BIO
In 2005 I left my post as Professor of Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University to join the Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex, from which I retired as a Reader in Film Studies in 2022. Since then, I’ve continued my activities as a writer and researcher. For further information, see my personal website and blog at: https://krutnik.com. I am a specialist in film studies, focusing especially American cinema, but have also written on other popular media. I taught at various universities in the UK, Scotland, the USA and Spain, and am the author, editor, or co-editor of several books in film studies, including the highly successful In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity (Routledge, 1991) and, with Steve Neale, Popular Film and Television Comedy (Routledge 1990), both of which have been continuously in print since their initial publication. Both books are used extensively on university courses across the world and are cited extensively in critical work on these topics. My monograph Inventing Jerry Lewis (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000) examines the career and cultural significance of a highly controversial entertainer, as a means of exploring intersections between cinema and other media, authorship, genre, comedy, stardom, performance, and the shifting contexts of US popular culture. I have also published a wide array of scholarly articles and chapters in critical anthologies. My next book, Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers: Radio and Film Noir, will be published by Rutgers University Press in 2024. email: f.s.krutnik@sussex.ac.uk