Dr Alex Clayton
BA(Warw.), MA(Kent), PhD(Kent)
Current positions
Associate Professor in Film and Television
Department of Film and Television
Contact
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Research interests
My work explores varieties of achievement in fiction film and television, with particular focus on comedy, screen performance, and the construction of viewpoint. I am interested in the kinds of reasons that may be offered to explain an aesthetic response or support a critical appraisal, and in the challenges of description that arise when seeking to account for the specificity of an audiovisual work.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Media and Criminal Studies Network -- GW4 Accelerator Grant
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
To consolidate study network and develop bids for future projects on transparency and the digital courtroomManaging organisational unit
Department of Film and TelevisionDates
01/07/2016 to 28/02/2017
Media and Criminal Justice Studies Network -- GW4 Initiator Grant
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
To develop a network to study the introduction of cameras into courtroomsManaging organisational unit
Department of Film and TelevisionDates
01/11/2015 to 31/01/2016
Thesis supervisions
Tracing the thread
Supervisors
Nonprofessional Performance in Fiction Film
Supervisors
In pursuit of collective laughter
Supervisors
Lost and Found
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
30/05/2023Columbo
Epic/Everyday
Mind The Gap
Autism in Film and Television
Seeing justice done
Crime, Media, Culture
Recent publications
28/03/2025L'Atalante, or the Virtues of Messiness
Conspicuous Identity and the Casting of Strangers on a Train
Acting and Performance in Hitchcock
Wittgenstein and the Critical Itch
Columbo
Epic/Everyday
Mind The Gap
Autism in Film and Television