Mr. Lorcan Mcgrane

Research

Research Specialisms

Superhero/comic book movies. Contemporary science fiction and horror cinema. Television comedy. Gender theory: fetishism, transgenderism, bisexuality.

Previous Projects

MA thesis, DIT Aungier Street: "New Flesh for Film Studies: David Cronenberg and the Horror of the Corporeal". BA thesis, University of Ulster at Coleraine: "Fascism, Fetishism and Fandom: Political and Psychoanalytical aspects of Judge Dredd".

Current research

In my PhD thesis, "Superheroic Bodies: The Corporealities of Contemporary Film Superheroes", I examine how medical and technological anxieties are played out on the ambiguous gendered bodies of current film superheroes. The thesis explores themes of gender, technology, sexuality, posthumanism and cyborg theory in such films as Superman: The Movie, Batman, Blade, X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk and Daredevil.

Publications

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Other

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Email and website

Email: lorcan.grane@uea.ac.uk

Website

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Primary institution

Position

PhD candidate/associate tutor

Department

English and American Studies

Faculty

Film and Television Studies

Institution

University of East Anglia.

Address

• 58 Dover Street
• Norwich
• Norfolk
• NR2 3LQ
• Tel: 01603 619132