Overview
Dr Elizabeth Miller (HEA Fellow) is a Lecturer in Media Studies and Digital Ethics and Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of History, Law and Social Sciences. From 2021 to September 2024, she was a Lecturer in Film and Media and Pastoral Care Lead and Disability Tutor for Film, Media and Journalism students in the School of Arts, Culture and Language. Prior to joining 麻豆网, she taught at King鈥檚 College London, where she also received her PhD in Film Studies.听
Her research interests lie within feminist and sociological approaches to both French cinema and sci-fi, with publications in French Screen Studies, Modern and Contemporary France, Studies in European Cinema and Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, where she also serves as an Editoral Consultant. She also co-edited The Cultural Heritage of Blade Runner: 鈥淢ore human than human," a forthcoming publication for Liverpool UP with Nathan Abrams (麻豆网) and Christopher L. Robinson (脡cole Polytechnique IP-Paris).
She co-organised the Blade Runner @40 (June 2022), Paul Verhoeven @85 (September 2023) and Terminator @40 (June 2024) conferences held at 麻豆网, as well as the Women in the Wake of May 68 (May 2018) conference held at King鈥檚 College London.
She currently teaches/convenes the following modules:
- UXS-1000 Issues in Media, Journalism and Politics
- UXS-2046: Media, Politics and Society
- UXS-2100/UXS-3100: Digital Journalism and Society
- UXS-2803/UXS-3083: AI Ethics
She previously taught/convened the following modules at 麻豆网:
- UXS-1021: Mass Culture: From the Printing Press to TikTok
- UXS-1063: Film History
- UXS-2064: Film Theory听
- UXS-2099: Research Skills and Methods
- UXS-2053/UXS-3053: Film Industry Development: From Global to Local听
- UXS-2062/UXS-3062 Film Distribution and Marketing听
- UXS-2050/UXS-3050: Race and Gender
- UXB-3901: Creative Practice Dissertation
- UXB-3900: Research Dissertation
- UXS-4720: Film Research Project
She has also contributed to the following modules as a Guest Lecturer or Seminar Leader:
- UXS-2025/UXS-3025: Stanley Kubrick: Auteur听
- UXS-4050: Creative Industries
- UXS-4101: Critical Approaches to Film
- QXE-4031: Post-Medieval Arthur
Qualifications
- Professional: Fellowship (HEA)
Advance HE, 2024 - Professional: Associate Fellow (HEA)
Advance HE, 2020 - PhD: The Modern Woman in 鈥淟ong鈥� 1960s French Cinema: Beyond the New Wave
King's College London, - MA: Film Curating
London Film School and Birkbeck, University of London, - BA: Film and Media Studies; Psychology
Washington University, St Louis,
Publications
2024
- E-pub ahead of print
Miller, E., 8 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: French Screen Studies. 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Book/Film/Article review
2023
- E-pub ahead of print
Hallet, M. & Miller, E., 23 Dec 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Modern and Contemporary France. 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
2022
- Published
Miller, E., 2022, In: Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. 143, 51.3, p. 83-86
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Review article
2020
- Published
Miller, E., 6 Feb 2020, In: Studies in French Cinema. 20, 2, p. 140-146 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Review article
2019
- Published
Miller, E., 28 May 2019, In: Studies in European Cinema. 19, 1, p. 85-87 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Review article
Activities
2023
Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) has left an indelible mark on popular culture. His films marry a European arthouse sensibility with the US blockbuster but in a wickedly satirical way. But this does not mean his films are not open to criticism.
His American dystopic trilogy 鈥� RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers (1997) 鈥� provided dark visions of futuristic metropoles that continues to resonate to this day, touching on capitalism, robotics, biopolitics, posthumanism, urban planning, artificial intelligence, transhumanism and climate change, while female-led dramas, such as Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995), Black Book (2006), Elle (2016) and Benedetta (2021), remain controversial for their overt eroticism, sexual violence and representation of lesbianism.
To critically explore the origins and legacies of Verhoeven鈥檚 body of work, this conference proposes to bring together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Paul Verhoeven鈥檚 output, debate its legacy and consider its position within visual culture including specialists from fields as diverse as literary and cinematographic studies; the history of art, design, fashion and architecture; musicology; philosophy; political sciences; computer science and robotics; urban and ecological studies; and feminist, queer and sexuality studies.
7 Sep 2023 鈥� 8 Sep 2023
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Co-rganiser of international panel titled: French Cinema in the Wake of the Women鈥檚 Liberation Front Stars, Directors, Collectives
Paper title: The Popular Feminism of Annie Girardot, France鈥檚 Highest-Paid Actress from 1968 to 1978
2023 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2022
Blade Runner @ 40: Origins and Legacies
6 Jun 2022 鈥� 7 Jun 2022
Links:
Delivered paper titled "Reclaiming Nadine Trintignant鈥檚 Place in French Women鈥檚 Filmmaking"
2022 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2021
20 Oct 2021
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Delivered paper titled: Working Women as Working Girls in Long 1960s French Cinema
2021 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Presented paper titled: The Working Woman in 鈥楲ong鈥� 1960s French Cinema
2021 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Delivered paper titled: 鈥淔rench Cinema鈥檚 New Erotic Woman: 1964-1973"
2021 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Delivered paper titled: From Working Girls to Working Women: Female Employment in Long 1960s French Cinema
2021 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2019
Presented paper titled: The 鈥楻eplacement Mother鈥� of 1960s French Cinema: A Fragmented Idealisation of Motherhood
2019 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Delivered paper titled: France鈥檚 Sexual Revolution and the Incestuous Mother Figure
2019 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Delivered paper titled: Abandoning Mothers of the French New Wave
2019 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Delivered paper titled: The Pregnancy-Seeking 鈥楳odern鈥� Heroine of 鈥楲ong鈥� 1960s French Auteur Cinema
2019 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2018
Presented paper titled: 'Erotissimo is the way of today:鈥� post-May 68 modernity in G茅rard Pir猫s鈥� Erotissimo (1969)
18 May 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)An interdisciplinary conference which brought together more than 70 people to look at the impact of May 68 on women鈥檚 lives and representation, including those on female artists, writers, directors, philosophers, and stars, as well as the representation of women in art, literature and popular, auteur and militant cinema.
May 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)Presented paper titled: The Radical Stances 脿 Sophie: Female Modernity in the Wake of May 68
2018 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Presented paper titled: Deeply Misogynistic or a Feminist Text?: Unravelling the meaning of Les Feux de la chandeleur (Serge Kober, 1972)
2018 鈫�
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)