Dr Laura Mayne

Dr Laura Mayne

Lecturer

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of The Arts

Qualifications

  • MA (University of St Andrews)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Portsmouth)

Summary

Laura Mayne is a film historian who specializes in post-war British cinema with an emphasis on industrial histories, institutional practices and production cultures. In 2019 she co-authored Transformation and Tradition in Sixties British Cinema (Edinburgh University Press), an in-depth reassessment of the nature and significance of British cinema and the British film industry during the 1960s. She is currently working on a monograph titled 'Slumdogs and Millionaires: Channel 4 and the British Film Industry, 1982-1998'. She is a review editor for the Bloomsbury book series 'Global Exploitation Cinemas'.

Recent outputs

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Book

Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema

Farmer, R., Mayne, L., Petrie, D., & Williams, M. (2019). Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema. Edinburgh University Press

Journal Article

A World on His Shoulders: Nat Cohen, Anglo-EMI and the British Film Industry

Mayne, L. (2021). A World on His Shoulders: Nat Cohen, Anglo-EMI and the British Film Industry. Journal of British cinema and television, 18(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0554

An Uncompetitive Cinema: The British Fiction Short Film in the 1960s

Mayne, L. (2018). An Uncompetitive Cinema: The British Fiction Short Film in the 1960s. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 38(1), 116-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2017.1300000

Whatever happened to the British 'B' movie? Micro-budget film-making and the death of the one-hour supporting feature in the early 1960s

Mayne, L. (2017). Whatever happened to the British ‘B’ movie? Micro-budget film-making and the death of the one-hour supporting feature in the early 1960s. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 37(3), 559-576. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2016.1220765

Report

The Time Project: Understanding working time in the UK television industry

Mayne, L., Swords, J., Ozimek, A., & Boardman, C. (2022). The Time Project: Understanding working time in the UK television industry. York: Screen Industries Growth Network

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Bridging the expectation gap: Career pathways for entrants to the film and TV industries

Funder

Screen Industries Growth Network

Grant

£50,000.00

Started

1 March 2023

Status

Complete

Awards and prizes

Best Article by New Scholar (IAMHIST)

2017

The Philip M. Taylor IAMHIST-Routledge Prize for the Best Article by a New Scholar: Laura Mayne, ‘Whatever happened to the British “B” movie? Micro-budget film-making and the death of the one-hour supporting feature in the early 1960s’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 37: 3, pp.559-576.

Honorary position

Honourary Research Fellow, CATHI (De Montfort University) Research Centre

2016 - 2019

Journal editorial role

Book Series Editor, Global Exploitation Cinemas [Bloomsbury]

2020

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