Contact Details

Professor Susan Hayward
	Director of the Centre for Research into Film Studies
	Department(s): Modern Languages (French and Film Studies)
	Room: BG34 (Queen's Building)
	Telephone: +44 (0)1392 264342 (Internal Ext. 4342)	This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Research Specialisms

My principal areas of research are French Film Studies and French Cultural Studies. My approach is interdisciplinary, cross-fertilising between film studies, critical theory, television studies, video practice and cultural studies. Thus in terms of French Film Studies, in particular, my approach is influenced by history and political culture, psychoanalysis, gender studies, structuralism, post-structuralism, post-modernism and post-colonial studies and informs my work on questions of National Cinema, textual and contextual analyses of films, film stars, film periods.

Publications

Publications in print

Authored Books (since 2004)

• 2004 Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign.,New York, Continuum Press, 400pp. ISBN0-8264-1393-5
• 2005 French National Cinema London and New York, Routledge, (second edition), 360pp, ISBN 0-415-05729-9
• 2005 Les Diaboliques, London & New York, IB Tauris, 118pp. ISBN 1-84511-217-2
• 2006 Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (3rd edition, revised and updated with entries of 60 pages), London & New York, Routledge, 586pp. ISBN 0-415-16117-7

Edited Books (since 2004)

• 2005 French Film : Texts and Contexts, London and New York, Routledge, S.Hayward and G. Vincendeau (eds), 348pp.
• 2007 Luc Besson Master of Spectacle , Susan Hayward & Phil Powrie (eds) Manchester, MUP, (introduction and 2 chapters see below) 197PP ISBN 0-7190-7028-7

Chapters in Books (since 2001)

• 2001 Setting The Agendas: Simone Signoret - The Pre-Feminist Star Body, In: A.Hughes & J.Williams (eds) Gender and French Cinema, Oxford & New York, Berg, 107-24
• 2001 Exclusion et altérité. Qu'en est-il du mandat de Channel 4? In: Télévision et exclusion, Jacques Walter (ed), Paris, L'Harmattan, 67-80
• 2001 Luc Besson's Cinquiéme élément (1997) and the Spectacular: The City-body and the Sci-Fi Movie, In: The Seeing Century: Film Vision and Identity, Wendy Everett (ed), Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodophi, 136-146
• 2002 Luc Besson: Filmmaker' in Y. Tasker, ed, Fifty Major Filmmakers. London and New York, Routledge, 51-9
• 2005 Recycled woman and the postmodern aesthetic: Luc Besson's Nikita (1990) in S.Hayward and G. Vincendeau (eds) French Film : Texts and Contexts, London and New York, Routledge, 297-309
• 2007 ' From Rags to Riches: Le Dernier combat and Le Cinquième élément' in: Susan Hayward & Phil Powrie (eds) Luc Master of Spectacle , Manchester, MUP, 91-108
• 2007 ' Jeanne d'Arc : high epic style and camp', in: Susan Hayward & Phil Powrie (eds) Luc Besson Master of Spectacle , Manchester, MUP, 161-175
• 2007 ' Le porno n'est plus ce qu'il était: le cinéma pornographique français 1974-79' in: Geneviève Sellier and Jean-Pierre Bertin Maghit (eds) La Fiction éclatée , Paris, LHarmattan, 287-302.
• 2007 ‘Simone Signoret: la star comme signe culturel', in Vincent Amiel, Jacqueline Nacache, Geneviève Sellier & Christian Viviani (eds) L'acteur de cinéma: approaches plurielles, Rennes, Presses Universitaire de Rennes, 193-204.
• Hayward, Susan (2009) 'Simone Signoret: Costume drama and the star text (a case study: Casque d'Or , Jacques Becker, 1952)', in Tutty Solya (ed) Stellar Encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema, London & New York, Routledge, 121-31. ISBN 9780 86196 679 0
• 'Performance, Camp, and Queering History in Luc Besson's "Joan of Arc"', In:Kelly, K. C. & Pugh, T. 'Queer Movie Medievalisms', Farnham, Ashgate, 129-46.

   

Articles in refereed journals (since 2001)

• 2001 Paris-London: Stadtkörper und Körper, auf die es ankommt, Die alte Stadt, 3/2001, 194-205.
• 2001 Claire Denis' Films and the Post-colonial Body', Studies in French Cinema, 1/3, 157-165.
• 2002 Claire Denis' Post-colonial Films and Desiring Bodies, L'Esprit Créateur , Vol. XLII, No. 3, 39-49.
• 2003 Reading Masculinities in Claire Denis' Chocolat , New Cinemas , Vol. 1, No. 2, 120-7.
• 2003 Literary Adaptations of the 1950s - Thérèse Raquin (1953) and Les Diaboliques (1955), Studies in French Cinema , 3/1, 5-14.
• 2004 Signoret's star persona and redressing the costume drama: Jacques Becker's Casque d'Or (1952), Studies in French Cinema , 4/1, 15-28.
• 2008 'Beyond Desire: Star Bodies and Sensation', Communication, Culture & Critique, Vol. 1 No. 3, 253-67. ISBN 1753-9129

Forthcoming Publications

Authored books

• 2008 Nikita, London and New York, IB Tauris (French Film Series), 120 pages.
• 2010 French Costume Drama of the 1950s , Bristol, Intellect Press, 200pp.

Chapters in books

• 2008 'Postcolonial Landscapes in Claire Denis' Cinema' in Graeme Harper & Jonathan Rayner (eds) Cinema and Landscape , Wayne State University Press., 20 pp.

Conferences

Teaching

Postgraduate Teaching in 2008-09

• MO32DL Stars

Postgraduate Supervision since 2001

PhD by Dissertation

• Will Higbee (AHRB funded)  Marginality in French Cinema, 1998-2001
• Sarah Leahey (AHRB funded)  Simone Signoret and Brigitte Bardot, 1999-2001
• Chi Yun Sin Contemporary British Cinema, 2000-2004
• Julian Warren (AHRB funded) Australian Cinema, 2001-2004    
• Kate Taylor British and French Women Directors, 2003-2006   
• Glenyce Meacher The Rural in Contemporary French Cinema, 2003-2007  
• Saër Maty Bâ  Malcolm X and Documentary  Film  Representation:  Textand Intertext
• Bridget Birchall (AHRB funded 2003-06) French Cinema of the 1970s, 2003-2007
• Jennie Cousins (AHRC funded) The Politics of Costume in French Costume Drama, 2005-
• Andrew Patch (AHRC funded)  The Cinema of Nic Roeg, 2006
• Davide Caputo (AHRC funded)  Polanski, 2007-
• Helen Beardsley  British Crime Films, 2007-
• Carol Noble  Scriptwriting Female Road Movies, 2007-
• Michael Holley  Scriptwriting Personal Histories, 2007-

Ongoing PhD by Dissertation PT/DL (Distance Learning) by Dissertation

• Deena Jamieson Political Thrillers, 2005-
• Gregg Redner  Music and Film, 2005-

PhD by Practice

• John Sealey (AHRC) Black Identities, 2003-2007
• Stefan Garel Queer bodies, 2004-2008
• Josh Gaunt Adaptations, 2006-
• Mark de Valk  Remaking Political Assassin Films, 2007-