Professor Joe Kember

Joe Kember is a Professor in Film and Media. His research interests include early and silent cinema, Victorian and Edwardian popular entertainments including the magic lantern, theories of film affect, transmedia, and issues concerning the representation of the human face. He teaches film, media, literature, and cultural theory, and has supervised postgraduate research concerning topics ranging from Victorian freak show to contemporary Scottish cinema. His new book concerning the exhibition of popular screen entertainments, 1800-1914, is in publication with Oxford University Press.

Research supervision:

I have supervised PhD students in the fields of cinema history and theory, transmedia, nineteenth-century shows and popular culture, and film practice. In addition to these areas, I am also interested in supervising PhD theses on any aspects of film and popular entertainment exhibition practices, histories of acting and performance, representation of cities and other spaces on film, and theories of film, including studies of cognition, emotion, and embodiment.

I also use Exeter's Bill Douglas Cinema Museum (http://www.billdouglas.org/) widely in my research and would be very interested in working further with doctoral students on the substantial mass of materials held by the Museum concerning film history and nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual and popular culture.