Overview
Lecturer in Film and Media
Qualifications
- Professional: Associate Fellow (Advance HE)
Advance HE, 2020 - PhD: The Modern Woman in “Long” 1960s French Cinema: Beyond the New Wave
King's College London, - MA: Film Curating
London Film School and Birkbeck, University of London, - BA: Film and Media Studies; Psychology
Washington University, St Louis,
Publications
2024
- E-pub ahead of printReassessing the French film industry, past and present
Miller, E., 8 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: French Screen Studies. 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2023
- E-pub ahead of printAbortion in French cinema during the long 1960s and beyond
Hallet, M. & Miller, E., 23 Dec 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Modern and Contemporary France. 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2022
- PublishedBlade Runner @40: Origins and Legacies
Miller, E., 2022, In: Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. 143, 51.3, p. 83-86
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
2020
- PublishedNew approaches to French cinema’s intermediality
Miller, E., 6 Feb 2020, In: Studies in French Cinema. 20, 2, p. 140-146 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
2019
- PublishedAlain Delon: style, stardom, and masculinity
Miller, E., 28 May 2019, In: Studies in European Cinema. 19, 1, p. 85-87 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Activities
2023
- Paul Verhoeven @ 85
Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) has left an indelible mark on popular culture. His films marry a European arthouse sensibility with the US blockbuster but in a wickedly satirical way. But this does not mean his films are not open to criticism.
His American dystopic trilogy – RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers (1997) – provided dark visions of futuristic metropoles that continues to resonate to this day, touching on capitalism, robotics, biopolitics, posthumanism, urban planning, artificial intelligence, transhumanism and climate change, while female-led dramas, such as Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995), Black Book (2006), Elle (2016) and Benedetta (2021), remain controversial for their overt eroticism, sexual violence and representation of lesbianism.
To critically explore the origins and legacies of Verhoeven’s body of work, this conference proposes to bring together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Paul Verhoeven’s output, debate its legacy and consider its position within visual culture including specialists from fields as diverse as literary and cinematographic studies; the history of art, design, fashion and architecture; musicology; philosophy; political sciences; computer science and robotics; urban and ecological studies; and feminist, queer and sexuality studies.
7 Sep 2023 – 8 Sep 2023
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference
Co-rganiser of international panel titled: French Cinema in the Wake of the Women’s Liberation Front Stars, Directors, Collectives
Paper title: The Popular Feminism of Annie Girardot, France’s Highest-Paid Actress from 1968 to 1978
2023 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2022
- Blade Runner at 40
Blade Runner @ 40: Origins and Legacies
6 Jun 2022 – 7 Jun 2022
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Delivered paper titled "Reclaiming Nadine Trintignant’s Place in French Women’s Filmmaking"
2022 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2021
- The Reconceptualisation of Motherhood in “Long” 1960s French Cinema
20 Oct 2021
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker) - BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies)
Delivered paper titled: Working Women as Working Girls in Long 1960s French Cinema
2021 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies)
Presented paper titled: The Working Woman in ‘Long’ 1960s French Cinema
2021 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies)
Delivered paper titled: “French Cinema’s New Erotic Woman: 1964-1973"
2021 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Screen Studies Conference
Delivered paper titled: From Working Girls to Working Women: Female Employment in Long 1960s French Cinema
2021 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2019
- BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) Conference
Presented paper titled: The ‘Replacement Mother’ of 1960s French Cinema: A Fragmented Idealisation of Motherhood
2019 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference
Delivered paper titled: France’s Sexual Revolution and the Incestuous Mother Figure
2019 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference
Delivered paper titled: Abandoning Mothers of the French New Wave
2019 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Screen Studies Conference (Screen)
Delivered paper titled: The Pregnancy-Seeking ‘Modern’ Heroine of ‘Long’ 1960s French Auteur Cinema
2019 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2018
- Women in the Wake of May 68
Presented paper titled: 'Erotissimo is the way of today:’ post-May 68 modernity in Gérard Pirès’ Erotissimo (1969)
18 May 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - Women in the Wake of May 68
An interdisciplinary conference which brought together more than 70 people to look at the impact of May 68 on women’s lives and representation, including those on female artists, writers, directors, philosophers, and stars, as well as the representation of women in art, literature and popular, auteur and militant cinema.
May 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) Conference
Presented paper titled: The Radical Stances à Sophie: Female Modernity in the Wake of May 68
2018 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference
Presented paper titled: Deeply Misogynistic or a Feminist Text?: Unravelling the meaning of Les Feux de la chandeleur (Serge Kober, 1972)
2018 →
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)