Dr Reece Goodall
Dr Reece Goodall
Student Engagement and Experience Co-ordinator
Biography
Dr Reece Goodall is the Student Engagement and Experience Co-ordinator for the Department of Chemistry, where he supports the Director of Student Experience in running initiatives to facilitate student belonging and enhance the experience at Warwick.
Previously, he was a Director of Student Experience in the Faculty of Arts at Warwick, where he 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 Prof Douglas Morrey.
Reece's research interests include French/US horror cinema, the interplay between popular media, news and politics, parody in film and television, and game studies. He is the co-convenor of the BAFTSS French and Francophone Screen Studies Special Interest Group (with Prof Kate Ince).
Reece Goodall (ed.), Horror Spoofs and Parody: Dying of Laughter (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, forthcoming October 2026)
___, French Horror: Industry, Society and Media (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming June 2026)
Reece Goodall and Simon Bacon (eds.), The Everyday Apocalypse: A Companion (Lausanne: Peter Lang, forthcoming 2027)
Alice Tremea and Reece Goodall, Critical Perspectives on Tobe Hooper (London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2027)
Reece Goodall, 'Fact, fiction, and Conjuring a spin-off: narrative verisimilitude in Annabelle Comes Home (2019)' in Todd K. Platts (ed.), The "True" Case Files of the Warrens: Essays on The Conjuring Franchise (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)
___, ‘“I’ve seen this movie before”: marketing the horror legacy sequel’ in C. Mann and K. Foster (eds.), It’s Always Someone You Know: Legacy Sequels in the Horror Genre (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press: forthcoming)
___, ‘Mann and the Everyman: James Stewart, American Masculinity and Hollywood Stardom’ in R. Munro (ed.), ReFocus: The Films of Anthony Mann (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)
___, ‘Reevaluating Carry On Screaming’s (1966) Role in the Horror Parody Canon’ in R. Dhillon (ed.), Carry On and/as History (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
___, ‘“Skip the drama, stay with mama”: a close analysis of anti-motherhood in Tangled’s “Mother Knows Best”’ in B. Thomas (ed.), Representations of Parenting and Parenthood in Disney-Animated Films (forthcoming)
___, ‘‘Your sudden death question’: quiz show aesthetics as narrative in ‘3 By 3’ in B. Broadribb (ed.), Inside No. 9: Televisual Experiments in Form, Genre and Affect (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2027)
___, ‘Race, class and the Goal of the Dead: marginalised identities in French zombie cinema’ in L. Flores Ohlson, E. Tonkin and C. Heffernan (eds.), Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2025)
___, ‘Vampire Capitalism: Daybreakers and American Bloodsuckers’ in S. Bacon (ed.), The Vampire States of America (Abingdon: Routledge, 2025)
___, 'Zombie Westerns' in Simon Bacon (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
___, 'Alexandre Aja: a post-national genre auteur' in Mary Harrod and Raphaëlle Moine (eds.), Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), pp. 89-105
___, 'Folk Horror in Inside No. 9: ‘Mr. King’ and Contending Eco-narratives' in Simon Bacon (ed.), Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023), pp. 303-316
___, 'Teenage Alienation and Fractured Identities: Re-Evaluating Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take' in Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and John Darokwski (eds.), A Critical Companion to Wes Craven (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023), pp. 91-104
___, 'Vampires and the Western' in Simon Bacon (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 1-14 -link
Sophie Aimée Ahlemeyer and Reece Goodall, ‘The unholy fusion of reproductive futurism and toxic nostalgia in Immaculate and The First Omen’ in S. Bacon (ed.), Toxic Nostalgia: Undead Memory in the 21stCentury (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024), pp. 117-130
Reece Goodall and Mary Harrod, 'Netflix Original Films and European Auteur Cinema: 'Universal' 'Particularities in Alexandre Aja's Oxygen' in Christopher Meir and Roderik Smits (eds.), European Cinema in the Streaming Era: Policy, Platforms, and Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), pp. 281-299
Alice Tremea and Reece Goodall, ‘Stephen Sommers: genre hybridity, popular auteurism and popcorn movies’ in M. Brittany and S. Woodward (eds.), No Harm Ever Came from Reading a Book: Critical Essays on The Mummy Franchise (University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming)
Reece Goodall, 'A Haunting in Alola - ghost narratives in the Pokémon franchise', Horror Homeroom (2025) -link
___, 'Wallace and Gromit and the case for Claymation in a world of AI', Animation Studies 2.0 (2025) -link
___, ‘“Watch carefully what is about to happen”: Les Documents Interdits and the interrogation of France’s cultural memory’, Horror Homeroom, Special Issue 7 (2023): 37-45 -link
___, 'Opening the Cabinet: Composing a Score for Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari', Weimar Film Network (2021) -link
___, Ralph Fiennes vocal stardom series, Animation Studies 2.0 (2021)
I have supervised the following URSS projects:
- 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
If you're interested in doing a URSS project with me, please do get in touch!
