Lindsay Steenberg
UBC T&F Succeed!
Dr. Lindsay Steenberg, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England focuses on violence and gender in postmodern and postfeminist media culture.
Dr. Lindsay Steenberg is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on violence and gender in postmodern and postfeminist media culture. She has published numerous articles and chapters on the subject of the crime genre on film and television. She is the author of Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science.
University of British Columbia MA in Film Studies 2005
When I began my Master’s at UBC, I was infinitely keen on studying the cinema but nervous after a break from university study. Within weeks of meeting my professors, and teaching my first cohort of students, I knew for certain that an academic career was the only option for me. Being offered the experience to teach on undergraduate classes was one of the greatest opportunities that UBC provided for me. It allowed me to learn how to channel my enthusiasm for Film Studies and transform it into something accessible and informative for students. The experience of writing a dissertation was also foundational for me – choosing a topic, working with a dedicated and generous supervisor, testing my ability to work independently and unravel complex problems around popular cinema. It was one of the most rewarding tasks I performed during my MA. I still teach subject matter from that project (on postfeminist action heroines) to this day. UBC’s faculty taught me a comprehensive foundation of Film Studies that gave me confidence to begin my PhD study in the UK. And because the faculty treated me and my work with the interest and respect of a possible future colleague, I grew in confidence and in skill and was able to find a place as a film scholar – teacher, writer and researcher.
Future Projects:
I am currently working towards to big projects. The first focuses on the shifting nature of postforensic crime television in a global media landscape – from middle broadcast television to the Anglo-American reception of Nordic noir. The second project branches out to explore violence and crime and its relationship to hyperreal perceptions of history. Here I trace a gladiatorial impulse in the cinema from historically set action films like Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) to the politics of post-apocalyptic combat in the Hunger Games franchise.
Watch the roundtable discussion with Lindsay and UBC Film professors Lisa Coulthard, Christine Evans and Brian McIlroy.
http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/50b039381c2b4fd7a2747a0f46ee85661d
