Dr Johnny Walker is Senior Lecturer in Media, Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Mass Communication, and Study Abroad Lead for the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University. He teaches courses onto the BA Mass Communication, the Social Sciences Foundation Year and the MSc Mass Communication Management. Prior to working at Northumbria he was Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University and an Academic Tutor in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland.
Johnny's main research interests are in film/media history and popular culture. He is currently working on his second monograph, Britain and the Video Boom: Tracking Popular Culture in the 1970s and 80s. His first book, Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society, was published in October 2015 with Edinburgh University Press, and he has since 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). He is founding series co-editor (with Austin Fisher) of Bloomsbury's Global Exploitation Cinemas book series.
Johnny's 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, and in collections such as the Routledge Companion to British Cinema History, Italian Horror Cinema (eds Baschiera and Hunter, 2016) and Merchants of Menace (ed. Nowell, 2014).
Johnny has provided expert commentary on horror cinema for the BBC, The Independent, the I and the NME, and has been a principal organiser of six international academic conferences since 2010: Bloodlines: British Horror Past and Present (De Montfort University, 2010); Re-thinking Cinema and Television History (De Montfort University, 2012); The Cultural Mythology of the Snuff Movie (Bournemouth University, 2012); Global Exploitation Cinemas (University of Lincoln, 2015); Researching Horror, Cult and Exploitation Cinema: A Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers (Northumbria University, 2017); and Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media 2 (Northumbria University, 2018).
Johnny has delivered keynote lectures at the Technical University of Dortmund (2016) and Canterbury Christ Church University (2017), in addition to research seminar papers at King's College London (2017), University of Kent (2015), Newcastle University (2010), Birmingham City University (2016), Falmouth University (2015), and guest lectures at the University of Sunderland (2017), De Montfort University (2014) and Anglia Ruskin University (2016).
Johnny is the reviews editor of the Journal of Popular Television. If you would like your book reviewed, please email johnny.walker@northumbria.ac.uk.
Johnny's main research interests are in film/media history and popular culture. He is currently working on his second monograph, Britain and the Video Boom: Tracking Popular Culture in the 1970s and 80s. His first book, Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society, was published in October 2015 with Edinburgh University Press, and he has since 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). He is founding series co-editor (with Austin Fisher) of Bloomsbury's Global Exploitation Cinemas book series.
Johnny's 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, and in collections such as the Routledge Companion to British Cinema History, Italian Horror Cinema (eds Baschiera and Hunter, 2016) and Merchants of Menace (ed. Nowell, 2014).
Johnny has provided expert commentary on horror cinema for the BBC, The Independent, the I and the NME, and has been a principal organiser of six international academic conferences since 2010: Bloodlines: British Horror Past and Present (De Montfort University, 2010); Re-thinking Cinema and Television History (De Montfort University, 2012); The Cultural Mythology of the Snuff Movie (Bournemouth University, 2012); Global Exploitation Cinemas (University of Lincoln, 2015); Researching Horror, Cult and Exploitation Cinema: A Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers (Northumbria University, 2017); and Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media 2 (Northumbria University, 2018).
Johnny has delivered keynote lectures at the Technical University of Dortmund (2016) and Canterbury Christ Church University (2017), in addition to research seminar papers at King's College London (2017), University of Kent (2015), Newcastle University (2010), Birmingham City University (2016), Falmouth University (2015), and guest lectures at the University of Sunderland (2017), De Montfort University (2014) and Anglia Ruskin University (2016).
Johnny is the reviews editor of the Journal of Popular Television. If you would like your book reviewed, please email johnny.walker@northumbria.ac.uk.
