Composition: British film and television, adaptation studies, composition, British cultural studies, film and television directors, media history, arts documentary, the Cold War, videogames
Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 in English/film studies (dissertation - The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and, Genre). A book based on this project, called War Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and Beyond, was published in October 2019 by Palgrave.
In June 2016, he was a Guest Curator at the British Film Institute, where he co-programmed (with Matthew Harle) the "Architecture on TV" season. Flanagan and Harle's dossier on architectural programming on British television was published in Screen in 2018.
Flanagan contributed essays and an audio commentary to the critically acclaimed BFI blu-ray/DVD boxed set Ken Russell: The Great Composers (2016). Flanagan is editor of Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England's Last Mannerist (2009, Scarecrow Press) and has contributed essays to the Journal of British Cinema and Television, Framework, Critical Quarterly, South Atlantic Review, Adaptation, and many others. He contributed the "Videogame Adaptation" chapter to the Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (2017, ed. Thomas Leitch) and has edited a special issue of Widescreen Journal on the same subject. He regularly reviews books for Choice, Film & History, and the Journal of Popular Cinema and Television.
His soon-to-be published projects include pieces on The Wicker Man and its connection of witchcraft to occulded landscapes, and on the experience of young British soldiers in films about the Malayan emergency.
He teaches courses in composition, cultural history, and film studies.
Flanagan is slowly writing a book on uncanny spaces and landscapes in post-war British cinema and television.
He is currently working on two essays, one about Lindsay Anderson's film The White Bus and Townscape criticism and one on the cultural milieu of George A. Romero's Knightriders.
Flanagan, Kevin M. "Dropping Out: Interiority, Claustrophobia, and Decadence in Cosmopolitan London Cinema of the 60s and 70s." Global London on Screen, eds. Keith B. Wagner and Roland-Francois Lack (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2023): 44-60.
Flanagan, Kevin M. "Paternalism, Bohemianism, and the X Certificate: The Party's Over and the Pre-Swinging Set," Adult Themes: British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s, eds. Anne Etienne, Benjamin Halligan and Christopher Weedman (London: Bloomsbury, 2023): 111-128.
Flanagan, Kevin M. "Head Games: Adapting Lovecraft Beyond Survival Horror," The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft: Comic, Film, Video Game, Television, eds. Max Dos Passos and Tim Lanzendorfer (London: Palgrave, 2023), 263-277.
Flanagan, Kevin M., War Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and Beyond (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Britain and the World Book Series.
Flanagan, Kevin M. “The hosted architectural documentary on British television: Ian Nairn and the personalization of place,” Screen 59.1 (Spring 2018): 114-121
Flanagan, Kevin M. “Videogame Adaptation.” In Thomas Leitch, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (New York: Oxford UP, 2017), 441-454.
2021 Summer Funding from the Center for Humanities Research, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University - https://chr.gmu.edu/research/
ENGH101 - Composition
ENGH302 - Advanced Composition
ENGH202 - Texts and Contexts - Novels and Films about Hollywood and Filmmaking
ENGH372 - Introduction to Film
ENGH472 - Cult Films
HNRS240 - Reading the Past - The Cold War: Cultures & Legacies
B.A. - Literary and Cultural Studies, College of William and Mary '06
M.A. - English/Film Studies, North Carolina State University, '09
PH.D. - English/Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh, '15
“On or About Feb 23: Boutique Blu-Ray Sets and Ways of Viewing,” To Be Continued 3: Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations 9/14-9/15/23, online
“Exorcizing the Myths: Contextualizing the Amateur War Films of Peter Watkins,” Britain and the World 2023, 4/23/23
“Whose Law is it Anyway?: Detection, Magic, and the Uncanny Spaces of The Wicker Man,”; Chair of Panel on British Period Drama. PCA/ACA Virtual Conference, 4/13-16/22
"Youth and the Malayan Emergency: Generational Tensions and Ideological Dissonances in British War Films Made After the Conflict," Workshop on the Malayan Emergency in Film and Literature, Monash University Malaysia, 11/5/21