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Dr Iain Robert Smith

Lecturer

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3095
Email : Iain.Smith@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Media, Culture and Language
Office location : Queen's Building 019

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Qualifications

BA (Glasgow), MA (Nottingham), PhD (Nottingham)

Research Interests

Global Hollywood; Popular World Cinemas; Adaptation and Appropriation; New Media; Film Censorship; American Independent Cinema; Cult Film and Television.

Publications

"Beam me up, Ömer: Transnational media flow and the cultural politics of the Turkish Star Trek remake," Velvet Light Trap 61 (2008)
"The Exorcist in Istanbul: Processes of transcultural appropriation within Turkish Popular Cinema," Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 5:1 (2008)
Editor of Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation eBook. Nottingham: Scope, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9564641-0-1, 236 ps.
"A Distorted, Incompetent Piece of Trash": International Guerillas (1990) and the Rushdie affair,” Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture. Ana Mendes. London: Routledge, Forthcoming.
"You're really a miniature Bond": Weng Weng and the transnational dimensions of cult film stardom," The Cult of Personality: Constructing and Defining the Cult Film Star. Eds. Kate Egan and Sarah Thomas. London: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming.
"When Spiderman became Spiderbabe: Pornographic appropriation and the political economy of the softcore spoof genre," Peep Shows: Cult Visual Erotica Ed. Xavier Mendik. London: Wallflower Press, 2010
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