Dr Michele Aaron

Research

Research Specialisms

Death and Film; Spectatorship; Queer Film and Television; Jewishness and Gender; Post 9.11 Cinema

Previous Projects

No information available.

Current research

I am currently completing a monograph: Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I

Publications

Spectatorship: The Power of Looking On (London: Wallflower, 2007); Ed. New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004); Ed. The Body’s Perilous Pleasures (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999). Journal Articles: “(Fill-in-the) Blank Fiction: Dennis Cooper's Cinematics and the Complicitous Reader” Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 27, no. 2 (Fall 2004) “Pass/Fail: Screen Debate on Boys Don’t Cry” Screen Vol.42, no. 1 (March 2001) “The Queer Jew: From Yidl to Yentl and Back Again” Jewish History and Culture Vol. 3, no. 1 (Summer 2000) “The Historical, the Hysterical and the Homoeopathic” Paragraph Vol.19, no.2 (Summer 1996) Book Chapters: “Pass/Fail: Screen Debate on Boys Don’t Cry” in Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street, eds., The Queer Screen: A Screen Reader on Queer Cinema (London: Routledge, 2007) Reprint. ‘New Queer Cinema’ in Linda Ruth Williams and Mike Hammond American Cinema Since 1960 (Open University Press, 2006) ‘New Queer Cable: The L Word, the Small Screen and the Bigger Picture’ in Janet McCabe and Kim Akass, eds., The L Word (London: I B Taurus, 2006) ‘Looking On: The Spectacle of Death and the Complicitous Reader’ in Geoff King, ed. Spectacle of the Real (Exeter: Intellect Press, 2004) ‘The Queer Jew: Masculinity and Yiddish Cinema’ in Phil Powrie, Bruce Babbington and Ann Davies, eds., The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema (London: Wallflower Press, 2004) “New Queer Cinema” and “The New Queer Spectator” in Aaron, ed. New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004) “‘Til Death Us Do Part: Cinema’s Queer Couples Who Kill” in Aaron, ed. The Body’s Perilous Pleasures (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999) “The Blunt Cutting Edge: Taking the Knife to the Body of Evidence” in Deborah Cartmell, Ian Hunter and Heidi Kaye, eds. Sisterhoods: Feminists in Film and Fiction (PlutoPress, 1998) Forthcoming: ‘Towards Queer Television Theory: Bigger Pictures sans the Sweet Queerafter’ in Glyn Davis and Gary Needham, eds. Queer TV (London: Routledge, 2008) ‘The New Queer Jew: Jewishness, Masculinity and Contemporary Film’ in Harry Brod, Shawn Zevit. New Jewish Masculinities (Associated Jewish Presses, 2010) ‘Conflict and Death: Post 9.11 Cinema’ in Priscilla Roberts and Yan Xuan, United States after September 11th 2001.

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Email and website

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Primary institution

Position

Senior Lecturer

Department

American and Canadian Studies

Faculty

Arts and Law

Institution

University of Birmingham

Address

  • Edgbaston
  • Birmingham
  • West Midlands
  • B15 2TT
Last Updated: 13 Jun 2011