Inaugural Lecture - Professor Steve Rawle

Please come and join us for this fascinating Inaugural Lecture.

Steve tends to focus on works with low cultural esteem. Most recently he’s spent a lot of time researching and writing about giant monsters. Behind this lies a fascination with the maligned, the marginal and things beloved by only a fraction of the public. This is a politics, a global vision and a commitment to think about how lines of connection are drawn by the least likely candidates and the ways these speak to our experiences of the world.

A lot of his publications have the word ‘transnational’ in the title. They evidence both a progressive vision of an interconnected world but also the spectres of long-standing legacies of conflict and colonialism. The least valued artworks can often be the most revealing.

Throughout this lecture, Steve will reflect on a contradictory career. While his research often looks at culturally denigrated (and sometimes downright bad) cinema, he tries to teach students how to make the best films possible. This is a passionate defence of film and media studies, that most culturally reviled ‘Mickey Mouse subject’. Imagine working at the wrong end of quality in the ‘wrong’ end of academia.

There will be a drinks reception after this event.