Filipa Antunes

Dr Filipa Antunes is Lecturer in Humanities in the Interdisciplinary Institute, where she specialises in media industries and culture. She teaches across the Liberal Arts, Film, Television, and Media degrees, as well as the Humanities Foundation Year. 

Filipa is author of Children Beware! Childhood, Horror and the PG-13 Rating (McFarland, 2020), a study of the production, promotion, and reception of children’s horror media in the 1980s and 1990s, and of its links to the introduction of the PG-13 classification. Filipa is co-editor of The Nightmare Before Christmas (with Brittany Eldridge and Rebecca Williams, Bloomsbury, 2025) and has published in Television & New Media, Journal of Film and Media, Journal of Children and Media, Horror Studies, and others.

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Media industries (including regulation and classification, promotion and branding, paratexts, genre discourses)

Genre studies (with a focus on children’s horror, family entertainment, horror, animation)

Childhood and family media cultures

Current Teaching:

Cultural and Creative Industries

Visual Cultures

Ways to Knowledge: Disciplines and Practices

Past Teaching:

Animation

Children's Television and Film Cultures

Analysing Television

Analysing Film

Studies in Film History

Humanities: the Key Concepts

Crime and Punishment On Screen