Stephen Harper Portrait
<91ÈÕº«AV class="hero-details__heading hero-details__heading--main" > Dr Stephen Harper

Senior Lecturer

Stephen.Harper@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies Film and media Social theory Film Studies and Screen Practice Research Conflict and Culture Research Group Peace, Conflict and Security Research Group
<91ÈÕº«AV>Biography

I came to 91ÈÕº«AV in 2005, after teaching English and Media Studies at the universities of Glasgow and Lancaster and working in the public sector in the late 1990s. I take an interdisciplinary approach to Media Studies, combining interests in television and film studies, textual analysis, and critical theory.

<91ÈÕº«AV>Research interests

My research focuses on the representation of political and social issues in television and film. I have published several monographs and anthologies, as well as many dozens of peer-reviewed scholarly articles, focusing principally on:

  • television and film images of war and geopolitics
  • the mediation of mental distress
  • contemporary screen representations of class, gender and 'race'
  • British television drama and docudrama