Summary
Qualifications
•MA in English and American Literature (University of Warwick)
•PhD in Film and Television Studies (University of Warwick)
Summary
Iris Kleinecke-Bates is a lecturer in Film and Television Studies. She teaches and researches in television, media, film, and cultural studies. Her research specialism are in period drama, adaptation, memory and nostalgia, television studies, with a particular interest in the intersection of identity and material object reality.
Iris has published on period drama, adaptation, representation of the past, memory and nostalgia, and more recently on material cultures of television. In 2016 she organised a 2-day conference titled 'Material Cultures of Television' at the University of Hull, and subsequently published on, and edited, a special edition in the Journal of Popular Television on this subject.
She is currently working on a monograph about post-apocalyptic realities across different media forms.
Iris is a member of the editorial board for Open Screens, the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access online journal of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (https://www.openscreensjournal.com/). She is also a member of the editorial board for Multiplay, the network for multidisciplinary research on Digital Play and Games (https://multiplaynetwork.org/).
Previous publications:
Museums of Civilisation: Memory Spaces and Curating in Post-Apocalyptic visual fictions. In: Videogames and Nostalgia, Routledge. Forthcoming
Building the End of the World: Post-Apocalyptic visual fictions of the 21st century. Monograph. Palgrave. Forthcoming.
Journal of Popular Television Volume 7, Issue 2, 2019: Special Issue: ‘Material Cultures of Television’. Edited Iris Kleinecke-Bates
‘Television style/stylish television: Mad Men, tele-vision and the fashioning of the self’ (2019), article, Journal of Popular Television, 7:2, p. 217–34.
‘Material cultures of television’ (2019), article, Journal of Popular Television 7:2, p. 121-125.
Victorians on Screen: The Nineteenth Century on British Television (2014), 1994-2005, monograph, Palgrave
Book Review, published in the Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, (September 2011). Dianne F. Sadoff (2009), Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen. University of Minnesota Press.
‘Flog It!; Nostalgia and Lifestyle on British Daytime Television’ (2010). Article, published in Televising History, ed. by Ann Grey and Erin Bell. Basingstoke: Palgrave, MacMillan.
‘Imagining Victoriana: Bleak House and the case of British television’ (2009). Article, published in Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities, ed. by Rachel Carroll/ London: Continuum.
‘Heritage, History and Gardening: The Victorian Kitchen Garden (BBC/Sveringes Television 2, 1987) and the Representation of the Victorian Age as Cultural Homeland’. Article, published in Visual Culture in Britain, 10:1, March 2009.
‘Representations of the Victorian Age: Interior Spaces and the Detail of Domestic Life in Two Adaptations of Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga’ (2006). Article, Screen, Vol 47, no. 2 (Summer).