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Miss Eve Bennett

Job: PhD candidate

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Media and Communication

̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ group(s): CATH ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Centre

Address: ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, The Gateway, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH

T: n/a

E: eve.bennett@email.dmu.ac.uk

W: www.dmu.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/cathi/index.aspx

 

Personal profile

Eve is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the Cinema and Television History ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Centre. Her PhD research focuses on the representation of gender in post-9/11 American apocalyptic television. Previously, while studying for her MA in Cult Film and Television, she worked as the administrator and research assistant at the Brunel University Cult Film Archive. 

̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ group affiliations

Key research outputs

Bennett, E. (2012) Techno-Butterfly: Orientalism Old and New in Battlestar Galactica. Science Fiction Film and Television, 5 (1) pp. 23-46 

Bennett, E. (2011) Deconstructing the Dream Factory: Personal Fantasy and Corporate Manipulation in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association, 9 (1) [online]

̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ interests/expertise

  • The apocalypse in popular culture
  • Gender in film and television
  • British and American science fiction film and television
  • The Gothic
  • Cult studies and fan activity

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) Film and Literature (2005), University of Warwick
  • MA Cult Film and Television (2008), Brunel University 

Honours and awards

Mr. Pointy Award for the best short work in Whedon Studies in 2011 for the article ‘Deconstructing the Dream Factory: Personal Fantasy and Corporate Manipulation in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse’ (conferred July 2012)

 

Conference attendance

Bennett, E. (2012) Deus ex Machina: AI Apocalypticism in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles [paper]. Don’t Panic: The Apocalypse in Theory and Culture, University of Kent, May 25-26

Bennett, E. (2008) When Starbuck Became Stardoe: Reimagining Cult TV [paper]. Cine-Excess II, ICA (Brunel University), May 1-3 
Eve Bennett