Tim Snelson

Media Studies; Digital Media; Film Studies; Media History; Crime and Media; Media and Mental Health; Youth (Sub)cultures; Audiences and Cinemagoing; Media Cycles and Genres; Hollywood; British Cinema; Material Culture Studies;  Screen Heritage; Medical Humanities 

Tim Snelson studied for an AHRC funded MA (2005) and PhD (2009) in Film Studies at UEA. From 2008 he was a lecturer in media and culture in the School of Political, Social and International Studies at UEA, before moving into his current role as associate professor in media history in the School of Media, Languages and Communication Studies. 

Tim’s research addresses the relationships between media and social histories, presents and futures, focusing particularly on intermediality and cross-media cycles; media and film genres (horror, true crime, thrillers); media and mental health; crime and media; audiences and cinemagoing; gender and popular media; material culture and screen heritage; and youth (sub)cultures.

He has published articles on media, cultural and medical history in journals including Media History, Cultural Studies, Journal of British Cinema and Television and the History of the Human Sciences, and a number of edited collections. He has monographs titled Phantom Ladies: Hollywood Horror and the Home Front (Rutgers: 2015) and Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long-1960s (Edinburgh University Press: 2024).

Tim is on the editorial board of the Science Museum Group Journal and member and regular contributor to the international research network of The History of Movie-going, Exhibition and Reception (HoMER). 

He is currently co-investigating a research council-funded project on the intersecting material cultures of media and mental health with the Science Museum Group. See the Demons of the Mind project webiste here. 

• Media histories and new cinema history 
• Digital media, film, television, radio, print media, music 
• Intermediality and cross-media cycles and trends
• Crime and media 
• Media and mental health
• Material culture, archives and screen heritage 
• Audiences and reception studies 
• Youth (sub)cultures
• Popular media and gender 

• Film Studies: History, Theory, Criticism (MA)
• Media Audiences (MA)
• Fantasy Genres (MA)
• Media History (UG)
• Theorising Media and Culture (UG)
• Crime and Punishment Onscreen (UG)
• Teenage Kicks: Media, Youth and Subculture (UG)