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Daniel O’Brien
Daniel O’Brien is a writer and lecturer specializing in the cinema. He has contributed to various journals, such as Film International, along with reference works, including encyclopaedias, dictionaries and three volumes of the Directory of World Cinema (Intellect), on Italy and Argentina, and written books on such subjects as Clint Eastwood, Frank Sinatra, British science fiction, Hong Kong horror movies, the Hannibal Lecter books and films, Paul Newman and Daniel Craig. He is currently film tutor in medical humanities at the University of Southampton. His research interests encompass representations of masculinity and ethnicity on film, and popular European cinema. Recent academic publications include the articles ‘A vintage year for scoundrels: Shapes of villainy in Adam Adamant Lives!’ (Intensities 2014) and ‘Like a child playing dress-up? Genre, authorship and pastiche in Doomsday’ (Frames Cinema Journal 2014), the monograph Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film (Palgrave 2014) and the chapter ‘Latin lover or Latin(o) loser? Rodrigo Santoro and the Hollywood stereotype’ for the edited collection Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema (Berghahn 2017).