Ms Sue Porter

Job: Senior Lecturer in Film and Media

School/department: Leicester Media School

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 2577755

E: sporter@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

History of the Leicester Film Society, British cinema history, British silent film festival and silent cinema, gender and equality in the film industry, use of archive film in exhibition, film education and public engagement.

Research group affiliations

Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI)

Research interests/expertise

  • Film education and engagement, cultural impacts of film archives
  • Film societies - the history of the Leicester Film Society
  • British silent film
  • Gender and equality in the film industry

Areas of teaching

  • Film history and theory
  • Hollywood and the film studios
  • Disney
  • Cult Cinema
  • Film Festivals
  • Media
  • Gender and Identity
  • Film Industry Now! British cinema

Qualifications

BA Hons Communication Studies

Courses taught

  • Film1000 Introduction to Film Studies
  • Disney
  • Cult Cinema
  • The Business of the film studios
  • The Film Industry now
  • Media
  • Gender & Identity

Projects

The history of the Leicester Film society - cataloguing and digitising the archive.

Current research students

Abigail Remmer PhD, 2nd supervisor

ORCID number

0000-0001-8558-6108