Dr Helen List  

Helen List is the Admissions Tutor on the BA Film and Media Studies. Her current research interests lie with the applications of animal subject-matter within children's picture books and with 20th century children's television. She is also working with the interactions between literary and media cultures in the study of later 20th century childhood and with the framing and the applications of the visual text within interactive media situations.

Short Papers

14th January 2011 Mecssa 11 Conference (University of Salford)
Paper: "Women and Children as Trans-generational Viewers of Pre-school Television: Playschool (BBC) in the early 1970s in the United Kingdom."

2nd July 2010 Manchester Children's Book Festival (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Paper: "Reading landscapes in the picture book: a quiet contemplation or a flow of movement"

24th April 2010 Conference: Modernism & Utopias: Convergences in the Arts (Birmingham)
Paper: ‘Small Utopias: United Kingdom Primary Schools with a Late Modernist Context’

6th January 2010 Meccsa 10 Conference (LSE)
Paper "With Added Feminism: Communicating Gender Roles in the Online Newspaper"

17th January 2009 Roundtable Event: Key debates in Children's Literature Studies (Newcastle University)
Paper - "Visualizing Animalism in the Pre-literature of the 1960s."

29th August 2007 Conference Aesthetics of Trash: Reassessing Animation and the Comic (Manchester Metropolitan Univ.)
Paper – “Managing Solitude and Self-Awareness in the construction of Mike Mingola’s Hellboy Strange Places.”

13th June 2007 Conference Moves Screen Choreography (Manchester Metropolitan Univ.)
Paper – “Wounding Passages of Honour: the duel form in historical action cinema.”

September 1999 Contributor to Scottish Sculpture Workshop artist's residency publication (Lumsden, Aberdeenshire) "Fire in the Land."

Affiliation

Higher Education Academy - Fellow