Dr Matthew Melia
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- Department of Journalism, Publishing and Media
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- School of Arts
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer and Course leader of the Humanities Foundation Degree
- Email:
- m.melia@kingston.ac.uk
About
I graduated in 2001 at the University of Aberdeen (Joint MA Hons English-Lit / History of Art) and was awarded my PhD from Kingston University ('Architecture and Cruelty in the Writings of Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet') in 2007.
I currently teach across film, media and English Literature and I am the Course leader for the Humanities Foundation degree
My current and ongoing research concentrates on the work of both Stanley Kubrick and Ken Russell. I co-edited The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the classic Summer Blockbuster (Bloomsbury); Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange (Palgrave, 2023 ); 'Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange' (Special edition of Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television) and edited ReFocus: The Films of Ken Russell (EUP, 2023 ). I am currently working on a monograph about Ken Russell's 1986 film Gothic. Forthcoming publications include an edited collection for Bloomsbury, The Jurassic Park Book (2023), a special edition of the journal Cinergie Il Cine e le Altre Arti, 'Franchising Jurassic Park' (2023) .
My research (and teaching) is archive focused and I have a particular research interest in the both study of archives themselves and in the phenomena of the unmade and abandoned project. I am co-convener of the Special Interest Group (SIG) 'Archives and Archival Methods' (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies).
I have taught modules on British cinema and cult and transgressive film and literature and am interested in the tension between analogue and digital media as well as dead technology.
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Qualifications
- Joint MA (Hons) English Literature - History of Art (2.1) - University of Aberdeen (2001)
- PhD (Architecture and Cruelty in the Writings of Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet) - Kingston University (2007)
- PgCert (higher education teaching certificate) - Kingston University - 2010.
Domains
Courses taught
I am currently on the advisory board/editorial committee for a book series forthcoming from Intellect on Unmade Films as well as co-Founder of the BAFTSS Archives and Archival Methods Special Interest Group.
I spend a considerable amount of time in the Stanley Kubrick Archives where I am also carrying out resesarch for a book project based around production design and the production history of A Clockwork Orange. I presented this research at the 2019 SCMS conference in Seattle.
In 2018 I co-organized and led on A Clockwork Orange entitled A Clockwork Symposium in partnership with the Kubrick Archives / LCC, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation and Kingston University.
In 2016 I organized and led a major conference, Ken Russell: Perspectives Reception and Legacy at Kingston University.
Specialisms
- Beckett, Genet, Artaud, Cruelty and the Absurd
- Stanley Kubrick
- Ken Russell
- Anthony Burgess
- Archives, and the unmade
Scholarly affiliations
- BAFTSS Archives and Archival Methods Special Interest Group
- IAMHIST
I am course leader for the Humanities Foundation Degree
Publications
The Jurassic Park book : new perspectives on the classic 1990s blockbuster
Melia, Matthew (2023). London, U.K.: (Bloomsbury Academic)
Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange
(2023). Cham, Switzerland: (Palgrave Macmillan)
ReFocus: the films of Ken Russell
(2022). Edinburgh, U.K.: (Edinburgh University Press)
The 'Jaws' book : new perspectives on the classic summer blockbuster
(2020). London, U.K.: (Bloomsbury Academic)
Franchising 'Jurassic Park' : introduction
Melia, Matthew, 2023, Cinergie – Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti (12), 24, pp 1-11
John Sayles and the unmade 'Jurassic Park IV'
Melia, Matthew, 2023, Cinergie – Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti (12), 24, pp 71-86
The shared history of Stanley Kubrick’s 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971) and Ken Russell’s 'The Devils' (1971)
Melia, Matthew, 2022, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (42), 1, pp 8-23
"Very nearly an armful!" : British post-war comedy and the NHS
Melia, Matt, 2020, VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture (9), 18, pp 37-54
Stanley Kubrick at the interface of film and television
Melia, Matthew, 2018, Essais : Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Humanites, 4, pp 195-219
Altered states, altered spaces : architecture, space and landscape in the film and television of Stanley Kubrick and Ken Russell
Melia, Matthew, 2017, Cinergie : Il Cinema e le Altre Arti (12), pp 139-152
'The post Kubrickian' : Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Melia, Matthew, 2017, Screening the Past (42)
Reading the scream in Peter Strickland's 'Berberian Sound Studio'
Melia, Matthew, 2017, Frames Cinema Journal (11)
Just how heroic is Star Trek's "I don't like to lose" James T. Kirk?
