Who's who
Dr Sarah Arnold
Lecturer
BA, MA, PhD
Academic interests
Sarah Arnold is Lecturer in Film and Digital Media. Her educational background is in Film Studies. Beginning with a Certificate in Film, Sarah moved on to a BA in Film Studies, followed by an MA in Film, and, finally a PhD in Film from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Sarah has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has taught production at the New Media Technology College in Dublin; film theory at the National University of Galway, Ireland; film, television, media and culture at Southampton Solent University before moving to University College Falmouth. She currently teaches on Criticism, Analysis and Theory; Postmodernism, Film and New Media, History of the Moving Image: Future; and supervises dissertation projects.
Sarah's research interests include gender, psychoanalysis and film, horror and science fiction film, and Japanese film. She is currently preparing a monograph on the maternal in Western and Eastern horror film. She is also interested in film in the digital age, film and new media aesthetics and media convergence.
Recent outputs
Sarah has delivered research papers at international conferences on subjects including British apocalyptic film, intergenerational love in American independent film, landscape in Irish horror, and national borders in East Asian cinema. Academic papers include the chapter The Ring and Ringu: Naturalising Maternal Self-Sacrifice in the edited collection Bound By Love: Familial Bonding in Film and Television since 1950, and Dark Water and adaptation, for the journal Cinema Jura Gentium.
Current projects/forthcoming outputs
Current research projects include a chapter on sadomasochism and desire in the television series True Blood for the edited collection Tainted Love, as well as a co-edited book on film theory underpinning practice.
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