Dr Johnny Walker is a Senior Lecturer in Media in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University. He is Programme Leader of the undergraduate Mass Communications programme and the department’s Study Abroad and Erasmus Co-ordinator. He teaches courses across BA Mass Communications, MSc Mass Communication Management and the Social Sciences Foundation Year. He began working at Northumbria since 2013, prior to being Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University in Leicester. He has published numerous journal articles, book chapters and short journalistic pieces, in addition to having written or edited a number of books in the fields of film history and popular culture.
Johnny's work has appeared in leading journals such as the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Post Script, and the Journal of British Cinema and Television, as well as in books such as Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema (2014), Italian Horror Cinema (2016), and the Routledge Companion to British Cinema History (2017). His books include, as author, Contemporary British Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), and, as co-editor Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2016). Currently he is working on a solo-authored book about the history of video rental culture in Britain, a co-authored book on the history of exploitation film (with Dr Neil Jackson), a co-edited anthology of key writings on horror cinema (with Dr Steve Jones), and a second edition of the late Professor Peter Hutchings’ first book, Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film. With Dr Austin Fisher, he is founding series co-editor of Bloomsbury's Global Exploitation Cinemas book series, and an editorial board member of the Horror Studies book series published by the University of Wales Press (founded by Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes).
Johnny is a recognised expert on the history of horror and exploitation film, has provided expert commentary on such topics for BBC Radio, The Independent, The NME, and Real Crime magazine, and is the author of the sleeve notes that accompany Arrow Video's Blu-Ray release of Nico Mastorakis’ video nasty: Island of Death (1976). He is regularly asked to deliver research seminars and guest lectures at universities through the country (including, for example, King's College London, University of Warwick and University of Kent), and has delivered keynote talks at conferences hosted at the Technical University of Dortmund (2016), Canterbury Christ Church University (2017) and De Montfort University (2018).
Johnny's work has appeared in leading journals such as the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Post Script, and the Journal of British Cinema and Television, as well as in books such as Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema (2014), Italian Horror Cinema (2016), and the Routledge Companion to British Cinema History (2017). His books include, as author, Contemporary British Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), and, as co-editor Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2016). Currently he is working on a solo-authored book about the history of video rental culture in Britain, a co-authored book on the history of exploitation film (with Dr Neil Jackson), a co-edited anthology of key writings on horror cinema (with Dr Steve Jones), and a second edition of the late Professor Peter Hutchings’ first book, Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film. With Dr Austin Fisher, he is founding series co-editor of Bloomsbury's Global Exploitation Cinemas book series, and an editorial board member of the Horror Studies book series published by the University of Wales Press (founded by Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes).
Johnny is a recognised expert on the history of horror and exploitation film, has provided expert commentary on such topics for BBC Radio, The Independent, The NME, and Real Crime magazine, and is the author of the sleeve notes that accompany Arrow Video's Blu-Ray release of Nico Mastorakis’ video nasty: Island of Death (1976). He is regularly asked to deliver research seminars and guest lectures at universities through the country (including, for example, King's College London, University of Warwick and University of Kent), and has delivered keynote talks at conferences hosted at the Technical University of Dortmund (2016), Canterbury Christ Church University (2017) and De Montfort University (2018).