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Reece Goodall

I am one of the Directors of Student Experience and Progression for the Faculty of Arts, and the Student Experience and Engagement Co-ordinator for the Department of Chemistry. I have completed a PhD in French Studies on contemporary horror media in France, funded by an SMLC Doctoral Fellowship, under the supervision of Prof Mary Harrod and Dr Douglas Morrey.

Research Interests

French/US horror cinema, and the history of horror cinema

The interplay between popular media, news and politics

Film music

Parody in film and television

Game studies

Conference Papers

'We interrupt this programme to bring you… uncanny animation and horror intertexts in Courage the Cowardly Dog' - Youth & Horror, University of Birmingham (July 2025)

Terrifier 2025 - University of Warwick (May 2025) - organiser

''My palate will die happy' - sensorial viewership in The Menu' - BAFTSS 2025, University of Warwick (March 2025)

Publications

Reece Goodall (ed.), Horror Spoofs and Parody: Dying of Laughter (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, forthcoming)

___, French Horror: Media, industry and culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025)

    Teaching and Responsibilities

    2024-25

    CH169 - Beyond Science: Collaborative Student-Led Challenges (group mentor)

    FR121 - The Story of Modern France (lectures on Jacques Audiard/Un héros très discret and Ladj Ly/Les Misérables)

    FR268 - French Cinema and Society from the First to the Second World War (module convenor)

    LL234 - French 2 (seminar tutor)

    LN323 - Mediterranean Cinema (lectures and seminars on Pépé le Moko/Algeria and Transit/Marseille)

    Previous

    FR335 - Gender and Representation in French Film and Media since 1970 (lecture and seminar on Julia Ducournau/Grave)

    FR340 - States of the Nation: French Cinema & Society from 1995 to the present (seminars on Lucie Aubrac and François Ozon)

    Supervisory experience

    URSS

    • Artificial Intelligence in Horror: How Are Societal Attitudes Towards Technology Reflected in the Depiction of AI in Horror Media from the 1960s to the Present? (2025)
    • Dying of Laughter: exploring horror parody (2025)
    • An Examination of Telepathy Represented on Screen (2025)
    • The Puzzle Video Game: A Taxonomy (2025)
    • The Uncanny Valley Effect: Generative AI as a Medium of Negotiating Digital Existentialism in Gen Z, Through the Lens of Surrealist Horror in AI Art (2025; with Dr Robert O’Toole)
    • Revisiting the French Cinematic Extremity – How National Identity and Political Anxieties Materialise On-Screen (2023)

    World CUR (2023; with Mary Harrod) - project on comparative legal systems in USA and the UK

    Memberships/Associations

    The Fear Network (2024-)

    Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick (2023-2025)

    BAFTSS French and Francophone Screen Studies Special Interest Group (co-convenor; 2020-)

    BAFTSS Horror Studies Special Interest Group (2020-)

    Producing the Post-National Popular network (2019-2023)