Dr Matthew Melia
Senior Lecturer
Contact
- Email: m.melia@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Arts, Culture and Communication
- Department: Department of Journalism, Publishing and Media
About
I completed my undergraduate studies in 2001 at the University of Aberdeen (Joint MA Hons English-Lit / History of Art) and I was awarded my PhD from Kingston ('Architecture and Cruelty in the Writings of Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet') in 2007.
I teach on and am module leader for undergraduate and postgraduate modules focusing on TV Drama, Cult Film, Post 1960's British Cinema and Digital Cinema .
My research currently investigates issues of space and architecture and the work of Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick.
I am at the start of a research project on A Clockwork Orange as well as publishing chapters and articles on Russell and Kubrick. In 2017 I organised the international conference Ken Russell: Perspectives, Reception and Legacy at Kingston. I am currently organising a major conference on A Clockwork Orange to take place at University of the Arts: London College of Communication .
Areas of specialism
- Stanley Kubrick / Ken Russell
- Space and Architecture
- Cult film and Television
- Post-War Avant Garde / the Absurd: Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Antonin Artaud
- Post-Modernism
- Post war British Cinema and Television / British Horror Cinema
- The Cult / Exploitation Western and Landscape
Qualifications
- Joint MA (Hons) English Literature - History of Art (2.1) - University of Aberdeen (2001)
- PhD (Architecture and Cruelty in the Writings of Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet) - Kingston University (2007)
- PgCert (higher education teaching certificate) - Kingston University - 2010.
Research
I am currently involved with writing projects around (amongst other things) Ken Russell's unmade films (; Kubrick and Trans-Atlanticism; Jodorowsky's El Topo and The Landscape of the Western; I am co-editing a forthcoming a collection on Jaws (and contributing a chapter on Jaws as Western). I am in negotiations with Edinburgh University press to publish a book entitled Ken Russell: Perspectives, Reception and Legacy for their ReFocus: International Directors series.
I spend a considerable amount of time in the Stanley Kubrick Archives where I am formulating a book project on the cultural legacy of A Clockwork Orange (in time for the films 50th anniversary in 2021) ; the BFI archives and the BBC archives.
I am currently organizing a conference on A Clockwork Orange (Novel and Film) in partnership with the Kubrick Archives / LCC, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation and Kingston University.
Publications
Number of items: 8.
Article
Melia, Matthew (2017) Altered states, altered spaces : architecture, space and landscape in the film and television of Stanley Kubrick and Ken Russell. Cinergie : Il Cinema e le Altre Arti, 12, pp. 139-152. ISSN (print) 2280-9481
Melia, Matthew (2017) 'The post Kubrickian' : Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Screening the Past, 42, ISSN (online) 1328-9756
Melia, Matthew (2017) Reading the scream in Peter Strickland's 'Berberian Sound Studio'. Frames Cinema Journal, 11, ISSN (online) 2053-8812
Melia, Matthew (2017) Stanley Kubrick at the interface of film and television. Essais : Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Humanites(4), pp. 195-213. ISSN (print) 2417-4211
Melia, Matt (2016) Just how heroic is Star Trek's "I don't like to lose" James T. Kirk? Popmatters.com,
Book Section
Melia, Matthew (2014) The scream in visual culture: the scream as fearful response. In: Smith, Shilinka and Hill, Shona, (eds.) Transforming fear, horror and terror; multidisciplinary reflections. Oxford, U.K. : Inter-disciplinary Press. ISBN 9781848881969
Conference or Workshop Item
Melia, Matthew (2009) "Oh what's the bloody point?": a deconstruction of Kenneth William's life, screen and written performances and their reflection in the biopic Fantabulosa (BBC 2006). In: Performing lives; 06 - 08 Jul 2009, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Thesis
Melia, Matthew (2007) Architecture and cruelty in the writings of Antonin Artaud, Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett. (PhD thesis), Kingston University, uk.bl.ethos.555055.