Dr Alice Haylett BryanLecturer in Film History Email: a.haylettbryan@qmul.ac.uk ProfileResearchPublicationsProfileI have a BA in Art History from Goldsmiths College London and an MA in Contemporary Cinema Cultures from King’s College London. After a few years working in the contemporary arts sector, I returned to KCL to study a PhD in Film Studies.ResearchResearch Interests:I specialise in the cultural politics of horror and extreme cinema, with a particular interest in modern to contemporary American, French, Japanese and South Korean horror. My current research looks at sexual rights and American horror media from the 1960s onwards.I am part of a community of scholars looking to de-Westernise Horror Studies, and was the co-organiser of the De-Westernising Horror conference held at King’s College London in 2022. I was also a contributor to Dr Alison Peirse’s 'Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History' videographic essay project.I am the co-editor of the 21st Century Horror series with Edinburgh University Press.PublicationsBooksGlobal Horror Production in the 21st Century, co-edited with Eddie Falvey (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press)Journal Articles and Video Essays‘Doing, Cutting, Making: Female Editors in Korean Horror Cinema’ [video essay], MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture special issue titled ‘Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History’ edited by Alison Pierse (forthcoming)‘Inhospitable landscapes: Contemporary French Horror Cinema, Immigration and Identity’, French Screen Studies Vol. 21, No.3 (2021)‘“I Only Like Seeing Myself in Small Bits”: Catherine Breillat’s Reflections of the Female Body’, Cine-Excess No. 2 (2016)Chapters‘“I feel I need to stick my hand in my mother”: Only God Forgives and the Womb Phantasy’, in ReFocus: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn, edited by Eddie Falvey and Tom Watson (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press)‘“There is something seriously rotten in the state of France”: French Horror Cinema and its Cult Status’, in Reappraising Cult Horror Films, edited by Lee Broughton (forthcoming with Bloomsbury)‘The ‘Weird’ Sex Scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos’, in: The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: Films, Form, Philosophy, edited by Eddie Falvey (London: Bloomsbury, 2022)‘"You have absolutely no control over your mind and body anymore": Pregnancy, Autonomy and Prepartum Anxiety in Alice Lowe's Prevenge’, in: Mothers of Invention: Film, Media and Caregiving Labor, edited by So Mayer and Corinn Columpar (Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2022)‘Catherine Breillat’, in: The Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication, edited by Karen Ross (Hoboken: Wiley- Blackwell, 2020)‘Surgery, Blood and Patriarchal Sex: Excision and American Mary’, in: Transgression in Anglo-American cinema: Gender, Sex and the Deviant Body, edited by Joel Robert Gwynne (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016)Other writing‘Pregnancy in the time of Covid19: Maternal self-focus and Kristevan Herethics’, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2020)