christmas Special. It appeared on ‘Comment is Free’ section of the online Guardian newspa