Dr Louis Bayman

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Dr Louis Bayman is lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton.

I studied at the Universities of Glasgow, Warwick and King's College, London, where I completed my AHRC-funded PhD research, which was published in 2014 with the title The Operatic and the Everyday in Post-war Italian Film Melodrama (Edinburgh University Press). I have published on Italian cinema and on popular genres and aesthetics in the cinema, and write for a range of publications including as a reviewer and critic. I have taught in Universities in the UK and in Rome, and I have been at the University of Southampton since September, 2015. I teach on the Introduction to Hollywood and European Cinema modules, Film Noir, and American Cinema since 1965.

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Research interests

My main principle specialisms are in melodrama studies and Italian cinema. I have research interests in the aesthetics of cinema and film form, in horror and serial killer cinema, as well as issues of popular culture, genre, realism and methodologies of film analysis. I have a developing interest in Latin American and especially Brazilian cinema, as well as in journey narratives in cinema, and am developing a large-scale research project on theatricality as an idea that informs film.

Articles

Bayman, L. (2017). Retro quality and historical consciousness in contemporary European television. Alphaville Journal of Film and Media, (12), 1-19.

Bayman, L. (2016). Beyond the pleasure principle: exploring the limits of a pervasive term. New Cinemas Journal of Contemporary Film.

Bayman, L. (2015). Profili critici: De Benedetti e Perilli. Quaderni del CSCI.

Review

Bayman, L. (2017). Conference report: 'The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh and the Giallo: An International Film Conference, Rome, 7-9 June'. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 5(2), 273-277. DOI: 10.1386/jicms.5.2.273_7

Book

Bayman, L. (2014). The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama. Edinburgh, GB: Edinburgh University Press.

Book Chapters

Bayman, L. (2017). Isles of fright: Gothic tropics and island horror. In A. Cooper, & R. Meeuf (Eds.), Projecting the World: Representing the "Foreign" in Classical Hollywood. Detroit, US: Wayne State University Press.

Bayman, L. (2017). Italian comedy and popularity. In A Companion to Italian Cinema. (Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas). Hoboken, US: Wiley-Blackwell.

Bayman, L. (2016). The sorrow and the piety: post-war Italian cinema and the rethinking of melodrama. In C. Gledhill, & L. Williams (Eds.), Melodrama Unbound. New York, US: Columbia University Press.

Bayman, L. (2014). Fellini’s Rome. In G. Solomons (Ed.), World Film Locations: Rome. (World Film Locations). Intellect.

Bayman, L., & Pinazza, N. (2014). Foreword. In Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Globalised Era. Palgrave Macmillan.

Bayman, L. (2014). Something else besides a man: melodrama and the Maschietto in post-war Italian cinema. In D. Hipkins, & R. Pitt (Eds.), New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema. (pp. 169-188). (Italian Modernities; Vol. 20). Bern, CH: Peter Lang.

I teach on the Introduction to Hollywood and European Cinema modules, Film Noir, and American Cinema since 1965.

Dr Louis Bayman
Film
Humanities
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
SO17 1BF
United Kingdom
Room Numbers: 65/1073

Email: L.D.Bayman@soton.ac.uk

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