Dr Kristian Moen – Lecturer in Screen Studies
Kristian Moen is a Lecturer in Screen Studies. He received his PhD in Film Studies from the University of East Anglia in 2006.
Research Interests
My research interests circulate broadly around cinema, fantasy and modernity. I am currently completing a monograph on the relationships between early French cinema, American cinema from the 1910s and 1920s, and fairy tales. This reflects my core research on silent cinema and on themes (and spectacles) of transformation. My interests also extend to considerations of intermediality, consumer culture and spectacle. In particular, the relationships between spectacular theatre and cinema are an emphasis of my current work. I am also interested in contemporary uses of film fantasy – particularly as they relate to issues of new media and pre-cinematic technologies.
Recent Publications and Research Papers
“Never Has One Seen Reality Enveloped in Such a Phantasmagoria: Watching Spectacular Transformation, 1860-1889”, forthcoming in Comparative Critical Studies.
“‘The Well-Organized Splendor of a Growing Culture’: Fairy Tales Tropes and Consumer Fantasies in The Thief of Bagdad (1924)”, forthcoming in Film Studies: An International Journal.
“‘This Image Traced in the Camera Obscura of the Mind’: Transforming Visions in Théophile Gautier’s Venices.” Conference paper for “Ruskin, Venice and 19th Century Cultural Travel”, Ruskin Centre, Lancaster & University of Ca' Foscari & INCS, Venice, September 2008.
“‘Everything Changes’: Mutable Perspectives in Sleepy Hollow and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” Conference paper for “New and Old Frames”, NECS (the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference, Budapest, June 2008.
Review of Amelie Hastie, Cupboard of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History in Screen 49:1 (Spring 2008), 99-102.
“A Continuance of Marvellous Surprises; or, Spectacle and Transformation in Early Cinema’s Féerie.” Film and Television Studies Research Seminar, University of East Anglia, Norwich, October 2006.