Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia

Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research in the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is widely published on postwar British cinema, masculinity, and stardom. Samantha Holland is Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research interests are broadly gender, leisure, subcultures and popular culture, utilising feminist, ethnographic qualitative methods, and including fashion history, vintage and second-hand, home and daily routines, and embodiment and body practices. Steven Gerrard is Reader in Film at the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK. A firm fan of all things low culture, Steven has written two monographs entitled The Carry On Films and The Modern British Horror Film.