I am Senior Lecturer in Media and Erasmus Lead for the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University in the UK. I teach courses onto the BA Mass Communications, BA Film and Television Studies and the Social Sciences Foundation Year. Prior to working at Northumbria I was Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University and an Academic Tutor in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland.
My main research interests are in film/media history and popular culture. I am working on my second monograph, Britain and the Video Boom: Tracking Popular Culture in the 1970s and 80s. My first book, Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society, was published in October 2015 with Edinburgh University Press, and I have co-edited a number of books including Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2016). I am founding series co-editor (with Austin Fisher) of Bloomsbury's Global Exploitation Cinemas book series.
My academic writing has appeared in various journals such as the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Post Script and the Journal of British Cinema and Television, in collections such as The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History Italian Horror Cinema (ed. Baschiera and Hunter, 2016) and Merchants of Menace (ed. Nowell, 2014), and in web journals such as InMediaRes.
I have provided expert commentary on horror cinema for the BBC, The Independent and The NME, and have been a principal organiser of four international academic conferences (Bloodlines: British Horror Past and Present (2010, De Montfort University); Re-thinking Cinema and Television History (2012, De Montfort University); The Cultural Mythology of the Snuff Movie (Bournemouth University, 2012); Global Exploitation Cinemas (University of Lincoln, 2015)).
I have delivered keynotes/seminar papers/guest lectures at: TU Dortmund, University of Warwick, University of Kent, Anglia Ruskin University, Birmingham City University and Falmouth University.
I am the reviews editor of the Journal of Popular Television. If you would like your book reviewed, please contact me at johnny.walker@northumbria.ac.uk.
My main research interests are in film/media history and popular culture. I am working on my second monograph, Britain and the Video Boom: Tracking Popular Culture in the 1970s and 80s. My first book, Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society, was published in October 2015 with Edinburgh University Press, and I have co-edited a number of books including Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2016). I am founding series co-editor (with Austin Fisher) of Bloomsbury's Global Exploitation Cinemas book series.
My academic writing has appeared in various journals such as the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Post Script and the Journal of British Cinema and Television, in collections such as The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History Italian Horror Cinema (ed. Baschiera and Hunter, 2016) and Merchants of Menace (ed. Nowell, 2014), and in web journals such as InMediaRes.
I have provided expert commentary on horror cinema for the BBC, The Independent and The NME, and have been a principal organiser of four international academic conferences (Bloodlines: British Horror Past and Present (2010, De Montfort University); Re-thinking Cinema and Television History (2012, De Montfort University); The Cultural Mythology of the Snuff Movie (Bournemouth University, 2012); Global Exploitation Cinemas (University of Lincoln, 2015)).
I have delivered keynotes/seminar papers/guest lectures at: TU Dortmund, University of Warwick, University of Kent, Anglia Ruskin University, Birmingham City University and Falmouth University.
I am the reviews editor of the Journal of Popular Television. If you would like your book reviewed, please contact me at johnny.walker@northumbria.ac.uk.
