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John Quinn
John is a lecturer in screen and performance at the University of the West of Scotland. With a focus on popular film and television, John’s recent publications have explored professional wrestling as an intersection between transmedia storytelling and high concept cinema, offered multimodal discourse analysis as a means of understanding the abstracted relations that pervade and sculpt sports entertainment and analysed fan curation of the Alien cinematic mythos via morphogenetic YouTube paratexts. John’s forthcoming publications focus on representations of masculinity, situating the Deadpool cinematic franchise as an expression of the complex ‘crisis’ of masculinity, correlating ideational populism with the aesthetics of masculinity in Joker (2019), analysing the intersection of gendered demagogues and the 1980s action cinema, proposing that Craig Mazin’s Chernobyl (2019) functions as an interchange between the contemporary representations of masculinity in western popular culture and the representations of masculinity as articulated by the Reaganite cinema of the 1980s, and examining the supergendered modes of masculinity at play in Avengers: Endgame (2019).
Contact: Room 2.006 UWS Ayr Campus, Ayr, Scotland KA80SX, UK.