I have previously taught on the following modules:
- 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)
- 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)
- LL234 - French 2 (seminar tutor)
- LN323 - Mediterranean Cinema (lectures and seminars on Pépé le Moko/Algeria and Transit/Marseille)
'Analogue 'reality' in the Fears to Fathom games' - Nightmare26, The Northern School of Art (April 2024)
'In the Mouth of Male Madness: Masculine Decay in Brian Yuzna’s The Dentist Series' - Cine-Excess 2025: Re-Animated: Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects (October 2025)
'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)
'Freddy's Scares and Scores: A Musical Analysis of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise' - A Nightmare on Elm Street @ 40, University of Nottingham (November 2024)
''You fuck with my family, you die!': monstrous fathers in the films of Radio Silence' - Cine-Excess: Blood Ties: The Family in Cult and Horror Cinema, Birmingham City University (October 2024)
'Reevaluating Carry On Screaming's (1966) Role in the Horror Parody Canon' - Carry On Conferencing, University of Warwick (May 2024)
''We all go a little mad sometimes': re-evaluating depictions of mental illness in the Psycho sequels' - Nightmare24, The Northern School of Art (April 2024)
‘The most reverent and holy slimeballs’: religious commentary in The Exorcist and Repossessed' - Cine-Excess 2023: Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject, Birmingham City University (October 2023)
'Histoires de la sorcière: narratives of witchcraft in Marianne (2019)' - Witchcraft and the Supernatural in Belief, Practice and Depiction, Romancing the Gothic (August 2023)
'A Titane of French horror: an auteurial and genre analysis of Julia Ducournau' - Fear 2000: Horror Uncaged, Sheffield Hallam University (July 2023)
‘Untold stories: positioning Candyman through its unmade sequels’ - Candyman and the whole damn swarm, Sheffield Hallam University (October 2022)
'"I've seen this movie before": marketing the requel' - Fear 2000: Horror Undying, Sheffield Hallam University (July 2022)
'What's 'European' about European horror?' - Weekday Night Bites, BAFTSS Horror Studies (October 2021) - organiser and chair -link
'Alexandre Aja: a post-national genre auteur II?' - Global Gallicisms II: Circulating Frenchness through Mainstream Film and Television, University of Warwick/University of Paris (September 2021)
'La Rage du Démon: rewriting France’s history of horror' - Fear 2000: Horror Unbound, Sheffield Hallam University (September 2021)
'La nuit a dévoré la France: zombie cinema and French national identity' - Theorizing Zombiism 2: Undead Again, University of Gothenburg (July 2021)
'Alexandre Aja: a post-national genre auteur?' - NECS 2021, University of Palermo (June 2021)
'Fear and the banlieue in French horror cinema' - SMLC Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick (January 2021)
''I was a lonesome cowboy': the Western and nostalgia in the Toy Story series' - Genre/Nostalgia, University of Hertfordshire (January 2021)
'Taking The Good Fight to Trump: impeachment and the 25th Amendment as narrative devices' - Trump, Television and the Media: From Drama to "Fake News" to Tweetstorms, London Metropolitan University (October 2020)
'"It's Your Crazy Mother!": maternal themes in the films of Maury and Bustillo' - Fear 2000: contemporary horror worldwide, Sheffield Hallam University (June 2019)
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)