Faculty Member, Communication, Film and Media
About
Tina Kendall is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. Her primary research specialisms are in contemporary French and European cinema, and in continental film-philosophy.
Her recent work addresses the turn towards graphic representations of sex and violence in the films of the 'new extremism'. She is co-editor of _The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe_ (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). Her chapter for this volume develops the notion of 'tacky spectatorship' in the films of the new extremism through an exploration of Christophe Honoré's adaptation of Georges Bataille's _Ma Mère_.
She has also published work on intermediality in Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher (New Review of Film & TV), and has a chapter forthcoming (Intellect Press), which explores the notion of a 'digital uncanny' as it applies to DVD stills gallery features.
She has also edited a special issue of Film-Philosophy on disgust (15.2, September 2011), and is currently preparing a monograph study on the films of Bruno Dumont.
