Filipa Antunes

Media industries (film, television, streaming, video games, YouTube, podcasting. Focus on regulation, classification and self-regulation practices; promotion and branding including paratexts; franchising; genre markets and audiences)

Genre (markets, promotion, reception, trends and cycles, narrative. Special expertise on children’s horror, family entertainment, horror, animation)

Childhood and family media cultures

Media storytelling and screenwriting

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]

Current Teaching:

• Cultural and Creative Industries
• Video Games
• Video Production
• The Business of Film and Television
• Ways to Knowledge: Disciplines and Practices

Past Teaching: Animation; Children's Television and Film Cultures; Analysing Television; Analysing Film; Visual Cultures; Studies in Film History; Humanities: the Key Concepts; Crime and Punishment On Screen