Dr Simon Brown

Kingston School of Art
Department of Critical and Historical Studies
School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Penrhyn Road

Associate professor

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About

I am associate professor of Film and Television and joined Kingston University in 2004 after spending a decade at the BFI National Film and Television Archive, sourcing and restoring old films. From that work came my love of film history, and also my PhD which was on the early years of the British film industry.

Over the course of my career, I've written about and taught a range of film, TV and media-related subjects such as Film History and Technology, National Cinemas including Britain, China and Hong Kong, Cult Film and Television, Horror, Adaptation, Censorship, Documentary and the History of Non-Fiction Film, Archiving and the Media Industry as well as Contemporary American Film and Television. I currently teach on the BA Creative Writing (Film Pathway) and on the MA Film Studies. I am also the PGR Co-ordinator for the School of Creative and Cultural Industries.

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Adapting Stephen King: text, context and the case of 'Cell' (2016)

Brown, Simon, 2017, Pennywise Dreadful (1), 1 pp 42-56, Published

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Stephen King's Vampire Kingdom: Supernatural EVIL and Human evil in TV adaptations of Salem's Lot (1979, 2004)

Brown, Simon, 2017, Horror Studies (8), 2, Published

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Alternate version of the same reality: adapting Under the Dome as a SF TV series

Brown, Simon, 2017, Science Fiction Film and Television (10), 2 pp 267-283, Published

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From novelty to normal: 3DTV as special effect

Brown, Simon, 2013, Critical Studies in Television (8), 3 pp 33-46, Published

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From inventor to renter: the middleman, the production crisis and the formation of the British film industry

Brown, Simon, 2013, Early Popular Visual Culture (11), 2 pp 100-112, Published

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Memento mori: The slow death of The X-Files

Brown, Simon, 2013, Science Fiction Film and Television (6), 1 pp 7-22, Published

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Anywhere but Scotland? Transnationalism and new Scottish cinema

Brown, Simon, 2011, International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen (4), 1, Published

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Book Review of: The mass image: a social history of photomechanical reproduction in Victorian London by Gerry Beegan

Brown, Simon, 2009, Journal of British Cinema and Television (6), 1 pp 141-143, Published

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Colouring the nation: spectacle, reality and British natural colour in the silent and early sound era

Brown, Simon, 2009, Film History: An International Journal (21), 2 pp 139-149, Published

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Flicker alley: Cecil Court and the emergence of the British film industry

Brown, Simon, 2007, Film Studies (10) pp 21-33, Published

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In silico prediction of drug binding to CYP2D6: identification of a new metabolite of metoclopramide

Yu, Yinglei, Paine, Mark, J.I., Mar├®chal, Jean-Didier, Kemp, Carol, A., Ward, Clive, J., Brown, Simon, Sutcliffe, Michael, J., Roberts, Gordon, C.K., Rankin, Elaine, M. and Wolf, C. Roland, 2006, Drug Metabolism and Disposition (34), 8 pp 1386-1392, Published

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Coming soon to a hall near you: some notes on 16mm road-show distribution in the 1930s

Brown, Simon, 2005, Journal of British Cinema and Television (2), 2 pp 299-309, Published

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Early cinema in Britain and the smoking concert film

Brown, Simon, 2005, Early Popular Visual Culture (3), 2 pp 165-178, Published

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The greatest documentary ever made?: James Cameron's Titanic

Brown, S., 2003, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: a journal of criticism and theory (5), 1 pp 78-88, Published

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Stephen King and vampires

Brown, Simon (2023). In: Bacon, Simon, (eds.), London, U.K.: [Published]

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Gothic and silent cinema

Abbott, Stacey and Brown, Simon (2021). In: Spooner, Catherine, Townshend, Dale, (eds.), Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press pp 22-42 [Published]

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Remaking Stephen King: texts and contexts

Brown, Simon (2019). In: Piatti-Farnell, Lorna, (eds.), Lanham, Maryland, U.S.: [Accepted/In press]

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Inspiration as adaptation: TV horror, seriality and the adapted text

Brown, Simon and Abbott, Stacey (2019). In: Kaklamanidoy, Betty, (eds.), Detroit, U.S.: [Accepted/In press]

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Stephen King's Full Dark No Stars (2010) - Stephen King

Brown, Simon (2019). In: Bacon, Simon, (eds.), Oxford: pp 235-240 [Published]

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Censorship under siege: the BBFC in the silent era

Brown, Simon (2012). In: Lamberti, Edward, (eds.), London, U.K.: pp 3-14 [Published]

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The Brighton School and the quest for natural color - redux

Brown, Simon (2012). In: Street, Sarah, Watkins, Liz, Brown, Simon, (eds.), Oxford, U.K.: Routledge pp 13-22 [Published]

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Renegades and Wayward Sons: Supernatural and the '70s

Brown, Simon (2011). In: Abbott, Stacey, Lavery, David, (eds.), Toronto, Canada: pp 60-74 [Published]

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Cult channels: Showtime, FX and Cult TV

Brown, Simon (2010). In: Abbott, Stacey, (eds.), London, U.K.: I.B. Tauris pp 155-162 [Published]

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Case Study: the X-Files

Brown, Simon (2010). In: Abbott, Stacey, (eds.), London, U.K.: I.B. Tauris pp 163-166 [Published]

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The art of sp(l)atter: body horror in Dexter

Brown, Simon and Abbott, Stacey (2010). In: Howard, Douglas L., (eds.), London, U.K.: I.B. Tauris pp 205-220 [Published]

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Can't live with 'em, can shoot 'em: Alias and the (thermo) nuclear family

Brown, Simon and Abbott, Stacey (2007). In: Abbott, Stacey, Brown, Simon, (eds.), London, U.K.: I. B. Tauris pp 87-100 [Published]

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Introduction: 'serious spy stuff': the cult pleasures of Alias

Brown, Simon and Abbott, Stacey (2007). In: Abbott, Stacey, Brown, Simon, (eds.), London, U.K.: I. B. Tauris pp 1-8 [Published]

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Narrative and pictorialism in post-pioneer Hepworth films

Brown, Simon (2007). In: Porter, Laraine, Dixon, Bryony, (eds.), Exeter, U.K.: pp 29-36 [Published]

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