Key expertise:
Film and media archives
Archives and materiality
Archival gaps, silences, and absences
Counter archives
I am the current convenor of the Archive Research Community at SHU. My archival expertise and interests are focused on archival gaps and silences; the role of archives in the production of knowledge and history; archival materiality; the archive as a subject of research; the concept of reading against the archival grain; and archival absences and marginalised identites. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. I co-convene the BAFTSS Special Interest Group Archives and Archival Methods. I am currently completing a book on archival materiality titled Archive Histories: An Archaeology of the Stanley Kubrick Archive, contracted with Liverpool University Press.
Notable archival publications:
- ‘The exploitation of Sue Lyon: Lolita (1962), archival research, and questions for film history’, Feminist Media Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1996422.
- ‘Problems with Kubrick: reframing Stanley Kubrick through archival research’, New Review of Film and Television Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2022.2091888.
- ‘Labouring on A Clockwork Orange (1971): finding the voices of creative, technical, and administrative workers in the Stanley Kubrick Archive’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, https://doi-org.hallam.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/01439685.2022.2018560.
- Unproduction Studies and the American Film Industry – a book that considers the fledgling field of unproduction studies and archival methods.
Staff profile: https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/james-fenwick
Twitter: @JamesFenwick87