Kirsty Fairclough
+44 (0)161 295 6060
k.fairclough@salford.ac.uk
Kirsty Fairclough is Lecturer in Media and Performance in the School of Media, Music and Performance. Kirsty gained her Masters in Screen Studies from the University of Manchester and subsequently taught Media and Film theory in both Further and Higher education in a number of institutions across the North West before joining Salford in 2005.
Kirsty's primary research interests include feminist readings of celebrity culture, gossip blogging, lifestyle/makeover and cosmetic surgery television, American independent cinema and contemporary Hollywood. The title of her PhD is Nothing Less Than Perfect: Postfeminism, Celebrity and the Makeover in Popular Culture.
Kirsty was co-organiser of the first international conference on lifestyle television, The Big Reveal: Style, Class and Industry, which was successfully held at the University in April 2007.
As a regular speaker at the Cornerhouse, Manchester, Kirsty delivers courses and talks on a range of film and media topics.
Kirsty lectures on a range of theory modules across the Media and Performance divisions including Classical Hollywood Cinema, Performance and Culture, Media Analysis, Contemporary American Cinema and Lifestyle Television.
Book forthcoming
Ben Halligan, Kirsty Fairclough and Rob Edgar, eds. 2013. Music Documentary. Routledge.
Article forthcoming
Nothing Less Than Perfect: Female Celebrity, Ageing and Hyper- Scrutiny in the Gossip Industry - Celebrity Studies special issue, 'Back in the spotlight: Ageing and Female Celebrity." Routledge, 2012
Articles
2010. Video Curator: Mainstreaming the Avant-Garde: Gender and spectacle at GAGAKOH, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/ (August).
2008. Fame is a Losing Game: Celebrity Gossip Blogging, Bitch Culture and Postfeminism, Genders, no. 48.
2005. I'm A Celebrity - Analyse Me: The Appeal of Celebrity Reality TV, Flow TV, 1: 11 - http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/
2004. Women's Work? Wife Swap and the Reality Problem, Feminist Media Studies, 4: 2.
Encyclopaedia entries
Erin Brockovich, Sage Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, 2010
Who Bombed Birmingham, Encyclopaedia of Documentary Film, Routledge 2004
People's Century, Encyclopaedia of Documentary Film, Routledge 2004
The British Film Institute, Encyclopaedia of Documentary Film, Routledge 2004
Conferences & Presentations
Female Celebrity, Ageing and Hyper- Scrutiny in the Gossip Industry. Age Spots and Spotlights: Celebrity, Ageing and Performance, Birkbeck University of London, December 2011://www.agespotsandspotlights.blogspot.com/
Gilda and the Femme Fatale, Cornerhouse November 2011
Five Easy Pieces and the Hollywood Renaissance, Cornerhouse February 2011
Exposures: New Talent in Moving Image Documentary Forum, Cornerhouse, November 2009
Film introduction: Fish Tank, Cornerhouse, September 2009
Film introduction: Rachel Getting Married, Cornerhouse, January 2009
Film introduction: Milk, Cornerhouse, January 2009
The Bitch is Back: Gossip Blogging, Postfeminism and Bitch Narratives, Keywords in Communication, Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association, Chicago, 21st-25th May 2009
Toxic? - Perez Hilton, Gossip Blogging and the Spectacle of Female "Train Wreck" Celebrity, Going Cheap? Female Celebrity in the Tabloid, Reality and Scandal Genres, School of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, June 2008
The Coen Brothers, Cornerhouse, January 2008
Film introduction: Unknown White Male, Cornerhouse, April 2006
Ang Lee, Cornerhouse, January 2006
The Films of Gus Van Sant, Cornerhouse, September 2005
Film introduction: Palindromes, Cornerhouse, May 2005
The Films of Jim Jarmusch, Cornerhouse, Nov 2004
Gender, Taste and Television, Visions II Broadcasting Histories Conference, University of Central Lancashire, July 2004
Women's Work? - Wife Swap and the Reality Problem, MeCCSA Women's Media Studies Network Gender/Reality TV Seminar, University of Manchester, June 2004
An Introduction to American Independent Cinema, Cornerhouse, July 2004
Changing Tastes: Lifestyle Television and the Politics of Transformation, Journeys Across Media, University of Reading, April 2004
I'm A Celebrity Analyse Me! - Celebrity Reality TV and the Cult of Confession, MeCCSA Annual Conference, University of Reading, December 2002
Courses
Women and Film. Cornerhouse, May-July 2009
The State Of Independents: Defining Contemporary American Independent Cinema, Cornerhouse. May 2008
Introduction to Studying Sitcom, National Media Museum, January 2008
Introduction to Documentary, Cornerhouse, February 2007
Introduction to Scriptwriting Summer School, University of Manchester, July 2005
Reality TV Summer School, University of Manchester, July 2004
Reviews & Journalism
2004. Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture, Scope: Online Journal of Film Studies.
2004. Shock and Awe: Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema, Popmatters: Magazine of Global Culture.
2003. Celebrity Unravelled: Image, Icon and Obsession, Scope: Online Journal of Film Studies.
2003. Pushing the Envelope: Filmmaking beyond the Hollywood Canon, Popmatters: Magazine of Global Culture.
2002. Reinventing Film Studies, Scope: Online Journal of Film Studies.
2001. Visions of Virtue in Popular Film, Scope: Online Journal of Film Studies.
2001. Post Modern After Images, Scope: Online Journal of Film Studies.
Media
Podcast - Capitalism: A Love Story. Cornerhouse. March 2010
Conference and Research Seminar Organisation
2009-present. CCM Screens and Mediations Seminar Series. Co-organiser.
2007. The Big Reveal: Style, Class and Industry - First International Lifestyle Television Conference. Co-organiser.
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