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Dr Louis Bayman

Senior Tutor (Semester 1)

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 a range of areas to do with Italian cinema, popular genres and aesthetics. More recently I have been concentrating on political analyses of retro, neoliberalism and nostalgia in contemporary cinema, journey narratives on film, as well as writing reviews for a range of publications. I am developing a new research project on experiences of time, progress and disorientation in contemporary cinema. I have taught in Universities in the UK and in Rome, and have taught at the University of Southampton since September, 2015. I teach on the Introduction to Hollywood and European Cinema modules, Film Noir, Film, Realism and Reality, World Cinema and Horror modules.

Post-war Italian Film Melodrama

World Film: Sao Paulo

Popular Italian Cinema

World Cinema: Brazil

World Cinema: Italy

Journeys on Screen

Research

Publications

Teaching

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Research interests

I am currently developing a new research project on new experiences of time, as understood through analysis of contemporary narrative cinema. My established research interests are in the aesthetics of cinema, film genre, Italian cinema and contemporary cinema. These have taken the form of investigations into post-war Italian melodrama, horror and serial killer cinema, political cinema, neoliberalism in contemporary Hollywood and retro and nostalgia in contemporary European film and television.

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Articles

Bayman, L. (2019). Can there be a progressive nostalgia? Layering time in pride's retro-heritage. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), 1-30. DOI: 10.16995/olh.324
Bayman, L. (2019). Performance anxiety: the competitive self and Hollywood’s post-crash films of cruelty. New Review of Film and Television Studies. DOI: 10.1080/17400309.2019.1622878
Bayman, L. (2017). Beyond the pleasure principle: exploring the limits of a pervasive term. New Cinemas Journal of Contemporary Film, 14(2), 123-134. DOI: 10.1386/ncin.14.2.123_1
Bayman, L. (2017). Retro quality and historical consciousness in contemporary European television. Alphaville Journal of Film and Media, (12), 78-96.
Bayman, L. (2015). Profili critici: De Benedetti e Perilli. Quaderni del CSCI.

Book

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

Book Chapters

Bayman, L. (Accepted/In press). Family therapy: Harold Ramis' Analyze This and the evolution of the gangster. In D. Renga (Ed.), Mafia Movies: A Reader (2nd ed.). University of Toronto Press.
Bayman, L., & Pinazza, N. (Accepted/In press). Introduction. In L. Bayman, & N. Pinazza (Eds.), Journeys on Film: Theory, Ethics and Aesthetics Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Bayman, L. (Accepted/In press). Sic transit: The serial killer road movie. In L. Bayman, & N. Pinazza (Eds.), Journeys on Screen: Theory, Ethics and Aesthetics Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Bayman, L. (2018). 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. (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. (2017). L'esspressivita melodrammatica del corpo neorealista. In G. Carluccio, E. Morreale, & M. Pierini (Eds.), Intorno al neorealismo: Voci, contesti, linguaggi e culture dell'italia del dopoguerra (pp. 175-183). Milan: Scalpendi editore.
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.

Letter/Editorial

Bayman, L., Gundle, S., & Schoonover, K. (2018). Rome, open city: rupture and return. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 6(3), 295-300. DOI: 10.1386/jicms.6.3.295_2

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

I teach on the Introduction to Hollywood and European Cinema modules, Film Noir, Film Realism and Reality, World Cinema and Horror Cinema.

Dr Louis Bayman
Film
Humanities
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
SO17 1BF
United Kingdom

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

Room Number: 65/1073

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