Research output per year
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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.
Get in touch: [email protected]
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
Doctor of Philosophy, Film, Television and Media Studies, University of East Anglia
Award Date: 1 Jan 2016
Master of Arts, Film Studies, University College London
Award Date: 1 Jan 2011
Master of Arts, Screenwriting, London Film School
Award Date: 1 Jan 2009
Bachelor of Arts, Communication Sciences (specialism in Journalism), Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Award Date: 1 Jan 2008
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter