Kevin Flanagan

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.

He has forthcoming essays in anthologies or edited books on Ken Russell's engagement with Frankenstein; videogame adaptations related to H.P. Lovecraft; interiority and London cinema in films by expatriate directors; an exploration on paternalism and bohemian in London youth cinema focused on The Party's Over (1965); and an analysis of the "magic" of uncanny spaces in The Wicker Man (1973). Additionally, he has 10 entries in the forthcoming London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia (ed. Kevin A. Morrison).

He teaches courses in composition, rhetoric, and film.

Current Research

He is currently writing a book of biographical sketches of outside, eccentric, and polymath figures in Post-War British cultural life. He is also writing a book on uncanny spaces and landscapes in post-war British cinema and television.

As of Fall 2021, he is preparing pieces for conferences or workshops on competing visions of the "retreat to medievalism" in contemporary film and television; an exploration of generational conflict in films about the Malayan Emergency; and an analysis of the "magic" of uncanny spaces in The Wicker Man (1973).

Selected Publications

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

Flanagan, Kevin M., ed. Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England’s Last Mannerist (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press: 2009).

Courses Taught

ENGH 101 - Composition

ENGH 302 - Advanced Composition

ENGH 202 - Texts and Contexts - Novels and Films about Hollywood and Filmmaking

ENGH 372 - Introduction to Film

HNRS 240 - Reading the Past - The Cold War: Cultures & Legacies

Education

PH.D. - English/Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh, '15

M.A. - English/Film Studies, North Carolina State University, '09

B.A. - Literary and Cultural Studies, College of William and Mary '06