BA (University of California, Irvine), PhD (University of California, Davis)

Course Leader and Senior Lecturer, Film Studies


Room: Hel 269

Email: tina.kendall@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2924
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2924


Dr Tina Kendall's research activity

Dr Tina Kendall is Course Leader for Film Studies. She teaches across a range of modules in Film Studies, and leads several modules, including: 'Film, Modernity and Postmodernity', 'Theorizing Spectatorship', and 'Introduction to Film Studies'.

Her current research interests include contemporary European and American cinema, and film-philosophy. Her work explores the materiality, ethics, and affects of extreme cinema, with a view to theorizing marginal, in-between, or unpleasurable aspects of cinematic spectatorship. She is co-editor of The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), co-author of 'The New Extremisms: Re-Thinking Extreme Cinema' (Cinephile 8.2), and editor of Film-Philosophy's special issue on disgust and spectatorship (15.2).

Tina's recent work includes essays and book chapters on Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher, the cinema of Bruno Dumont, and Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers. Her most recent project, 'An Aesthetics of Boredom in Contemporary Cinema' addresses boredom as a key affect of the contemporary 'attention economy'.

Tina is interested in supervising research in the following areas:

• The 'new extremism' in contemporary cinema
• 'Attention economy' and contemporary cinema
• Theories of affect, visceral spectatorship, and unpleasure
• 'New materialist' approaches to film

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