Dr Laura Mayne L.Mayne@hull.ac.uk Faculty and Department Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education School of The Arts Related groups Screen Biography Outputs Recognition Qualifications MA (University of St Andrews) PhD (University of Portsmouth) Summary Laura Mayne is a lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Hull. Her research specialism is 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 View more outputs 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 The Four Heads of Film4 Smith, J., & Mayne, L. (2014). The Four Heads of Film4. Journal of British cinema and television, 11(4), 517-551. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2014.0232 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 Similar profiles Helen Mitchell Screen Dr James Zborowski Screen Robert Consoli Screen