Professor Will Brooker

About

I joined Kingston University in 2005 and was head of the Film Department for four years, followed by four years as the Director of Research in Film. I became Professor of Film and Cultural Studies in 2013. 

Academic responsibilities

Professor of Film and Cultural Studies

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) Film and English, University of East Anglia
  • Postgraduate Diploma, Filmmaking, Goldsmiths College
  • MA Film and Television, University of Westminster
  • PhD Cultural Studies, Cardiff University

Teaching and learning

I teach primarily on the BA Hons in Film Cultures, the BA Hons in Media and Communication, and the two MA programmes in Film and Media. I deliver guest lectures across the Faculty and supervise PhD students.

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

My research explores the changing meanings of cultural icons across different historical and cultural contexts, and my books include Batman Unmasked, Using the Force, Alice's Adventures, The Audience Studies Reader, The Blade Runner Experience, the BFI volume on Star Wars, Hunting the Dark Knight, Why Bowie Matters and Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across The Universe. My next book is The Truth About Lisa Jewell.

Areas of specialism

  • Cultural history and cultural icons
  • Film history and analysis
  • Audience interpretations
  • Fan studies
  • Comics and superheroes

Research student supervision

Main supervision

Other supervision

Publications

Number of items: 48.

Article

Brooker, Will (2021) Filling in the gaps : creative imagination and nostalgia in ZX Spectrum gaming. Participations : Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 18(2), pp. 3-43. ISSN (online) 1749-8716

Brooker, Will (2016) Alice's evidence : examining the cultural afterlife of Lewis Carroll in 1932. Cultural History, 5(1), pp. 1-25. ISSN (print) 2045-290X

Brooker, Will (2012) Cloaked in shadow: an anti-hero for our times. Film review of: 'The Dark Knight rises' directed by Christopher Nolan. Times Higher Education(2,059), pp. 44-45. ISSN (print) 0049-3929

Brooker, Will (2011) Hero of the beach: Flex Mentallo at the end of the worlds. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, 2(1), pp. 25-37. ISSN (print) 2150-4857

Brooker, Will (2010) 'Now you're thinking with portals': media training for a digital environment. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 13(6), pp. 553-573. ISSN (print) 1367-8779

Brooker, Will (2009) All our variant futures: the many narratives of Blade runner: the final cut. Popular Communication, 7(2), pp. 79-91. ISSN (print) 1540-5702

Brooker, Will (2009) Camera-eye, CG-eye: videogames and the 'cinematic'. Cinema Journal, 48(3), pp. 122-128. ISSN (print) 0009-7101

Brooker, Will (2009) Maps of many worlds: remembering computer game fandom in the 1980s. Transformative Works and Cultures, 2, ISSN (online) 1941-2258

Brooker, Will (2005) Book review of 'A short history of cultural studies' by John Hartley. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 8(1), pp. 122-125. ISSN (print) 1367-8779

Brooker, Will (2005) "It is love": the Lewis Carroll Society as fan community. American Behavioral Scientist, 48(7), pp. 859-880. ISSN (print) 0002-7642

Brooker, Will (2004) Book review of 'Matters of gravity: special effects and supermen in the 20th century' by Scott Bukatman. Popular Communication, 2(3), pp. 171-177. ISSN (print) 1540-5702

Brooker, Will [Reviewer] (2003) Film Review of: A galaxy far away, directed by Tariq Jalil. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 14(1), pp. 102-105. ISSN (print) 0897-0521

Brooker, Will (2001) Living on Dawson's Creek: teen viewers, cultural convergence and television overflow. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(4), pp. 456-472. ISSN (print) 1367-8779

Brooker, Will (2001) Readings of racism: interpretation, stereotyping and The Phantom Menace. Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, 15(1), pp. 15-32. ISSN (print) 1030-4312

Brooker, Will (2001) Book review of 'Inside subculture: the postmodern meaning of style' by David Muggleton. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(1), pp. 111-127. ISSN (print) 1367-8779

Book

Brooker, Will (2023) Never-ending watchmen : adaptations, sequels, prequels and remixes. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. 256p. ISBN 9781350198746 (In Press)

Brooker, Will (2022) The truth about Lisa Jewell. London, U.K. : Penguin. 352p. ISBN 9781529136029 (In Press)

Brooker, Will (2019) Why Bowie matters. London : William Collins. 308p. ISBN 9780008313722

Brooker, Will (2017) Forever Stardust : David Bowie across the Universe. London, U.K. : I B Tauris. 256p. ISBN 9781784531423

Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, eds. (2015) Many more lives of The Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. 248p. ISBN 9781844577651

Brooker, Will (2012) Hunting the Dark Knight: Batman in Twenty-first Century Popular Culture. London, U.K. : I.B. Tauris. 272p. ISBN 9781848852792

Brooker, Will (2009) Star Wars. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 96p. (BFI film classics) ISBN 1844572773

Brooker, Will (2004) Alice's adventures: Lewis Carroll in popular culture. New York; London : Continuum. 380p. ISBN 0826414338

Brooker, Will, ed. (2004) The Blade Runner experience: the legacy of a science fiction classic. London, U.K. : Wallflower Press. 250p. ISBN 1904764304

Brooker, Will and Jermyn, Deborah, eds. (2003) The audience studies reader. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 347p. ISBN 0415254345

Brooker, Will (2002) Using the force: creativity, community and Star Wars fans. New York, U.S. : Continuum. 254p. ISBN 0826452876

