Dr Mark Glancy
Senior Lecturer in History
Location: Arts Two 4.12email: h.m.glancy@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7882 8358
Dr Mark Glancy took his first degree at the University of Lancaster, and an MA and a PhD at the University of East Anglia. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in American and British film history at Queen Mary, and he is the convenor of the postgraduate seminar in Film History at the University of London’s Institute of Historical Research. The current seminar programme is available online
Research interests:
Dr Glancy has conducted research in many areas of film history, including the Hollywood studio system, Alfred Hitchcock’s films, feature films in wartime, and cinema-going in Britain and the United States. He has written many articles on historical films for BBC History Magazine. In 2011, he served as the guest editor of an issue of The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television devoted to British Cinema and the Second World War: Audiences, Cinema-going and Popular Films. The issue can be accessed online.
In recent years he has also published in the journal Screen and contributed chapters to the collections Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of the Cinema (edited by Maltby, Stokes and Allen), British Women’s Cinema (edited by Bell and Williams) and Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter (edited by Palmer and Boyd).
He was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant for a research project centred on the reception of American films in Britain, and this research forms the basis of his next book, Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain, from the 1920s to the present (forthcoming from Tauris).
Postgraduate supervision:
Dr Glancy welcomes applications from students working in all fields of film history.
Publications:
The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches (co-editor and contributor) (Palgrave, 2007).
The 39 Steps: A British Film Guide (Tauris, 2003)
When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood ‘British’ Film, 1939-45 (Manchester University Press, 1999)
Online publications
Two of Dr Glancy’s contributions to the British Film Institute’s Directors in British and Irish Cinema (2006) can be read on the BFI’s screenonline website:
Undergraduate teaching:
Critical Approaches to Film: Film Noir (Level 4)
Film History: The United States and the Second World War (Level 6)
Film History: The United States in the Postwar Era (Level 6)
Cinema and Society: Britain, 1930-1960 (Level 6)