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ATJ Willis

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Name:

ATJ Willis

Email:

A.Willis@salford.ac.uk

Department:

School of Arts & Media

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Biography

Expertise:

Popular European cinema, Film distribution and exhibition, Spanish cinema, Hong Kong cinema, British television drama

Job title:

Professor of Film Studies

Qualifications:

BA (Hons) Film and Drama (Bulmershe College/Reading University) MA Cultural Studies (Thames Valley University) PhD Film Studies (Nottingham University)

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1.	Amando de Ossario’s “bind dead” quartet and the cultural politics of Spanish horror	1441
2.	Christianity, controversy, cinema	735
3.	More than simply cowboys, naked virgins, werewolves and vampires? The transatlantic cinema of Leon Klimovsky	723	4
4.	A popular Spanish auteur: Alex de la Iglesia as a polemical tool	651	1649
5.	Burgess and cinema	634
6.	Neo-Noir: The cultural significance (and insignificance) of a film style	531
7.	The cinema of Alex de la Iglesia	463
8.	Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope'	449	1405
9.	Este no es juego, es Accion Mutante: The provocations of Alex de la Iglesia	403
10.	Film stars: Hollywood and beyond	399

My Latest

Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643 and Hayward, R 2022, 'Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester' , in: The Formation of Film Audiences: Conference Proceedings , The Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield.
Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643 2021, 'Popular cinema in an era of decline : politics, self-reflexivity and cinematic nostalgia in recent genre films from Hong Kong' , La Furia Umana (41) .
Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643 and Elliott, F 2020, 'Rapidly shifting landscapes : two case studies in the UK distribution and exhibition of Chinese language films in the twenty-first century' , in: Renegotiating film genres in East Asian cinemas and beyond , East Asian Popular Culture (18) , Palgrave, UK, pp. 17-40.
Chan, F and Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643 2018, 'British Chinese cinema and the struggle for recognition, even on the margins' , in: Contesting British Chinese Culture , Palgrave, pp. 151-167.
Chan, F and Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643 2018, 'Manchester’s Chinese arts centre : a case study in strategic intervention' , in: Contesting British Chinese Culture , Palgrave, pp. 101-116.
Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643 2018, 'Before and after the awful Dr Orloff : rethinking an early career “respectable” Jess Franco' , in: The Films of Jess Franco , Wayne State University Press, Detroit, USA, pp. 41-63.
Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643 2018, 'From killer snakes to taxi hunters : Hong Kong horror in an exploitation context' , in: Hong Kong Horror Cinema , Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 52-63.
Chan, F and Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643 2017, 'Interventions on cultural margins : the case of the Chinese Film Forum UK and the presence of Taiwan cinema in the UK' , in: Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change , Routledge, pp. 80-91.
Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643 2017, 'An icon rises from the grave : the 21st century cult stardom of Paul Naschy' , in: Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television , Routledge (Taylor & Francis), New York.
Fairclough, K ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1773-5826 and Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643 2017, 'Steven Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film director' , in: A Companion to Steven Spielberg , Wiley, pp. 466-478.