Melia, Matt, 2016, Popmatters.com
(Re)positioning Ken Russell as a cult horror auteur
Melia, Matthew (2024). In: Broughton, Lee, (ed.), Reappraising cult horror films : from Carnival of Souls to Last Night in Soho. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Publishing
Introduction
Melia, Matthew (2023). In: Melia, Matthew, (ed.), The Jurassic Park book : new perspectives on the classic 1990s blockbuster. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic
Jurassic Park : disaster, chaos and existential threat
Melia, Matthew (2023). In: Melia, Matthew, (ed.), The Jurassic Park book : new perspectives on the classic 1990s blockbuster. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic
Introduction
Melia, Matthew and Orgill, Georgina (2023). In: Melia, Matthew, (eds.) and Orgill, Georgina, (eds.), Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 1-21
Old age, ageing and fatherhood in Kubrick
Melia, Matthew (2023). In: Ritzenhoff, Karen A., (eds.), Metlić, Dijana, (eds.) and Szaniawski, Jeremi, (eds.), Gender, power, and identity in the films of Stanley Kubrick. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 291-307
Scripting 'A Clockwork Orange'
Melia, Matthew (2023). In: Melia, Matthew, (eds.) and Orgill, Georgina, (eds.), Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 69-94
Space and location in The X-Files
Melia, Matthew (2023). In: Fenwick, James, (eds.) and Rodgers, Diane A., (eds.), The legacy of The X-Files. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 23-44
'Eyes wide shut' : a cult film?
Melia, Matthew (2022). 'Eyes wide shut' : behind Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press
Introduction
Melia, Matthew (2022). In: Melia, Matthew, (ed.), ReFocus: the films of Ken Russell. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press, pp 1-22
Ken Russell's gothic modernism
Melia, Matthew (2022). In: Melia, Matthew, (ed.), ReFocus : the films of Ken Russell. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press, pp 69-95
Kubrick and Britain
Melia, Matthew (2021). In: Hunter, I.Q., (eds.) and Abrams, Nathan, (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick. Bloomsbury Academic
Ken Russell's unfinished projects and unmade films, 1956-1968 : the BBC years
Melia, Matthew (2020). In: Fenwick, James, (eds.), Foster, Kieran, (eds.) and Eldridge, David, (eds.), Shadow cinema : the historical and production context of unmade films. New York, U.S.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 91-108
Landscape, imagery and symbolism in Alejandro Jodorowsky's 'El Topo'
Melia, Matthew (2020). In: Broughton, Lee, (ed.), Reframing cult westerns : From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 93-110
Relocating the western in 'Jaws'
Melia, Matthew (2020). In: Hunter, IQ, (eds.) and Melia, Matthew, (eds.), The 'Jaws' book : new perspectives on the classic summer blockbuster. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic
The scream in visual culture: the scream as fearful response
Melia, Matthew (2014). In: Smith, Shilinka, (eds.) and Hill, Shona, (eds.), Transforming fear, horror and terror; multidisciplinary reflections. Oxford, U.K.: Inter-disciplinary Press
"Oh what's the bloody point?": a deconstruction of Kenneth William's life, screen and written performances and their reflection in the biopic Fantabulosa (BBC 2006)
Melia, Matthew(2009). In: Performing lives, 06 - 08 Jul 2009 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
Architecture and cruelty in the writings of Antonin Artaud, Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett
Melia, Matthew (2007), PhD thesis, Kingston University