Brooker, Will (2001) Batman unmasked: analyzing a cultural icon. London, U.K. : Continuum. ISBN 0826413439

Book Section

Brooker, Will (2023) Mementos of the afternoon : Christopher Nolan's ambiguous debt to Maya Deren. In: Parkinson, Claire and Labrouillère, Isabelle, (eds.) A critical companion to Christopher Nolan. Lanham. U.S. : Lexington Books. pp. 213-228. ISBN 9781793652515

Brooker, Will (2022) 'The world is built on a wall' : deconstructing 'Blade Runner 2049' (2017). In: McSweeney, Terence and Joy, Stuart, (eds.) Contemporary American science fiction film. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 160-176. ISBN 9781032039640

Brooker, Will (2015) Batgirl : continuity, crisis and feminism. In: Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, (eds.) Many more lives of the Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. pp. 134-152. ISBN 9781844577651

Brooker, Will (2015) Building a better kickstarter: crowdfunding my so-called secret identity. In: Bennett, Lucy , Chin, Bertha and Jones, Bethan, (eds.) Crowdfunding the future: media industries, ethics, and digital society. New York, U.S. : Peter Lang. pp. 233-238. (Digital formations, (98)) ISBN 9781433126819

Brooker, Will (2015) Fifth-dimensional Batman : an interview with Grant Morrison. In: Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, (eds.) Many more lives of the Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. pp. 43-52. ISBN 9781844577651

Pearson, Roberta, Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will (2015) Introduction : revisiting the Batman. In: Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, (eds.) Many more lives of the Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781844577651

Brooker, Will (2015) Time again : the David Bowie chronotope. In: Cinque, Toija , Moore, Christopher and Redmond, Sean, (eds.) Enchanting David Bowie : space time body memory. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 87-102. ISBN 9781628923049

Brooker, Will (2014) Going pro: gendered responses to the incorporation of fan labour as user-generated content. In: Mann, Denise, (ed.) Wired TV: laboring over an interactive future. New Brunswick, U.S. : Rutgers University Press. pp. 72-97. ISBN 9780813564548

Brooker, Will (2013) Talking to the TARDIS: Doctor Who, Neil Gaiman and cultural mythology. In: Mellor, David and Hills, Matt, (eds.) New dimensions of ‘Doctor Who’: exploring space, time and television. London, U.K. : I.B.Tauris. (Reading Contemporary Television) ISBN 9781845118662

Brooker, Will (2009) Television out of time: watching cult shows on download. In: Pearson, Roberta, (ed.) Reading Lost: perspectives on a hit television show. London, U.K. : I. B. Tauris. pp. 51-72. ISBN 1845118367

Brooker, Will (2007) A sort of homecoming: fan viewing and symbolic pilgrimage. In: Gray, Jonathan , Sandvoss, Cornel and Harrington, C. Lee, (eds.) Fandom: identities and communities in a mediated world. New York, U.S. : New York University Press. pp. 149-164. ISBN 9780814731826

Brooker, Will (2006) The best Batman story: The dark knight returns. In: McKee, Alan, (ed.) Beautiful things in popular culture. Oxford, UK : Blackwell. pp. 33-48. ISBN 1405131918

Brooker, Will (2004) The Blade Runner experience: pilgrimage and liminal space. In: Brooker, Will, (ed.) The Blade Runner experience: the legacy of a science fiction classic. London, UK : Wallflower Press. pp. 11-30. ISBN 1904764304

Brooker, Will (2004) Introduction: 2019 vision. In: Brooker, Will, (ed.) The Blade Runner experience: the legacy of a science fiction classic. London, UK : Wallflower Press. pp. 1-10. ISBN 1904764304

Brooker, Will (2004) Living on Dawson's Creek: teen viewers, cultural convergence, and television overflow. In: Allen, Robert C. and Hill, Annette, (eds.) The television studies reader. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 569-580. ISBN 9780415283243

Brooker, Will (2004) New hope: the postmodern project of Star Wars. In: Redmond, Sean, (ed.) Liquid metal: the science fiction film reader. London, U.K. : Wallflower. pp. 298-307. ISBN 1903364876

Brooker, Will (2003) Conclusion: overflow and audience. In: Brooker, Will and Jermyn, Deborah, (eds.) The audience studies reader. Abingdon, UK : Routledge. pp. 322-334. ISBN 0415254345

Brooker, Will (2003) Rescuing Strange days: fan reaction to a critical and commercial failure. In: Jermyn, Deborah and Redmond, Sean, (eds.) The cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood transgressor. London, U.K. : Wallflower. pp. 198-219. ISBN 1903364426

Brooker, Will (2002) Book Review of 'Straight reading, resistance, reappropriation, and heterosexuality' by Richard Bradshaw. In: Hague, Angela and Lavery, David, (eds.) Teleparody: predicting/ preventing the tv discourse of tomorrow. London, U.K. : Wallflower. pp. 123-126. ISBN 1903364396

Conference or Workshop Item

Brooker, Will (2015) Time again : narrative, history and identity in the work of David Bowie. In: The Stardom and Celebrity of David Bowie; 17-18 Jul 2015, Melbourne, Australia. (Unpublished)

Moving Image/Broadcast

Brooker, Will and Hughes, Rebecca (2016) Being Bowie. (audiovisual essay).

This list was generated on Wed Sep 13 07:10:31 2023 BST.